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Death Be Not Proud: Part 1

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Elizabeth Nicholas
The quest for the story of seven women who had been wartime agents of SOE, dramatised for radio in six episodes by Robert Barr
with Mary Wimbush as Elizabeth Nicholas

In May 1944 a train left occupied Paris for Germany. In two reserved compartments, handcuffed and under guard, were eight women agents of SOE being transferred from Fresnes to a prison at Karlsruhe. Only one of these women came back, Odette Sansom, GC. What happened to the other seven?

Contributors

Author:
Elizabeth Nicholas
Dramatised by:
Robert Barr
Producer:
Charles Maxwell
Elizabeth Nicholas:
Mary Wimbush
Also taking part:
Garard Green
Also taking part:
Geoffrey Wincott.
Also taking part:
Noel Hood
Also taking part:
John Baddeley
Also taking part:
Wilfred Babbage
Source: Radio Times

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