This week's episode is a chat with espionage author Helen Fry, about her new paperback Spymaster, the story of Thomas Kendrick. It's an extraordinary story of one man’s efforts against the Gestapo, and his incredible achievement in saving thousands from the holocaust.

He was also station chief of MI6 in Austria, and as we’ll hear, came across two of the great British double agents of the last century, Kim Philby and George Blake. Not only that, but he was also involved in the rather murky episode when Rudolf Hess, then Hitler’s Deputy, flew to Scotland, apparently on his own, in an attempt to make peace overtures with the British government.

Helen Fry Links

Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6

Vienna's Third Man Museum

Helen on Twitter

Aspects of History Links

Agatha Christie's Greatest Mystery - Aspects of History

Five Questions on War - Aspects of History

Ollie on Twitter

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