History
Diana Mara Henry on I Am André
Journalist and author Diana Mara Henry discusses the story of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann and the process behind her new book.
Diana, many congratulations on your new book, the story of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann. How did you find out about this extraordinary man? His son and I were classmates at Harvard, though we never met at university there. When Michel discovered, in our 25th reunion...
Episode 180
A Suspicion of Spies, by Tim Spicer
A biography of the spy Biffy Dunderdale offers an invaluable insight into the key role he played in MI6.
Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale often features as a daring bit-part player in World War II espionage books, but now this extraordinary character takes centre stage in Tim Spicer’s insightful biography. Dunderdale was an iron fist in a velvet glove. He combined charm with...
Episode 179
I Am André
After three decades of research, Diana Mara Henry discovers the man behind the aliases.
I Am André Cher Camarade ... mon capitaine ... mon lieutenant ... Monsieur Le Neveu ... 31AQ ... MI6 #99421 ... #4368 at Natzweiler and #101739 at Dachau ... Martin ... Turquoise ... interprète ... Herr Dolmetscher ... 0419064, French Liaison Officer ... Agent from C...
The Wedding to End All Weddings – 20 November 1947
Historian Tessa Dunlop examines the world of the late 1940s, and what lessons there are for today’s royals.
The Wedding to End All Weddings – 20 November 1947 Big puffy fairytale nuptials that establish a new royal name overnight - Diana, Fergie, Kate, Meghan - are now considered standard fare but a large celebrity-style wedding is a relatively recent confection. Pomp and...
Turkey: Birth of a Nation
The fall of the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of Turkey, now a major player in European and Middle East affairs.
At its greatest extant under the rule of Suleyman the Magnificent in the 1500s, the Ottoman Empire ran from the walls of Vienna (to which it laid siege in 1529 all the way across eastern Europe and the Middle East to Baghdad and Basra. From Algiers the tughra of the...
Episode 178
