Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more - delving in to fact and fiction, past and present.
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Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more - delving in to fact and fiction, past and present.
The Son Who Wasn't - an incredible true story of espionage and betrayal.
SpyMasters
40 minutes
7 months ago
The Son Who Wasn't - an incredible true story of espionage and betrayal.
Antonia Senior talks to David Gardner, journalist and author about A Spy in the Family, the book he co-authored with fellow journalist Paul Henderson.
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keywords
espionage, spy stories, Czech spy, betrayal, identity, resilience, historical narrative, true crime, family, Cold War
summary
An Incredible True Story of Espionage and Betrayal, A Spy in the Family, is the first book to reveal the full, astonishing story of ‘Václav Jelínek’, aka Erwin van Haarlem, using previously unseen documents from the UK, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic
A fascinating tale of how the authors helped Johanna, now 99, find out the truth about the man who pretended to be her son.
It all starts in a courtroom, in 1989, when Johanna Von Haarlem confronted the man who had spent ten years pretending to be the son that she was brutally forced to give away during the war.
Sound Bites
"She was sent away to have the baby."
"He was a trained spy after all."
"He died a couple of years ago."
Chapters
00:00
The Genesis of a Spy Story
06:45
Johanna's Heartbreaking Journey
12:55
The Spy's Double Life
16:29
The Reunion and Its Consequences
28:41
The Shocking Truth Revealed
31:14
The Search for the Real Irwin
36:51
ending.mp3
37:03
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SpyMasters
Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more - delving in to fact and fiction, past and present.
