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Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville

Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb chooses the wartime spy, Krystyna Skarbek, AKA - Christine Granville. With Matthew Parris. From 2016.

Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb, former head of British special forces, champions the life of wartime spy Christine Granville, assisted by her biographer Clare Mulley.

Christine, born Kristina Skarbek, was a glamorous swashbuckling heroine who skied into occupied Poland to distribute Allied propaganda, and parachuted into southern France to work with the Resistance after D Day. Murdered after the war by a jilted lover, she is little known today - thanks partly to the efforts of a group of men she had been close to, who formed a committee to "protect her reputation" from suggestions of sexual impropriety.

Matthew Parris chairs the discussion.

First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in 2016.

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30 minutes

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Sun 21 Feb 2021 05:30

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Presenter Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest Graeme Lamb

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  • Tue 3 May 2016 16:30
  • Fri 6 May 2016 23:00
  • Thu 18 Feb 2021 18:30
  • Fri 19 Feb 2021 00:30
  • Sat 20 Feb 2021 07:30
  • Sat 20 Feb 2021 17:30
  • Sun 21 Feb 2021 05:30

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