EPISODE · May 3, 2016 · 27 MIN
Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville
from Great Lives · host BBC Radio 4
Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb, former head of British special forces, champions the life of wartime spy Christine Granville, assisted by her biographer Clare Mulley.Christine, born Kristina Skarbek, was a glamorous swashbuckling heroine who skied into occupied Poland to distribute Allied propaganda, and parachuted into southern France to work with the Resistance after D Day. Murdered after the war by a jilted lover, she is little known today - thanks partly to the efforts of a group of men she had been close to, who formed a committee to "protect her reputation" from suggestions of sexual impropriety. Matthew Parris chairs the discussion. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
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