Ben Macintyre is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist for The Times.(Justine Stoddart)
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Writers and Company1:01:59Ben Macintyre tells the fascinating true story of the only woman to become a top Soviet spy
Mrs. Len Beurton of Great Rollright, a tiny village in the Cotswolds, was an apparently ordinary housewife and mother of three, famous for her home-baked scones.
In reality, she was Agent Sonya, a top Soviet operative, transmitting plans for the atomic bomb from an outhouse in her Oxfordshire garden. Her real name was Ursula Kuczynski and her intelligence work took her from her native Germany to Shanghai, Japanese-occupied Manchuria, Poland, Switzerland and England.