Ben Macintyre is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist for The Times.(Justine Stoddart) comments
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.
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In the final part of our spine-tingling new series by top espionage writer Ben Macintyre, we reveal how the net of the security services began to close around Soviet superspy Agent Sonya. However, thanks to the efforts of a comically inept MI5 surveillance chief, she was able to evade detention and prepared to flee back to the East . . .
Resolute: Ursula Kuczynski aka Agent Sonya lived till she was 93
The picturesque hamlet of Great Rollright in the heart of the north Oxfordshire Cotswolds was remote and exceedingly quiet when Ursula Beurton moved there with her three children in 1945, just after the end of World War II.
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