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Bernie Bluestein, Seymour Nussenbaum and George Dramis are part of a secret army unit with one job: to put on a show for an audience who wants to kill them. Show more
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Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for tales of deception, acts of resistance and courage.
29 minutes
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Two eccentric French artists risk their lives to perform an extraordinary act of resistance on the island of Jersey. Show more
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In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbour attack, then five-year-old George Takei and his family are removed from their home and imprisoned without trial. Show more
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His codename was Garbo. The identity of one of World War Two’s most successful double agents, a man who diverted the German Army away from the D-Day landings, is finally revealed. Show more
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Bela Hazan, a young Jewish woman, secures a job at the Gestapo headquarters in Grodno, Poland. She is about to go undercover to fight against the Nazis. Show more
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Can a team of Norwegian skiers stop Hitler from obtaining the materials to create an atomic bomb large enough to destroy London? Show more
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Eric Roberts, a bank worker from Surrey, joins MI5. He is given the alias Jack King and his job is to hunt for British Nazi-sympathisers. Show more
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Albania was one of the few European countries to have a larger Jewish population at the end of the war than it had at the beginning. Why? Show more
Lucy Worsley introduces an episode of Lady Killers about Mary Surratt, a pious widow and mother, who faced a death sentence for conspiring to murder President Abraham Lincoln. Show more
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Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for tales of deception, resistance and courage in History's Secret Heroes Series 2.
30 minutes
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How did the American spy Virginia Hall mastermind an astonishing prison break, leading her to become the Gestapo’s most wanted target? Show more
29 minutes
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Major Charity Adams, the first African American woman to be commissioned in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, arrives in Birmingham, England, to sort out an enormous problem. Show more
29 minutes
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Thrill-seeker Christine Granville offers to ski over the deadly Carpathian mountains into Nazi-occupied Poland to gather intelligence for the British. Show more
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A group of Native American soldiers use their language to devise a secret code for the Allies. Can the Navajo code help win one of the fiercest battles of the war? Show more
29 minutes
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After contracting Hansen’s Disease, then known as leprosy, Josefina Guerrero makes a remarkable decision. She becomes a spy for the resistance in Manila. Show more
29 minutes
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A young circus performer from a travelling family in France breaks out of an internment camp and dedicates himself to bringing the Nazis down. Show more
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Doctor Charles Drew led the creation and use of blood banks, saving countless lives both in war and in peacetime. Show more
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A young Belgian woman masterminds an escape line, spanning eight hundred miles of Nazi-occupied territory, stretching from Belgium to Spain. Show more
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Emily Anderson led a double life. This shy musicologist from Galway was also a top codebreaker for the British, whose work would play a crucial role in Allied victory. Show more
