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Hidden Histories: Spies, Secrets and Survival

03/05/2026
60 min
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Extraordinary true stories of espionage come to life as Daria Santini presents A Woman Named Edith, the first full biography of Edith Tudor Hart, a Jewish-Austrian exile, photographer, anti-fascist, and Soviet agent who recruited Kim Philby yet eluded capture.  Drawing on newly declassified material, Helen Fry returns with The White Lady, a major history of Britain’s key secret service networks in the First and Second World Wars, revealing the hidden world of spies, secrets, and survival.

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Daria Santini

Daria Santini is an independent scholar and writer. She was lecturer in German language and literature at the University of Oxford for fifteen years and is the author of The Exiles: Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London.
David Horspool

David Horspool is an editor on the TLS, responsible for history, archaeology and sport.
Helen Fry

Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of more than twenty books on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the social history of World War II – most recently The White Lady and Women in Intelligence. She appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts and has been involved in numerous documentaries. Image © Greg Morrison

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Hidden Histories: Spies, Secrets and Survival

03/05/2026
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Daria Santini

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Daria Santini is an independent scholar and writer. She was lecturer in German language and literature at the University of Oxford for fifteen years...

David Horspool

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David Horspool is an editor on the TLS, responsible for history, archaeology and sport.

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Helen Fry

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Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of more than twenty books on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the social history of World...