How does an upper-middle-class girl from a nice part of Berlin end up a hardcore Marxist? Well, growing up in Weimar Germany will do that to you. From Germany to the USA and all the way to China, we begin Ursula's journey towards becoming one of Stalin's greatest spies.
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We complete our anthology of World War 2 spies with two Russian émigrés recruited by the Abwehr to spy on Britain, but with very different motivations, in Lily Sergueiew and Vera Schalburg, and the shop girl from Stockwell, Violette Szabo, who held off the 2nd SS Panzer Division single-handedly.
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We kick off a two-part anthology following legendary women who operated at the absolute extremes of the Second World War, from Baker Street’s chain-smoking chief of staff, Vera Atkins and cosmetics-toting guerrilla commander, Pearl Witherington, to the traitor Mathilde Carré, who traded eighty comrades for a fur coat.
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Virginia heads south into the Haute Loire, where she will deal with some titanic egos, drive trains into gorges and liberate an entire department without any Allied back-up - before facing the far scarier prospect of peacetime.
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After escaping Spain and returning to Occupied France as an OSS operative, Virginia orchestrates a high-stakes campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare to pave the way for D-Day.
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Fresh from her greatest success, the honeymoon phase is officially over for Virginia Hall. Under attack from all sides and with her network penetrated, she is forced to risk everything on a treacherous winter escape.
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Virginia arrives in Occupied Europe and sets Vichy France alight, using a unique network made up of brothel madams, spinster antiquarians and corset-merchants. And when the suits in Baker Street try to pull her out, she plans one of the most audacious prison breaks of the war.
Dismissed by her own government as a one-legged clerk who "talked too much," Virginia Hall traded the stifling confines of the Maryland elite for 1920s Paris and then the sound of the guns in France in 1940.
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In the heart of occupied Paris, a pacifist with a radio suitcase becomes the last operator standing—and the Gestapo’s most elusive target.
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Deemed "not overburdened with brains" and morally opposed to lying, Noor Inayat Khan was the last person you'd send into Nazi-occupied France.
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She survived blizzards, the Gestapo and firing squads, but can Britain's first female World War II spy survive the peace?
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Christine Granville parachutes into occupied France, trading shadows for the front lines, and risks everything on a daring bluff when all hope seems lost.
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Christine trades the frozen peaks of Eastern Europe for the dusty intrigue of Cairo - where her biggest enemy wasn't the Nazis, but her own side.
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In the coldest winter in living memory, a glamorous Polish countess trades high society for high-altitude espionage, skiing into occupied territory to become Britain's first female special agent of the Second World War.
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Finishing up our series of episodes on First World War female espionage, we look at 3 spies from Belgium, Germany and France: Marthe Cnockeart McKenna, Elsbeth Schragmuller and Louise de Bettignies.
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After weeks of relentless interrogation and Mata Hari faces a military tribunal and a trial for her life.
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Mata Hari makes a desperate gamble to set up a future for herself—only to discover her own handler, Captain Ladoux, has set the most devastating trap of all.
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Mata Hari captivates audiences with her exotic dance that fuses sensuality and spirituality. But as her fame rises, the shadows of her past and the looming spectre of World War I threaten to ensnare her in a perilous web of intrigue and betrayal.
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The tragic origins of a legend: a privileged childhood followed by devastating bankruptcy, family betrayal, and a life of scandal - and that's before she even took up dancing.
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Tapped on the shoulder on board a ship to England, Gabrielle Petit is thrust into the dangerous world of World War I espionage.
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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women have been the driving force behind history for millennia, from female Pharoahs, warrior princesses and pirates, to the revolutionaries who sought to topple the male-dominated political systems of their day. From host of the popular 'Queens of England Podcast', The Other Half tells the forgotten and ignored stories of the most powerful and influential women in history.
