Podcasts about Guy Burgess

Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross—passed almost 17,000 classified documents to the Soviet Union for 30+ years. The information was so extensive and the volume so large, that Soviet intelligence initially suspected some of it might be disinformation, due to the high-ranking positions these spies held and the access they had. However, much of this intelligence was invaluable, influencing Soviet strategies during pivotal moments of World War II and the Cold War. Join us as we teach you about one of the most notorious spy rings in modern history, The Cambridge Five, and the most prominent member, Kim Philby. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

How Understanding Intractable Conflicts Can Improve Our SocietyIn this powerful episode of the Outrage Overload Podcast, we dive deep into the roots of our societal conflicts and explore ways to bridge the seemingly intractable divides that are tearing us apart. Our guest, Dr. Guy Burgess, a pioneering figure in conflict resolution, shares his insights on how to foster constructive dialogue and build a more cohesive society.Tune in to hear Dr. Burgess's expert insights and find out how you can contribute to lowering the temperature in our heated political landscape. Don't miss this enlightening conversation that promises to leave you with a deeper understanding of our societal conflicts and practical ways to foster a more united community.Send us a Text Message.Support the Show.Show Notes:https://outrageoverload.net/ Follow me, David Beckemeyer, on Twitter @mrblog. Follow the show on Twitter @OutrageOverload or Instagram @OutrageOverload. We are also on Facebook /OutrageOverload.HOTLINE: 925-552-7885Got a Question, comment or just thoughts you'd like to share? Call the OO hotline and leave a message and you could be featured in an upcoming episodeIf you would like to help the show, you can contribute here. Tell everyone you know about the show. That's the best way to support it.Rate and Review the show on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/OutrageOverloadMany thanks to my co-editor and co-director, Austin Chen.

In this episode, which is number 24 in Danny Hurst´s Monopoly history series it is the turn of the last green square – the extremely high rent, Bond Street. A street that is home to two of the oldest and most renowned auction houses, the oldest manmade sculpture in London and the Beadles. (Yes, that's with a "d", not a "t"). Find out why the street has been misnamed, and what its connection to James Bond, chocolate, diamonds, Guy Burgess, and the film Titanic is. Also, let Danny take you on a tour of the street´s many famous statues. *Correction-in this podcast it claims the statue of Sekhmet is the oldest manmade object in London.  This is actually the oldest manmade sculpture rather than object.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The statue above the entrance of Sotheby´s is over 3,600 years old. It has been a luxury shopping destination since the 18th century. The Royal Arcade is a must-see. The street is home to the oldest uniform-wearing security firm in the world. Danny tells you where you can see the work of Henry Moore. BEST MOMENTS ‘There isn´t a Bond Street in London. ´ ‘The origin of this motto goes way back to Roman times.' ‘It is believed that only one resident lives on Bond Street.'   EPISODE RESOURCES Shop for all official versions of Monopoly here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/785DC233-0A69-4DF8-98E9-4F50CC50A59E HOST BIO Historian, performer, and mentor Danny Hurst has been engaging audiences for many years, whether as a lecturer, stand-up comic or intervention teacher with young offenders and excluded secondary students. Having worked with some of the most difficult people in the UK, he is a natural storyteller and entertainer, whilst purveying the most fascinating information that you didn't know you didn't know. A writer and host of pub quizzes across London, he has travelled extensively and speaks several languages. He has been a consultant for exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum and Natural History Museum in London as well as presenting accelerated learning seminars across the UK. With a wide range of knowledge ranging from motor mechanics to opera to breeding carnivorous plants, he believes learning is the most effective when it's fun. Uniquely delivered, this is history without the boring bits, told the way only Danny Hurst can. CONTACT AND SOCIALS https://instagram.com/dannyjhurstfacebook.com/danny.hurst.9638 https://twitter.com/dannyhurst  https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-hurst-19574720 Podcast Description "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." James Joyce. That was me at school as well. Ironically, I ended up becoming a historian. The Unusual Histories podcast is all about the history you don't learn at school, nor indeed anywhere else. Discover things that you didn't know that you didn't know, fascinating historical luminaries and their vices and addictions, and the other numerous sides of every story. We start with the Monopoly Series, in which we explore how the game came to be, the real-life connection between the cheapest and most expensive properties, the history of each location, how proportionate the values were then and are today, what the hell a "community chest" is and whether free parking really does exist anywhere in London.  If you love history; or indeed if you hate history, this is the podcast for you…

On the 25th May 1951 Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defected to Moscow, and so the opening shots were fired in the dismantling of the Cambridge Spy Ring. Alcoholism took care of them, but what about other traitors including William Weisband, George Blake, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross and the master spy Kim Philby. And what about Edward Snowden - is he a traitor? Espionage author Michael Smith joins to discuss traitors from his book, The Real Special Relationship which is our Non Fiction Book Club. Michael Smith Links The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work AoH Book Club: Michael Smith on the Real Special Relationship - Aspects of History Michael on X Aspects of History Links Ollie on X Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Latest issue: Aspects of History Issue 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as we shine a spotlight on some of the most captivating stage productions gracing the city's iconic venues. From uproarious comedies to mind-bending magic, we have a line-up that promises to delight and entertain. So, sit back, relax, and let's explore the magic of the stage together. 

Spy mania' was at its height in the early 1960s when a British intelligence officer was revealed to be spying for the Soviet Union, after he had been drugged and then secretly photographed by KGB agents in Moscow having sex with another man. At a time when sexual relationships between men were illegal, John Vassall was jailed and publicly humiliated, while tabloid newspaper ran stories such as ‘How to Spot a Homo'.Writer Alex Grant joins Andrew and Phil to discuss his book on John Vassall, and what his life story tells us about both espionage and the social history of the 1960s. You can buy Alex's book, and books from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more. Andrew's own book on the spy Guy Burgess is also available here. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sex-spies-and-scandal-the-john-vassall-affair-alex-grant/7392845?aid=12054&ean=9781785907883&Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you'd like to get scandalous with? We're here to help.https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.The Scandal Mongers Podcast is also available to watch on YouTube...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgy7_rHwpE&t=23sAndrew Lowniehttps://twitter.com/andrewlowniePhil Craighttps://twitter.com/philmcraigScandal Mongershttps://twitter.com/MongersPodcastYou can get in touch with the show hosts via...team@podcastworld.org (place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).This show is part of the PodcastWorld.org network. For your own show please get in contact via the email address above.Production byTheo XKerem Isik Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed he had been part of the "Cambridge Five", a group of double agents who secretly passed sensitive information to the Soviet Union. Despite his confession to MI5 in 1964, Blunt continued his association with the royal household, working as a surveyor of the Queen's pictures until his retirement in 1972. The response in Parliament included disbelief and accusations of deliberate cover-ups to protect Blunt, leading, eventually, to his knighthood being rescinded. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly consider how Blunt's privilege facilitated his double-dealing at the very highest levels of British society; ask whether his homosexuality influenced his relationship with Guy Burgess and his willingness to betray the British establishment; and explain how a fictional work - and some trigger-happy lawyers - led to his downfall… Further Reading: • ‘Art historian who spied for the Soviet Union' (The Guardian, 1979): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/17/anthony-blunt-spy-sentenced-1979 • ‘Anthony Blunt: confessions of spy who passed secrets to Russia during the war' (The Telegraph, 2009): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5889879/Anthony-Blunt-confessions-of-spy-who-passed-secrets-to-Russia-during-the-war.html • ‘Art historian, professor, writer, spy – the extraordinary story of Anthony Blunt' (The British Academy, 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Z4lucQar0 Love the show? Join

On today's Summer Special, author and literary agent Andrew Lownie joins us to discuss his excellent book “Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess.” You can find out more about the book here: https://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/authors/andrew-lownie/books/stalins-englishman-the-lives-of-guy-burgess The podcast will return with a new "Espresso Martini" and "Extra Shot" on Saturday 9th September. — Extra Shot — To listen to "Extra Shot", you must be a Patreon subscriber. Go to the Secrets & Spies Patreon page and subscribe there to get access: www.patreon.com/SecretsAndSpies For more information about the podcast, check out our website: https://secretsandspiespodcast.com/  Support Secrets and Spies:    * Subscribe to our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDVB23lrHr3KFeXq4VU36dg * Become a “Friend of the podcast”  on Patreon for £3 www.patreon.com/SecretsAndSpies * You can buy merchandise from our shop: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/60934996?asc=u Connect with us on social media  TWITTER twitter.com/SecretsAndSpies FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/secretsandspies INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/secretsandspies/ SPOUTIBLE   https://spoutible.com/SecretsAndSpies Secrets and Spies is part of the Spy Podcast Network. Check out our other excellent spy-related podcasts here: https://www.spypodcasts.com/ 

durée : 01:00:00 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Histoires d'espionnage soviétique : les "Cinq de Cambridge" racontés par Alexandre Adler Dans une série consacrée aux "Histoires d'espionnage soviétique", Alexandre Adler consacrait deux épisodes aux "Cinq de Cambridge". S'il est dans le grand roman de l'espionnage un chapitre fascinant, c'est bien celui des "Cinq de Cambridge". L'affaire impliquait le gratin de la société britannique. Éclatant au plus chaud de la guerre froide, elle révéla, qu'en leurs plus hautes sphères, les services secrets de sa majesté étaient pénétrés par les soviétiques depuis de longues années. La personnalité, la qualité et la destinée de chacun de ses protagonistes, confèrent à cet épisode une dimension romanesque digne des plus grands auteurs. Ils s'appelaient Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross et Kim Philby. Mais étaient-ils cinq. seulement cinq ? Et ceux-là étaient-ils vraiment tous des agents soviétiques, au même titre, au même degré ? Aujourd'hui encore, l'affaire n'a sans doute pas livré tous ses secrets. * En 2000, dans la série qu'il consacrait sur France Culture à l'histoire de l'espionnage soviétique, Alexandre Adler revenait sur les rôles qu'y jouèrent Kim Philby et les autres. À elles seules, les biographies hors du commun de Kim Philby et de son propre-père, nous racontent un siècle d'une histoire avec laquelle nous sommes encore loin d'en avoir fini. Production : Alexandre Adler Réalisation : Brigitte Bouvier Histoire et Histoires - Histoires d'espionnage soviétique : Philby et compagnie 4/10 et Fin de Philby, la contre-offensive britannique 5/10 1ère diffusion : 24 et 25/08/2000

Alice and Matt sit down with biographer Andrew Lownie, who spent over 30 years researching Guy Burgess and spoke to over one hundred people who knew him personally. He tells us why Cambridge University was a particularly fertile breeding ground for Soviet recruits, how much damage the spy ring wrought on the British establishment and why five people who knew each other should never have become spies in the first place.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kim Philby and Guy Burgess are at the height of their power, working as double agents for the Soviet Union. But while their careers are going from strength to strength, their personal lives are in free fall. Destructive habits and paranoia are creeping to the surface. But that's not all... The CIA has just made an explosive discovery - and Philby and Burgess are at the heart of it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kim Philby and Guy Burgess are two Cambridge students with a shared purpose: fighting fascism. When they're introduced to a KGB recruiter in the 1930s, he tells them they could do just that by sharing British secrets with the Soviet Union. So how far will they go to further the cause? As far as betraying their own country?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kim Philby is often mentioned as the ringleader of the Cambridge Spy Ring, but an overwhelming amount of evidence points to the flamboyant and outlandish Guy Burgess as the most prolific and proficient of the group. What makes Burgess stand out, both personally and professionally?  In this episode, we'll: Explore the what motivated Burgess to turn on the country that showered him with status and privilege Study the social system that protected his often obvious treachery from exposure Examine Burgess as both an insider who was a product of his time and an outsider who never quite fit in with the era or his surroundingsContemplate the legacy of Burgess as an individual and the Cambridge Spy ring as a wholePhotos and sources can be found in our show notes HERE.

The revelation that spies working for the Soviet Union, recruited at Cambridge University in the 1930s, had deeply penetrated the British intelligence and diplomatic systems causes shockwaves throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s as more and more either defected or were exposed. The fascinating figure of Guy Burgess was at the heart of the scandal, and his secret flight to Moscow in 1951 stunned the world, shaking confidence in Britain in its Cold War ally, the USA. Andrew wrote a much acclaimed biography of Burgess and this week he talks Phil through his remarkable story, and that of the other key spies. And they discuss whether Burgess was the most important of them all. They're joined by one of Britain's greatest ever writers on intelligence, Nigel West. Nigel met with Anthony Blunt, one of the most important Cambridge spies, and gained access to previously secret Soviet files. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalins-Englishman-Lives-Guy-Burgess/dp/1473627362 www.nigelwest.com Andrew Lownie.twitter.com/andrewlownie Phil Craig.twitter.com/philmcraig You can now get in touch with the show...team@podcastworld.org (Place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please) This show is Part of the PodcastWorld.org network. Recorded in Kentish Town, London. Production byTheo X,Kerem Isik,David Kurzer. Available on YouTube, Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Soundcloud, Amazon Music, Googleplay, Acast and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Durante los primeros años de la Guerra Fría, el proyecto Venona fue una fuente de información de la actividad de inteligencia soviética que era dirigida a las potencias militares occidentales. Aunque desconocido para el público, e incluso para los presidentes Franklin D. Roosevelt y Harry S. Truman, estos programas fueron de importancia relativa a los acontecimientos cruciales de principios de la Guerra Fría. Esto incluía el caso de espionaje de Ethel y Julius Rosenberg y las deserciones de Donald Maclean y Guy Burgess a la Unión Soviética.

A talk with conflict resolution specialist Guy Burgess, who, along with his wife Heidi Burgess, run the project www.beyondintractability.org. Guy and Heidi wrote a paper in 2022 titled "Applying conflict resolution insights to the hyper‐polarized, society‐wide conflicts threatening liberal democracies." I talk with Guy about: how conflict resolution principles might be applied to U.S. polarization problems; the importance of addressing liberal-side contributions to polarization; the common objections people can have to seeing polarization as a problem that both sides must tackle; how some in the conflict resolution space may be hindered from helping by their own liberal bias and polarization; the Burgesses' ideas for what society must do to reduce polarization to more healthy levels, and more.Support the show

Season 3, episode 3: CHARLOTTE PHILBY (EDITH & KIM) & LUKE JENNINGS (KILLING EVE, KILLING EVE: NO TOMORROW). A woman at the centre of the spy story, the PHILBY legacy, Edith Tudor Hart, Guy Burgess, Villanelle the psychopathic killer & brilliant terrible women. VICTORIA SELMANSundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly DeeplyAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighCrime Time

Il nostro canale Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCwSostieni DENTRO LA STORIA su Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dentrolastoriaAbbonati al canale: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCw/joinCambridge, anni 30, in una delle universita' piu' importanti e famose del mondo, 5 uomini, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt e John Cairncross, cominciarono a collaborare, inviando preziose informazioni, con l'Unione Sovietica. Dal progetto Manhattan al progetto Venona, la collaborazione tra i cinque agenti doppiogiochisti e l'allora Unione Sovietica copri' un'arco di tempo a partire dagli anni 30 fino al periodo della guerra fredda.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/racconti-di-storia-podcast--5561307/support.

According to conflict resolution expert Guy Burgess, the inability to resolve conflict is the greatest threat to humanity. Conflict is the root of interpersonal disharmony, political polarization, us vs. them mentalities, violence, and all-out war. Our future relies on a workable solution. Yet the current tools we have don't adequately scale to the ever-growing complexity and interconnection of the world. Three decades ago Guy was introduced to systems theory by a nuclear physicist at a multidisciplinary conference he hosted on conflict resolution. Seeing conflict as a complex adaptive system moves away from the prominent worldview of mechanical thinking, aligning with the systems of nature, the ecological as opposed to the engineered. This holistic view is a radical shift. Viewing society as a complex system attempts to answer the question of how we can get along, and create a more peaceful world, despite having many differences in belief, ideology, wants, and needs. It works on principles and rules, not fixed on identifying problems and finding specific solutions. It understands conflict as ever-evolving, dynamic, and often unpredictable. Our conversation applies complex thinking to many societal issues. Guy explains the difference between a complicated and complex system, and how conflict is viewed through these perspectives. Guy explains the need for “massive-parallel peace building,” across many disciplines, using big picture thinking to bring together our collective skills and insights. He also explains the underlying psychology behind conflict, on an individual and societal level, and how vulnerabilities are exploited. We discuss the pandemic through this lens. Why do the media present oversimplified models of the world? Why do governments use “divide and conquer” techniques to stoke polarization, such as vaccinated vs unvaccinated? What are the hazards of not having access to free-flowing information, and the damage of censorship? We turn our attention to the future of society. That includes the necessity of moving towards a “power-with” and not “power-over” approach, finding the sweet spot of solidarity and innovators who find novel solutions, and why complex thinking moves us into the quantum era. By the end, we consider how this all factors into a wider collective awakening, and the evolution of consciousness across humanity as a whole. This is a useful and practical approach to what can often seem like an intangible, and impossible goal. Guy acknowledges that there has been no “golden age” of harmony or resolution, and the work on this will continue for decades to come. But, for someone who has dedicated his life to moving beyond the intractable, Guy makes global peace feel more attainable. God knows, we need it. Resources: Website: Beyond Intractability The Best of Both Worldviews: Can Systems Theory Unite Spirituality and Science? Title music: Monday Morning Wake Up Call by David Birch

Guy Burgess was perhaps the most unlikely spy in history, which is probably why he ended up being one of the best spies in history. Guy pulled off incredible feats of espionage without ever being caught. He accomplished this work with a staggering level of audacity and aplomb, all while drinking enough alcohol to kill two or three tortured musicians. Not only did Guy not hide his true self, he was utterly incapable of it. To meet Guy Burgess was to know Guy Burgess: unkempt, opinionated, inebriated, highly sexual, and seemingly fearless – Guy engaged with anyone who happened to cross his path. He made strong impressions, and quickly, among those who met him. Some were immediately taken by his sharp wit and astute observations, while others were utterly put off by his obnoxious political preaching and shameless name-dropping. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ciafiles/support

After secretly committing himself to the cause of Communism and to serving the Soviet Union, Kim Philby worked as a reporter in the time preceding WWII. But once the War started, he decided to look for better ways to fight off Fascism and to gain access to the inner workings of his homeland. He'd been casting about for an invitation into British intelligence when fellow Trinity College alum Guy Burgess introduced him to the chief of staff of MI6 Section D's training school for propaganda, Marjorie Maxse. Once cleared to join British intelligence, Philby quickly rose through the ranks of MI6, and in doing so, granted Moscow unprecedented access to the inner workings of what would become one of their greatest enemies. If not for Philby's work as a spy for Russia, the Cold War likely would have ended very differently, for better or worse.

Title: Klaus Fuchs: Traitor or Man of Conscience Description: We are joined again by Michael Holzman author of Spies and Traitors and many other books on the topics of espionage, spies and deceit at the highest levels of government during the 20th century. Michael Holzman is going to guide us through the fascinating life of another spy, Los Alamos and Manhattan Project scientist Klaus Fuchs. We will try to figure out what Klaus Fuchs motivations were for providing important secrets to the Soviets. Learn More About our Guest:Michael Holzman author of:Spies and Traitors: Kim Philby, James Angleton and the Friendship and Betrayal that Would Shape MI6, the CIA and the Cold Warhttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spies-and-Traitors/Michael-Holzman/9781643138077You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:http://atozhistorypage.com/Click to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Thank you again for listening to beyond the big screen podcast. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Michael Holzman, author of spies and traders among other great books on espionage during world war two and the cold war links to learn more about Michael Holzman and his books can be found in the show notes.A great way to support beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on apple podcast. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show. Other people learn about beyond the big screen to learn more about the Parthenon podcast networks and great shows like Scott ranks, history unplug James Early's key battles of American history, Richard Lim;s, this American president, and more can be [00:01:00] found at parthenonpodcast.com.You can learn more about beyond the big screen, great movies and story. So great. They should be movies on Facebook and Twitter by searching for. A to Z history, you can contact me there, or just send me an email to my email, address, steve@atwosiehistorypage.coml inks to all of this and more can be found at beyondthebigscreen.com.I thank you for joining me again beyond the big screen. And I think you're going to enjoy this one today.Thank you for joining us today. Again, I am very excited to be joined again by special guests, Michael Holzman, author of the books, spies and traders, Kim Philby, James Angleton, and the friendship and betrayal that would shape the CIA and the cold war. Uh, Michael Holzman is the author of numerous books, [00:02:00] including James Jesus Angleton, the CIA and the craft of intelligence biography.Guy Burgess and one on Donald and Melinda McLean, as well as the novel packs, 1934 to 1941. Today's episode is kind of a, uh, add on to our episode when we talked about Jason. Jesus Angleton and Kim Philby today, we're going to talk about another spy and trader who affected the entire trajectory of the cold war scientists, Klaus Fuchs.The focus of most of your works is on cold war history and particularly spies and espionage during the cold war. How did you become interested in this topic? It's more or less an accident? I drifted into it. Um, I was interested. And ideology the way in which the ideas to. Basically, usually a dominant group affect the actions of everyone within that [00:03:00] group and everyone that's affected by it.So, uh, a very good example of how that works. It's the, these groups of people, um, who are involved in espionage, not from. But because their beliefs, uh, Kim Philby, who we talked to about rather exhaustive with the other day, uh, was part of a group at Cambridge university in England, in the early 1930s that joined the communist party, um, because they were.Concerned about the way, uh, he, uh, dominant group and Britain and the British empire was accumulating enormous riches at the expense of the people who are actually producing them. I've just been reading actually, uh, th the diaries of Henry Chip's Channon, who was a member of that dominant group. He was in [00:04:00] the society.Uh, pages as it were of England. I took me in the 1920s and the rather dazzling, uh, lifestyle that he led, uh, dressing fruit dinner every night, going to two balls, constantly moving from long castle. That's a very good example of how the top 2%, 1% what happened 1% of European countries at that time lived well, on the other hand, we have, uh, coal miners and, uh, going into the general strike at exactly the same time, because they weren't paid enough to, to eat these people.Philby virtuous. Anthony blunt. Who's another very interesting person. I decided to work for a change in that system and we can see then how their beliefs then were enacted in actions. [00:05:00] Klaus Fuchs. And a lot of ways was a bit different than some of the other people that we've spoken about and, and his background and what he actually did and his espionage career.What does, before we drill down into some of the specifics of his career, can you tell us a little bit about what did, what did Klaus Fuchs actually do? Well, what he did and, and why he's famous is that he took the detailed information about the atomic bomb that was developed at Los Alamos and sent it to Moscow.A perhaps. Accelerated the development of the Soviet atomic bomb by a year, maybe two years as we look back at that time. Now this becomes increasingly crucial. Yes. The United States was planning a nuclear war against the Soviet union [00:06:00] to occur. Uh, probably about 1950. The fact that the Soviets exploded an affiliate device in August, 1949, made that impossible.This the point I wish this was probably most probable Ms. During the Korean war. When the Chinese had intervened and, uh, driven back the American and British forces to the Chinese Korean border from the train and general MacArthur wanted to bomb the Chinese forces and he was stopped from doing this and it hasn't done.Much elaborated about why he was stopped, but one good reason that he was talking with, uh, president Truman and Eisenhower the Natera at that time thought, uh, the United States used atomic weapons there. The [00:07:00] Soviets very likely, uh, do so themselves, uh, perhaps by bombing London. So, um, who was clouds? Feats.What was his background? Where did he come from? The background is very interesting. Uh, I see three approaches to, uh, folks, one of us when we were just discussing the espionage and there's, uh, a lot of information about how he was caught and on the American side and how he did what he did on the Soviet.So it's not. Yes that he was a physicist. Uh, he wasn't quite a Nobel prize quality because of this newness, that next notch town, but he was very much admired for his work. I said, theoretical nuclear physicist. And the third approach to him is that he was, um, he was to say, secular. Protestant [00:08:00] his, uh, family had been, his father was a Protestant minister who became a Quaker.This was in Germany, uh, before the first world war, his grandfather had also been a Protestant minister and cloud's folks had drilled into him from an early age that it was very important to do the right. This I, what was right following, uh, say radical Protestant views and following the teachings of Emmanuel Kant.Uh, and then once you've decided what the right thing, uh, to do you call ahead and do it no matter what anybody else is saying. And he took this essentially Christian idea, uh, with him as he became a communist before they, uh, in the 1920s. It was family had been social Democrats socialists, but, uh, he decided, and [00:09:00] his siblings decided simultaneously that the social Democrats in Germany, in the 19 late 1920s, weren't doing enough to stop the rise of the Nazi.And that the only group that, uh, seemed to be willing to actually fight and I mean, literally fight street fights and Nazis was the German communist party. So you'll have these three things. He asked me a notch. And you, uh, have this ethical approach to, um, my folks, uh, started out his education at the kale as a, became a physics student.And as things deteriorated in Germany in the early 1930s, he took a leading role in the, uh, student branch of the chairman Cummings. And got into a serious conflict. [00:10:00] So the Nazis, I think here, we need to talk about the difference between communism at that time and communism, the lease Inc, or the communist party in Germany was the largest in the world, uh, for quite some time and was an internationalist party.It's thoughts. That would be a good thing. If everybody in the world came from. After Lennon brought the Russian communist party to power and what became the Soviet union, there was a split and some people, uh, decided that the thing to do was to build communism in the Soviet again and forget about the rest of the world.And others wanted to continue the idea that there should be a worldwide revolution. The ladder was Trotsky and the former was stolen and stolen. It. But in night in the early 1930s, this wasn't completely clear. So [00:11:00] folks Allegiant the communist. Well, is it an allegiance to the German condiments? Pardon me?Not to the Soviet idea. That was only much later after the German communist party was destroyed by the Nazis in the mid 1930s. That to be a communist meant to, you had to have some kind of loyalty, the communist party of the Soviet. How w how engaged was Fuchs. He did the, he was in the leadership of the German communist party.Was he on the more o

In Part Two, Andrew Lownie chats with me about being warned off the story, unsolved murder, conspiracy and Guy Burgess.You can get hold of me on Twitter @olliewcqAndrew is @andrewlownieAndrew has written a new book, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of WindsorYou can donate to his Crowd Justice case here.In our discussion we talked about a few things you can find out more about:Len Deighton's SS-GB (also a good TV Series on Netflix)Any Human Heart, by William Boyd.John Banville: The Untouchable based on the Cambridge Spies.The movie with (young) Rupert Everett and Colin Firth: Another Country based on Guy BurgessThe Alan Bennett play, An Englishman Abroad, based on Burgess' chance encounter in Moscow.Andrew's book is Stalin's EnglishmanMerry Christmas and a Happy New Year

In the podcast this week, we're speaking to biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie. Andrew founded his literary agency 1998 which has since gone on to be world renowned, currently working with around 350 authors. Andrew's biography of John Buchanan was published in 1995 and he has since gone on to publish books on Guy Burgess & the Mountbattens. His latest book, which explores the lives of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor post abdication was published on 19th August. Books mentioned in this episode: The Otterbury Incident by C Lewis (https://bit.ly/3ClbN2j), Climate of Treason by Andrew Boyle, Anatomy of Britain Today by Anthony Sampson, The Mountbattens : Their Lives & Loves by Andrew Lownie (https://bit.ly/3Eq4AAb), Traitor King by Andrew Lownie (https://bit.ly/3EoV28f). Produced and presented by the team at Mostly Books. Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop. Edited by Nick Short @alongstoryshorter

Kristján Kristjánsson stýrir kröftugri umræðu um þjóðmálin. Í þessum þætti: Kristján Guy Burgess sérfræðingur í alþjóðamálum og Björn Bjarnason fyrrverandi ráðherra um alþjóðamál. Tómas Guðbjartsson Skurðlæknir á LSP Háskólasjúkrahúsi um heilbrigðismál. Inga Sæland formaður Flokks fólksins, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson varaformaður VG og Björn Leví Gunnarsson varaforseti Pírata um pólitik og kosningar.

Flugfélagið Icelandair birti í gærkvöldi uppgjör sitt fyrir fyrstu þrjá mánuði ársins. Tapið var 3,7 milljarðar króna, sem kannski er ekki að undra þar sem farþegaflug félagsins hefur nánast legið í dvala um langt skeið. Kristján Sigurjónsson, ritstjóri Túrista, sagði okkur það helsta sem lesa má úr uppgjörinu í spjalli um ferðamál. Kristján ræddi líka um ferðamannahorfurnar nú í byrjun sumars, en hlutirnir breytast nokkuð hratt í ferðaheiminum þessa dagana. Orð seðlabankastjóra um að Íslandi sé að miklu leyti stjórnað af hagsmunaöflum hafa vakið nokkra athygli og umtal og voru til umræðu í óundirbúnum fyrirspurnum á Alþingi fyrr í vikunni. Þá halda þingmenn áfram að ræða viðbrögð við kórónuveirufaraldrinum, afléttingar og framhald bólusetninga. Og svo eru það prófkjör og listar fyrir komandi alþingiskosningar - þar heldur áfram að draga til tíðinda. Við ræddum um pólitík við Jóhönnu Vigdísi Hjaltadóttur fréttamann. 100 dagar eru liðnir af forsetatíð Joes Biden Bandaríkjaforseta. Ólíkt forveranum hefur forsetinn ekki ratað í fréttirnar daglega, en þó Af hverju hafa þeir einkennst og hvað er framundan? Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur fór með okkur yfir þessi mál á Morgunvaktinni. Umsjónarmenn Morgunvaktarinnar eru Þórhildur Þorkelsdóttir og Þórunn Elísabet Bogadóttir. Tónlist: Lovely day - Bill Withers Pick up the pieces - Average White Band

Flugfélagið Icelandair birti í gærkvöldi uppgjör sitt fyrir fyrstu þrjá mánuði ársins. Tapið var 3,7 milljarðar króna, sem kannski er ekki að undra þar sem farþegaflug félagsins hefur nánast legið í dvala um langt skeið. Kristján Sigurjónsson, ritstjóri Túrista, sagði okkur það helsta sem lesa má úr uppgjörinu í spjalli um ferðamál. Kristján ræddi líka um ferðamannahorfurnar nú í byrjun sumars, en hlutirnir breytast nokkuð hratt í ferðaheiminum þessa dagana. Orð seðlabankastjóra um að Íslandi sé að miklu leyti stjórnað af hagsmunaöflum hafa vakið nokkra athygli og umtal og voru til umræðu í óundirbúnum fyrirspurnum á Alþingi fyrr í vikunni. Þá halda þingmenn áfram að ræða viðbrögð við kórónuveirufaraldrinum, afléttingar og framhald bólusetninga. Og svo eru það prófkjör og listar fyrir komandi alþingiskosningar - þar heldur áfram að draga til tíðinda. Við ræddum um pólitík við Jóhönnu Vigdísi Hjaltadóttur fréttamann. 100 dagar eru liðnir af forsetatíð Joes Biden Bandaríkjaforseta. Ólíkt forveranum hefur forsetinn ekki ratað í fréttirnar daglega, en þó Af hverju hafa þeir einkennst og hvað er framundan? Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur fór með okkur yfir þessi mál á Morgunvaktinni. Umsjónarmenn Morgunvaktarinnar eru Þórhildur Þorkelsdóttir og Þórunn Elísabet Bogadóttir. Tónlist: Lovely day - Bill Withers Pick up the pieces - Average White Band

A moving and revealing new portrait of Winston Churchill through the most important relationship in his life - that with his son, Randolph. Few fathers and sons can ever have been so close as Winston Churchill and his only son, Randolph. Both showed flamboyant impatience, reckless bravery and generosity of spirit. The glorious and handsome Randolph was a giver and devourer of pleasure, a man who exploded into rooms, trailing whisky tumblers and reciting verbatim whole passages of classic literature. But while Randolph inherited many of his fathers' talents, he also inherited all of his flaws. Randolph was his father only more so: fiercer, louder, more out of control. Hence father and son would be so very close, and so liable to explode at each other. Winston's closest ally during the wilderness years of the 1930s, Randolph would himself become a war hero, serving with the SAS in the desert and Marshal Tito's guerrillas in Yugoslavia, a friend of press barons and American presidents alike, and a journalist with a 'genius for uncovering secrets', able to secure audiences with everyone from Kaiser Wilhelm to General Franco and Guy Burgess. But Randolph's political career never amounted to anything. As much as he idolised Winston and never lost faith in his father during the long, solitary years of Winston's decline, he was never able to escape from the shadow cast by Britain's great hero. In his own eyes, and most woundingly of all his father's, his life was a failure. Winston, ever consumed by his own sense of destiny, allowed his own ambitions to take priority over Randolph's. The world, big as it was, only had space for one Churchill. Instead of the glory he believed was his birthright, Randolph died young, his body rotted by resentment and drink, before he could complete his father's biography. A revealing new perspective on the Churchill myth, this intimate story reveals the lesser-seen Winston Churchill: reading Peter Rabbit books to his children, admonishing Eton schoolmasters and using decanters and wine glasses to re-fight the Battle of Jutland at the table. Amid a cast of personalities who defined an era - PG Wodehouse, Nancy Astor, The Mitfords, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lord Beaverbrook, William Randolph Hearst, Oswald Mosley, Graham Greene, Duff and Diana Cooper, the Kennedys, Charlie Chaplin, and Lloyd George - Churchill & Son is the lost story of a timeless father-son relationship.

Juan Jesús Vallejo, Alejandro Bernal y Yoana Arenas Bedoya, invitada. Hacen un recorrido por la historia de Richard Sorge, uno de los espías más importantes del mundo . Además de explorar misiones y operaciones realizadas por los servicios de inteligencia como la CIA. 00:01:29 El círculo de Cambridge y Guy Burgess 00:04:35 Operación Gatito Acústico de la CIA 00:12:55 Operación Retro de la CIA 00:13:54 Yoana Arenas Bedoya, periodista 00:15:31 Richard Serge , espía soviético 00:19:14 Richard Serge y Alemania 00:25:48 Operación Barbarroja 00:35:33 John Edgar Hoover, ex Director del FBI 00:39:56 Edgar Hoover y Hollywood 00:50:13 CIA y el Mosad , los servicios de inteligencia más poderosos del mundo 00:55:49 Incidente del golfo de Tolkin 01:00:07 Vietcong, Frente Nacional de Liberación de Vietnam 01:08:25 Operación Moisés y el Mosad, agencia de inteligencia de Israel 01: 18:22 Operación SalomónPodcast de Caracol en redes sociales:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CaracolPodcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caracolpodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaracolPodcastContáctenos: podcast@caracol.com.co See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Biden tekur í dag við embætti forseta Bandaríkjanna. Líklega mætir hann á skrifstofuna strax síðdegis með uppbrettar ermar enda mörg vandasöm verkefni sem greiða þarf úr. Bandaríska þjóðin er klofin í herðar niður, kórónuveirufaraldurinn hefur leikið landsmenn grátt með margvíslegum afleiðingum og samband Bandaríkjanna og fjölda vinaþjóða stirðara en áður eftir Trump-tímann. En hvers má vænta næstu fjögur ár? Hvernig forseti verður Joe Biden? Við veltum því fyrir okkur með Kristjáni Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingi. Nýr forseti tekur svo við í agnarsmáa Kyrrahafs-eyríkinu Palau á morgun. Hann heitir Surangel Whipps og ætlar meðal annars að berjast gegn yfirgangi Kínverja á Kyrrahafi, en Palau á í nánu sambandi við Bandaríkin. Palau er svo eitt þeirra örfáu ríkja sem hafa sloppið alveg við kórónuveirusmit allan faraldurinn og hafa stjórnvöld þar metnaðarfull áform um að bólusetja alla þjóðina á næstu vikum - íbúar eru aðeins um átján þúsund. Vera Illugadóttir sagði frá. Og undir lok þáttar komum við heim og fórum í ferðalag um Norðurland. Þar eru margar náttúruperlur og aðrir spennandi áfangastaðir ferðamanna. Fyrir liggur áætlun um framkvæmdir og uppbyggingu og greining á þörfum og óskum ferðalanga. Hvað vilja ferðamenn helst sjá á Norðurlandi og hvernig er betur hægt að koma til móts þá? Ágúst Ólafsson, fréttamaður á Akureyri fór yfir málið með Birni H. Reynissyni á Markaðsstofu Norðurlands. Tónlist: Always remember us this way - Lady Gaga We take care of our own - Bruce Springsteen

Joe Biden tekur í dag við embætti forseta Bandaríkjanna. Líklega mætir hann á skrifstofuna strax síðdegis með uppbrettar ermar enda mörg vandasöm verkefni sem greiða þarf úr. Bandaríska þjóðin er klofin í herðar niður, kórónuveirufaraldurinn hefur leikið landsmenn grátt með margvíslegum afleiðingum og samband Bandaríkjanna og fjölda vinaþjóða stirðara en áður eftir Trump-tímann. En hvers má vænta næstu fjögur ár? Hvernig forseti verður Joe Biden? Við veltum því fyrir okkur með Kristjáni Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingi. Nýr forseti tekur svo við í agnarsmáa Kyrrahafs-eyríkinu Palau á morgun. Hann heitir Surangel Whipps og ætlar meðal annars að berjast gegn yfirgangi Kínverja á Kyrrahafi, en Palau á í nánu sambandi við Bandaríkin. Palau er svo eitt þeirra örfáu ríkja sem hafa sloppið alveg við kórónuveirusmit allan faraldurinn og hafa stjórnvöld þar metnaðarfull áform um að bólusetja alla þjóðina á næstu vikum - íbúar eru aðeins um átján þúsund. Vera Illugadóttir sagði frá. Og undir lok þáttar komum við heim og fórum í ferðalag um Norðurland. Þar eru margar náttúruperlur og aðrir spennandi áfangastaðir ferðamanna. Fyrir liggur áætlun um framkvæmdir og uppbyggingu og greining á þörfum og óskum ferðalanga. Hvað vilja ferðamenn helst sjá á Norðurlandi og hvernig er betur hægt að koma til móts þá? Ágúst Ólafsson, fréttamaður á Akureyri fór yfir málið með Birni H. Reynissyni á Markaðsstofu Norðurlands. Tónlist: Always remember us this way - Lady Gaga We take care of our own - Bruce Springsteen

Kristján Kristjánsson stýrir kröftugri umræðu um þjóðmálin. Í þessum þætti: Jón Ólafsson prófessor við HÍ og Auður Tinna Aðalbjarnardóttit ræða um tjáningarfrelsið og velta fyrir sér hvort breyta þurfi regluverki samfélagsmiðla í ljósi þess að Twitter úthýsti Trump af miðlinum. Jón Gunnarsson alþingismaður og Margrét Tryggavadóttir rithöfundur og fyrrverandi alþingiskona ræða um búsáhaldabyltinguna og innrásina í bandaríska þinghúsið, en margt virðist í fljótu bragði líkt með þessum tveimur sögulegu atburðum. Logi Einarsson formaður Samfylkingarinnar og Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson formaður Miðflokksins takast á um pólitík samtímans en langsótt virðist að flokkar þeirra geti lagst undir eina sæng. Í lok þáttar veltir Kristján Guy Burgess fyrir sér hvaða áhrif Trump hefur haft á alþjóðamálin.

Brynhildur Bolladóttir, upplýsingafulltrúi Rauða krossins, Kristján Guy Burgess, alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur og Pétur Már Ólafsson útgefandi hjá Bjarti - Veröld ræddu um bólusetningar gegn COVID-19, sóttvarnir um jól, hælisleitendur, Brexit, bókajól og aðventu. Umsjón: Anna Kristín Jónsdóttir Tæknimaður: Ragnar Gunnarsson

Brynhildur Bolladóttir, upplýsingafulltrúi Rauða krossins, Kristján Guy Burgess, alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur og Pétur Már Ólafsson útgefandi hjá Bjarti - Veröld ræddu um bólusetningar gegn COVID-19, sóttvarnir um jól, hælisleitendur, Brexit, bókajól og aðventu. Umsjón: Anna Kristín Jónsdóttir Tæknimaður: Ragnar Gunnarsson

Brynhildur Bolladóttir, upplýsingafulltrúi Rauða krossins, Kristján Guy Burgess, alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur og Pétur Már Ólafsson útgefandi hjá Bjarti - Veröld ræddu um bólusetningar gegn COVID-19, sóttvarnir um jól, hælisleitendur, Brexit, bókajól og aðventu. Umsjón: Anna Kristín Jónsdóttir Tæknimaður: Ragnar Gunnarsson

Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies, brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.In his book “Stalin’s Englishman”, Andrew Lownie tells us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.UK fans can buy the book and support the podcast here https://amzn.to/3jyvcTHUS fans can buy the book and support the podcast here https://amzn.to/35LDAdRNow I really need your help to allow me the time to continue producing and preserving these Cold War stories. A monthly donation to help keep us on the air is only about $3, £3 or €3 per month (larger amounts are welcome too) plus you can get a sought after CWC coaster as a monthly financial supporter and you bask in the warm glow of knowing you are helping to preserve Cold War history.Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/If a financial contribution is not your cup of tea, then you can still help us by leaving written reviews wherever you listen to us as well as sharing us on social media. It really helps us get new guests on the show.I am delighted to welcome Andrew Lownie to our Cold War conversation…There’s further information on this episode in our show notes,plus a book giveaway which can also be found as a link in your podcast app here. http://coldwarconversations.com/episode148/ If you can’t wait for next week’s episode do visit our Facebook discussion group where guests and listeners continue the Cold War Conversation. Just search Cold War Conversations in Facebook.Thank you very much for listening. It is really appreciated Our Merchandise Store Help support the podcast with a CWC mug or maybe a t-shirt? Our Book List Help Support the podcast by shopping at Amazon. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coldwarpod)

Pálína Þorsteinsdóttir kennari í Borgarskóla setti á dögunum af stað svokallað umhyggjuverkefni þar sem hún hvetur fólk til að gefa af sér á margs konar hátt til þeirra sem eru í einangrun. Hugmyndina fékk hún þegar hún var að útbúa glaðning fyrir vin dóttur sinnar sem var í þeim sporum. Við heyrðum í Pálínu um þessa fallegu hugmynd og hvernig má útfæra hana. Mikið er rætt um atvinnuástandið þessa dagana, fjöldauppsagnir og fyrirtæki sem blæða út. Þessu ástandi fylgja vissulega áskoranir og erfiðleikar fyrir þá sem misst hafa vinnuna, en minna hefur verið talað um þá eru í vinnu á þessum krefjandi tímum. Hvaða áhrif hefur ástandið á það fólk og hvað geta stjórnendur gert við núverandi aðstæður? Hlynur Jónasson atvinnuráðgjafi hjá Heilsugæslunni og stjórnarmaður í Geðhjálp kom til okkar og ræddi þessi mál. Öryrkjabandalagið lýsti yfir miklum vonbrigðum með fjárlagafrumvarp ríkisstjórnarinnar í byrjun október. Þá hefur bandalagið birt auglýsingar þar sem vísað er í frægt kökugerðarmyndband Bjarna Benediktssonar. Síðan þá hafa skotin, ef svo má segja, gengið á milli fjármálaráðherra og Öryrkjabandalagsins. Við heyrðum í Þuríði Hörpu Sigurðardóttur formanni ÖBÍ. Forsetakosningar fóru fram í Bandaríkjunum í gær eins og alþjóð veit. Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóða stjórnmálafræðingur fór yfir helstu tíðindi að vestan með okkur. Við fórum svo suður til Spánar og heyrðum í tíðindamanni okkar þar, Jóhanni Hlíðari Harðarsyni, sem sagði okkur af mótmælum, misheppnuðum framkvæmdum og poppsmelli miklum. Tónlist: Sigrún Stella - Sideways. Myrkvi - Gamechanger. Jón Jónsson - Dýrka mest. Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you. Magni - If I promised you the world. Helgi Björnsson - Lapis Lazuli. Hjálmar - Manstu. Dua Lipa - Physical. Travis - The only thing (ft. Susanne Hoffs).

Pálína Þorsteinsdóttir kennari í Borgarskóla setti á dögunum af stað svokallað umhyggjuverkefni þar sem hún hvetur fólk til að gefa af sér á margs konar hátt til þeirra sem eru í einangrun. Hugmyndina fékk hún þegar hún var að útbúa glaðning fyrir vin dóttur sinnar sem var í þeim sporum. Við heyrðum í Pálínu um þessa fallegu hugmynd og hvernig má útfæra hana. Mikið er rætt um atvinnuástandið þessa dagana, fjöldauppsagnir og fyrirtæki sem blæða út. Þessu ástandi fylgja vissulega áskoranir og erfiðleikar fyrir þá sem misst hafa vinnuna, en minna hefur verið talað um þá eru í vinnu á þessum krefjandi tímum. Hvaða áhrif hefur ástandið á það fólk og hvað geta stjórnendur gert við núverandi aðstæður? Hlynur Jónasson atvinnuráðgjafi hjá Heilsugæslunni og stjórnarmaður í Geðhjálp kom til okkar og ræddi þessi mál. Öryrkjabandalagið lýsti yfir miklum vonbrigðum með fjárlagafrumvarp ríkisstjórnarinnar í byrjun október. Þá hefur bandalagið birt auglýsingar þar sem vísað er í frægt kökugerðarmyndband Bjarna Benediktssonar. Síðan þá hafa skotin, ef svo má segja, gengið á milli fjármálaráðherra og Öryrkjabandalagsins. Við heyrðum í Þuríði Hörpu Sigurðardóttur formanni ÖBÍ. Forsetakosningar fóru fram í Bandaríkjunum í gær eins og alþjóð veit. Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóða stjórnmálafræðingur fór yfir helstu tíðindi að vestan með okkur. Við fórum svo suður til Spánar og heyrðum í tíðindamanni okkar þar, Jóhanni Hlíðari Harðarsyni, sem sagði okkur af mótmælum, misheppnuðum framkvæmdum og poppsmelli miklum. Tónlist: Sigrún Stella - Sideways. Myrkvi - Gamechanger. Jón Jónsson - Dýrka mest. Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you. Magni - If I promised you the world. Helgi Björnsson - Lapis Lazuli. Hjálmar - Manstu. Dua Lipa - Physical. Travis - The only thing (ft. Susanne Hoffs).

In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two British foreign office employees, scrambled onto a boat. Their destination, Moscow. But they weren't on a mission, they were defecting. This would be the first event in a chain reaction which lead to the biggest scandal in British intelligence and one that has inspired countless works of fiction. A special thanks to The French Chronicles and Firebreathing Kittens for their support! Written, narrated and produced by Sam WallaceArtwork by Sophie WenhamMusic by Radår Link to his work https://xephem.bandcamp.com/Follow the podcast on our socials! Facebook Twitter & Instagram Why not rate this podcast? A Spire Town Media productionSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CKTC)

The real life inspiration for Tinker Tailor soldier spy was a spy ring in British intelligence. this is the story of their cover being blown and their escape to Moscow. email: the historicalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/09/guy-burgess-cambridge-spy-who-bet-soviet-future www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/635823/Cold-War-thriller-Guy-Burgess-Express-Russia-Cambridge media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/stalins-englishman-lives-guy-burgess/ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3216458/The-promiscuous-man-lived-New-biography-Guy-Burgess-reveals-Cambridge-spy-sleep-17-75-real-passion-treachery.html spartacus-educational.com/SSburgessG.htm Baker, Rob Beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics, Amberley publishing, 2015

Umsjón: Sigríður Dögg Auðunsdóttir, Gestir: Svanhildur Hólm aðstoðarmaður fjármálaráðherra , Kristján Guy Burgess, stjórnmálafræðingur og Víðir Reynisson yfirlögregluþjónn hjá Ríkislögreglustjóra.

Umsjón: Sigríður Dögg Auðunsdóttir, Gestir: Svanhildur Hólm aðstoðarmaður fjármálaráðherra , Kristján Guy Burgess, stjórnmálafræðingur og Víðir Reynisson yfirlögregluþjónn hjá Ríkislögreglustjóra.

Umsjón: Sigríður Dögg Auðunsdóttir, Gestir: Svanhildur Hólm aðstoðarmaður fjármálaráðherra , Kristján Guy Burgess, stjórnmálafræðingur og Víðir Reynisson yfirlögregluþjónn hjá Ríkislögreglustjóra.

Les Cinq de Cambridge étaient un groupe d’espionnage composé essentiellement de cinq anciens étudiants de l’université de Cambridge. Ils avaient été recrutés par le NKVD — futur KGB — durant les années 1930, puis travaillèrent pour le compte de l'Union soviétique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide qui la suivit.Il s’agissait nommément de : Kim Philby (nom de code : Stanley), Guy Burgess (nom de code : Hicks), Donald Duart Maclean (nom de code : Homer), Anthony Blunt (nom de code : Johnson) et John Cairncross (nom de code : Liszt) ; selon certaines sources cependant, ce seraient jusqu'à 17 agents qui auraient été recrutés à cette époque, plusieurs d'entre eux développant des relations avec le réseau Homintern.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Les Cinq de Cambridge étaient un groupe d’espionnage composé essentiellement de cinq anciens étudiants de l’université de Cambridge. Ils avaient été recrutés par le NKVD — futur KGB — durant les années 1930, puis travaillèrent pour le compte de l'Union soviétique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide qui la suivit.Il s’agissait nommément de : Kim Philby (nom de code : Stanley), Guy Burgess (nom de code : Hicks), Donald Duart Maclean (nom de code : Homer), Anthony Blunt (nom de code : Johnson) et John Cairncross (nom de code : Liszt) ; selon certaines sources cependant, ce seraient jusqu'à 17 agents qui auraient été recrutés à cette époque, plusieurs d'entre eux développant des relations avec le réseau Homintern.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Les Cinq de Cambridge étaient un groupe d’espionnage composé essentiellement de cinq anciens étudiants de l’université de Cambridge. Ils avaient été recrutés par le NKVD — futur KGB — durant les années 1930, puis travaillèrent pour le compte de l'Union soviétique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide qui la suivit.Il s’agissait nommément de : Kim Philby (nom de code : Stanley), Guy Burgess (nom de code : Hicks), Donald Duart Maclean (nom de code : Homer), Anthony Blunt (nom de code : Johnson) et John Cairncross (nom de code : Liszt) ; selon certaines sources cependant, ce seraient jusqu'à 17 agents qui auraient été recrutés à cette époque, plusieurs d'entre eux développant des relations avec le réseau Homintern.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Les Cinq de Cambridge étaient un groupe d’espionnage composé essentiellement de cinq anciens étudiants de l’université de Cambridge. Ils avaient été recrutés par le NKVD — futur KGB — durant les années 1930, puis travaillèrent pour le compte de l'Union soviétique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide qui la suivit.Il s’agissait nommément de : Kim Philby (nom de code : Stanley), Guy Burgess (nom de code : Hicks), Donald Duart Maclean (nom de code : Homer), Anthony Blunt (nom de code : Johnson) et John Cairncross (nom de code : Liszt) ; selon certaines sources cependant, ce seraient jusqu'à 17 agents qui auraient été recrutés à cette époque, plusieurs d'entre eux développant des relations avec le réseau Homintern.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess était un membre du Secret Intelligence Service recruté comme agent par les services soviétiques (noms de code : Maedchen, Hiks). Il appartenait au groupe d'espions connu sous le nom des Cinq de Cambridge qui trahirent leur pays pendant la guerre froide. Burgess transmit notamment des documents secrets britanniques et aida un autre agent soviétique, Kim Philby, à rejoindre à son tour le SIS. Pour plus d'informations sur la confidentialité de vos données, visitez Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, umhverfisráðherra, sem jafnframt er utan þings, greindi frá því í gær að hann bjóði sig fram til varaformennsku í VG. Það vekur óneitanlega upp þá spuringu hvort hann vilji í framhaldinu fara í framboð fyrir flokkinn. Guðmundur kom til okkar í morgunkaffi. Brenglaður bransi, segir Jón Trausti Reynisson, annar ritstjóra Stundarinnar, um einkarekna fjölmiðla. Hann spyr hvers vegna hópur nokkurra helstu auðmanna Íslands er að niðurgreiða íslenska fjölmiðla í gengdarlausu tapi í samkeppni við aðra? Hann ræddi þetta við okkur. Skvísukynslóðinn hefur náð athygli landsmanna. Þetta eru börn, sem lifa á barnamauki í pokum sem þau sjúga matinn úr. Þau hafa hvorki lært að tyggja né þekkja matinn sem þau borða. Hólmfríður Þorgeirsdóttir, næringarfræðingur hjá Landlæknisembættinu var gestur Morgunútvarpsins. Kristján Guy Burgess, alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur sem kennir við HÍ, kom til okkar og fór yfir stöðuna sem upp er kominn eftir að Donald Trump tók þá ákvörðun að Bandaríkjaher yfirgefi norður Sýrland sem opnar fyrir árás Tyrkja á Kúrda á svæðinu, en Tyrkir hafa boðað árás á Kúrda. Trump segir að hann muni leggja efnahag Tyrkja í rúst ef þeir láti verða af árásinni sem virðist þvert á fyrri yfirlýsngu. Sævar Helgi Bragason mætti og talaði um vísindi.

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, umhverfisráðherra, sem jafnframt er utan þings, greindi frá því í gær að hann bjóði sig fram til varaformennsku í VG. Það vekur óneitanlega upp þá spuringu hvort hann vilji í framhaldinu fara í framboð fyrir flokkinn. Guðmundur kom til okkar í morgunkaffi. Brenglaður bransi, segir Jón Trausti Reynisson, annar ritstjóra Stundarinnar, um einkarekna fjölmiðla. Hann spyr hvers vegna hópur nokkurra helstu auðmanna Íslands er að niðurgreiða íslenska fjölmiðla í gengdarlausu tapi í samkeppni við aðra? Hann ræddi þetta við okkur. Skvísukynslóðinn hefur náð athygli landsmanna. Þetta eru börn, sem lifa á barnamauki í pokum sem þau sjúga matinn úr. Þau hafa hvorki lært að tyggja né þekkja matinn sem þau borða. Hólmfríður Þorgeirsdóttir, næringarfræðingur hjá Landlæknisembættinu var gestur Morgunútvarpsins. Kristján Guy Burgess, alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur sem kennir við HÍ, kom til okkar og fór yfir stöðuna sem upp er kominn eftir að Donald Trump tók þá ákvörðun að Bandaríkjaher yfirgefi norður Sýrland sem opnar fyrir árás Tyrkja á Kúrda á svæðinu, en Tyrkir hafa boðað árás á Kúrda. Trump segir að hann muni leggja efnahag Tyrkja í rúst ef þeir láti verða af árásinni sem virðist þvert á fyrri yfirlýsngu. Sævar Helgi Bragason mætti og talaði um vísindi.

Í þættinum var byrjað á að ræða við Áslaugu Örnu Sigurbjörnsdóttur, sem er nýtekin við embætti dómsmálaráðherra. Síðar í þættinum var rætt við Höllu Gunnarsdóttur, ráðgjafa forsætisráðherra, Borgar Þór Einarsson, aðstoðarmann utanríkisráðherra, og Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðing, um Íslandsheimsókn Mike Pence, varaforseta Bandaríkjanna, utanríkisstefnu Íslands, samskipti við Kína og Brexit. Umsjón: Bergsteinn Sigurðsson Tæknimaður: Ragnar Guðmundur Gunnarsson

Í þættinum var byrjað á að ræða við Áslaugu Örnu Sigurbjörnsdóttur, sem er nýtekin við embætti dómsmálaráðherra. Síðar í þættinum var rætt við Höllu Gunnarsdóttur, ráðgjafa forsætisráðherra, Borgar Þór Einarsson, aðstoðarmann utanríkisráðherra, og Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðing, um Íslandsheimsókn Mike Pence, varaforseta Bandaríkjanna, utanríkisstefnu Íslands, samskipti við Kína og Brexit. Umsjón: Bergsteinn Sigurðsson Tæknimaður: Ragnar Guðmundur Gunnarsson

With American intelligence drawing ever closer to the Cambridge ring, a plan is hatched to exfiltrate Donald Maclean -- a plot in which Guy Burgess had a key role. The revelation of the depth of Soviet infiltration would shake the very foundation of trust and cooperation between the the great western powers of the age.

We continue the story of Guy Burgess, Old Etonian and Communist Spy. Burgess rose within the ranks of elite British Society, whitewashing his colourful political history, and collecting information on behalf of the USSR. Meanwhile, Jessica and Janel enjoy the many silly names of early 20th century Britain and openly fantasize about women in red rubber body suits.

On the cusp of the Second World War, a privileged son of the British middle class made the fateful decision to begin a secret double life -- spying on his home country for the USSR. An ideological communist with little else in common with the Soviet Union, Burgess' motivations in serving a country in which he had little interest and less affection remain inexplicable to this day.

Stuttmyndin ÉG vann í vikunni til verðlauna á Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Höfundar myndarinnar og leikstjórar eru Vala Ómarsdóttir og Hallfríður Þóra Tryggvadóttir en hún byggir á sögu Uglu Stefaníu Kristjönudóttur Jónsdóttur kynjafræðings og trans-aðgerðarsinna. Við heyrðum í Völu Brexit samningurinn sem Theresa May lagði fyrir breska þingið í gær var kolfelldur. Enn er því allt í uppnámu í breskum stjórnmálum og alls óvíst hvert framhaldið verður. Kristján Guy Burgess, alþjóðastjórnmálafræðingur, kom til okkar og fór yfir stöðuna. Í fyrradag birtist myndband á Facebook sem Hólmgeir Austfjörð tók af Herjólfi á leið inn til Eyja í vonskuveðri. Myndbandið ferðaðist víða um heim og vakti mikla athygli. Við heyrðum aðeins í manninum sem var við stýrið, Gísli Valur Gíslason skipstjóri var á línunni. Mál málanna er auðvitað dómur mannréttindadómsins sem kveðin var upp í gær. Íslenska ríkið var þar dæmt brotlegt í Landsréttarmálinu svokallaða. Þórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir, alþingismaður, og Jóhannes Karl Sveinsson, hæstaréttarlögmaður, fóru yfir þetta með okkur. Guðmundur Jóhannsson mætti í sitt vikulega tæknihorn og í dag voru Rússland, Kína og GPS kerfið til umfjöllunar. Tónlist: Ylja - Sem betur fer. Sting - Windmills of your mind. Vök - Erase you. The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out. Susanne Vega - Left of center. The Cardigans - For what its worth. Ed Sheeran - Shape of you. GDNR og Auður - Hvað ef.

Gestir þáttarins voru Kristján Guy Burgess, Sonja Ýr Þorbergsdóttir, Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir, Jóhannes Þór Skúlason. Umræðuefni voru kjaradeila, traust til Alþingis og borgarstjórnar Reykjavíkur og Eurovision. Umsjónarmaður: Milla Ósk Magnúsdóttir.

Gestir þáttarins voru Kristján Guy Burgess, Sonja Ýr Þorbergsdóttir, Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir, Jóhannes Þór Skúlason. Umræðuefni voru kjaradeila, traust til Alþingis og borgarstjórnar Reykjavíkur og Eurovision. Umsjónarmaður: Milla Ósk Magnúsdóttir.

Margir eru uggandi yfir vaxandi spennu á alþjóðasviðinu. Varnaræfing Atlantshafsbandalagsins á Norður-Atlantshafi í haust er stærsta æfing bandalagsins frá 2015. Er skollið á nýtt kalt stríð? Donald Trump, Bandaríkjaforseti, segir að rússnesk stjórnvöld hafi brotið kjarnorkusáttmála Rússlands og Bandaríkjanna frá árinu 1987, um eyðingu meðaldrægra kjarnaflauga. Samningurinn sé því í reynd ekki lengur virkur. Og nýjustu fregnir herma að nú sé verið að endurvekja hina umtöluðu stjörnustríðáætlun frá valdatíð Ronalds Reagan. Freyr Eyjólfsson í New York velti fyrir sér spurningunni um það hvort nýtt vígbúnaðarkapphlaup sé að hefjast. Forseti Frakklands, Emmanuel Macron, hefur viðrað hugmyndir um að settur verði á fót Evrópuher til að vera viðbúinn ógnum frá Rússlandi og Kína, og til að aðstoða borgara í hættuástandi. Frakklandsforseti segir að Evrópa geti ekki treyst á Bandaríkjamenn í hernaðarmálum. Angela Merkel, Þýskalandskanslari, styður líka hugmyndina um Evrópuher. Donald Trump, Bandaríkjaforseti, segist móðgaður, Evrópubúum væri nær að axla meira af útgjöldum NATO. Við ræddum þessar hugmyndir um Evrópuher og samskiptin á alþjóðasviðinu við Kristján Guy Burgess, sérfræðing í alþjóðamálum. Hann lýsti því hversu flókið þetta svið er orðið, öryggi væri ekki einungis tryggt með hernaðarviðbúnaði, heldur samskiptum og samræðu. Leiðtogar Kína, Japan, Ástralíu, Kanada og fleiri ríkja eru nú á leið til Papúa Nýju Gíneu þar sem árlegur fundur APEC, samtaka Asíu- og Kyrrahafsríkja um efnahagssamstarf, verður haldinn um helgina. Papúa Nýja Gínea er langfátækasta land samtakanna og höfuðborgin Port Moresby, þar sem fundurinn fer fram, ein hættulegasta borg heims. Engu hefur þó verið til sparað við undirbúning fundarins. Vera Illugadóttir sagði frá. Bókin Flóra Íslands er komin út, sannkallað stórvirki, með teiknuðum litmyndum eftir Jón Baldur Hlíðberg. Höfundar eru Hörður Kristinsson og Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir. Að baki liggur vinna höfunda í áratugi. Þetta er ítarlegasta rit sem hefur komið út um íslenskar plöntur. Hörður hefur verið einn helsti fræðimaður landsins á sviði grasafræði í rúmlega hálfa öld. Suuna Valgerðardóttir ræddi við Hörð um bókina og plöntulífríkið á Íslandi. - Tónlist: Henrik Metz - En frydefuld sommertid; Errol Garner - I'm in a mood for love; Timo Väänänen - Riposti

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent, and secretive man's betrayal of his country and his friends, family and colleagues, has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean (W.W. Norton, 2018) meticulously documents this extraordinary story. In the first full biography of Maclean, author and publisher, Roland Philipps unravels Maclean's character and contradictions. Like many members of his generation, Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. The very model of a perfect diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his treasonous double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges and general erratic behavior, that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaluable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the British authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean's and his coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps's narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed “Orphan” for many years to come. A must read for anyone interested in this tales of spying, intrigue and treason. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent, and secretive man’s betrayal of his country and his friends, family and colleagues, has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean (W.W. Norton, 2018) meticulously documents this extraordinary story. In the first full biography of Maclean, author and publisher, Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions. Like many members of his generation, Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. The very model of a perfect diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his treasonous double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges and general erratic behavior, that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaluable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the British authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean’s and his coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed “Orphan” for many years to come. A must read for anyone interested in this tales of spying, intrigue and treason. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent, and secretive man’s betrayal of his country and his friends, family and colleagues, has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean (W.W. Norton, 2018) meticulously documents this extraordinary story. In the first full biography of Maclean, author and publisher, Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions. Like many members of his generation, Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. The very model of a perfect diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his treasonous double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges and general erratic behavior, that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaluable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the British authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean’s and his coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed “Orphan” for many years to come. A must read for anyone interested in this tales of spying, intrigue and treason. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent, and secretive man’s betrayal of his country and his friends, family and colleagues, has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean (W.W. Norton, 2018) meticulously documents this extraordinary story. In the first full biography of Maclean, author and publisher, Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions. Like many members of his generation, Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. The very model of a perfect diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his treasonous double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges and general erratic behavior, that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaluable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the British authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean’s and his coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed “Orphan” for many years to come. A must read for anyone interested in this tales of spying, intrigue and treason. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent, and secretive man’s betrayal of his country and his friends, family and colleagues, has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean (W.W. Norton, 2018) meticulously documents this extraordinary story. In the first full biography of Maclean, author and publisher, Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions. Like many members of his generation, Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. The very model of a perfect diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his treasonous double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges and general erratic behavior, that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaluable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the British authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean’s and his coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed “Orphan” for many years to come. A must read for anyone interested in this tales of spying, intrigue and treason. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent, and secretive man’s betrayal of his country and his friends, family and colleagues, has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean (W.W. Norton, 2018) meticulously documents this extraordinary story. In the first full biography of Maclean, author and publisher, Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions. Like many members of his generation, Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. The very model of a perfect diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his treasonous double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges and general erratic behavior, that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaluable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the British authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean’s and his coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed “Orphan” for many years to come. A must read for anyone interested in this tales of spying, intrigue and treason. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for @KGNU with Roland Philipps, about his new book, the first full biography of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious spies. Donald Maclean. Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "#CambridgeFive" #spyring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man’s betrayal has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents his extraordinary story. Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions, informed by a domineering father in a childhood at once liberal and austere. Maclean became infatuated with Communism during his school days, even before his time at Cambridge. A model diplomat, he rose through the ranks of the British Foreign Office rapidly, never arousing suspicion of his chilling double life. He married an American woman despite his sexual ambivalence and increasing antipathy to the United States. He was prone to alcoholic binges that should have blown his cover, yet they never found their way onto his record. A sworn enemy of capitalism, he had access to some of the greatest secrets of the time, transmitting invaulable intelligence to his Soviet handlers on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. Maclean was a spy who loved and loathed the role. In a brazen escapade, he successfully eluded the incredulous authorities to defect to the Soviet Union, where he worked and lived unrepentantly for the next thirty years. Philipps offers memorable portraits of Maclean’s coconspirators—Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—as well as the gifted Russian spymasters of the period; a vibrant evocation of Cambridge and London between the wars; colorful descriptions of Maclean’s postings in Paris, Cairo, and Washington, D.C.; and a riveting re-creation of the tense international code-breaking operation that ultimately exposed him. A gripping tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the mysterious and elusive man first codenamed "Orphan."

Matartíminn, verkefni á vegum Sölufélags garðyrkjumanna, boðar byltingu í næringu barna enda skiptir gríðarlega miklu máli hvað þeim er gefið að borða. Þetta segir Herborg Hjelm forstöðumaður Matartímans sem sest hjá okkur hér á eftir. Segja má að að dag séu ákveðin tímamót í samgöngusögu landsins því að hætt verður að innheimta veggjöld í Hvalfjarðargöngin um hádegið. Af því tilefni sláum við á þráðinn til Sævars Freys Þráinssonar, bæjarstjóra á Akranesi og heyrum í honum hljóðið í tilefni dagsins og spyrjum hann einnig um hvort Akurnesingum finnist koma til greina að hefja gjaldtöku á ný í göngin til að fjármagna tvöföldun þeirra. Ferðaþjónustan verður líka til umræðu hér í þættinum. Fyrr í mánuðinum talaði Grímur Sæmundsen, forstjóri Bláa lónsins og fyrrverandi formaður samtaka ferðaþjónustunnar, um að bókunarsíður gerðu íslenskum fyrirtækjum erfitt fyrir en umræddar síður krefjast þess að fyrirtæki greiði þeim allt að 30 prósent af sinni veltu. Fréttir vikunnar verða á sínum stað en þessa helgina eru 10 ár frá Glitnishelginni víðfrægu. Kristján Guy Burgess kemur til okkar, hann var aðstoðarmaður Össurar Skarphéðinssonar þegar hann var utanríkisráðherra - auk þess hefur hann fylgst náið með Guðmundar- og Geirfinnsmálinu gegnum tíðina, skrifaði m.a. handrit að heimildamynd um málið. Einnig kemur til okkar Guðrún Hálfdánardóttir blaðamaður af Morgunblaðinu. Hégómavísindahorn Freys Gígju Gunnarssonar verður í banastuði á þessum föstudegi.

Samkvæmt tölum sem Íslandsstofa lét taka sama fyrir sig varð um 300 prósenta aukning á fjölda greina þar sem ísland var nefnt á nafn í fjölmiðlum í Evrópu og Norður Ameríku eftir leikinn gegn Argentínu á laugardag. Sama á við um samfélagsmiðla, nafn íslands kom þar mun oftar fyrir eftir leikinn en fyrir hann. Inga Hlín Pálsdóttir hjá Íslandsstofu fer yfir þetta með okkur. Eins og svo oft áður er fullt af vafaatriðum í leikjum HM og nú þegar hafa dómarar þurft að skoða nokkur atriði með hjálp myndavélanna og breytt dómum eftir þá skoðun. Það eru ekki allir á eitt sáttir með þessa tækni og hvenær og hvernig hún er notuð. Kristinn Jakobsson, formaður dómaranefndar KSÍ, ræðir við okkur um þetta. Stjórn Donalds Trump hefur verið harðlega gagnrýnd fyrir grimmilega meðferð á börnum sem aðskilin eru frá foreldrum sínum þegar þau koma ólöglega yfir landamærin. Börnin eru vistuð í vöruhúsum og gömlum stórmörkuðum og hefur mannréttindastjóri Sameinuðu þjóðanna meðal annars sagt stefnu stjórnvalda svívirðilega og hafa samtök amerískra barnalækna sagt að ofbeldi sem þetta geti haft í för með sér óafturkræfan skaða fyrir börnin fyrir lífstíð. Fyrrverandi og núverandi forsetafrú Bandaríkjanna hafa einnig gagnrýnt þessa stefnu sem Trump segir að sé ætluð sem fælingarmáttur. Við fáum til okkar Kristján Guy Burgess alþjóðastjórnmálafræðing, til að ræða þetta. Sævar Helgi Bragason kemur í sína vikulegu heimsókn og fræðir okkur um vísindin.

We are joined once again by the lawyer and university lecturer Adeyinka Makinde for an in-depth interview on the subject of his recent essay, "Britain and Russia: An Enduring But Fruitless Rivalry". The crisis between Britain and Russia over the alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal is the latest episode in what has been in recent years a de facto "Cold War" between Russia and the West. However, friction between Russia and Britain is longstanding; indeed it has spanned the centuries—a recurring clash of civilisations fuelled by cultural differences, imperial ambition and ideological antagonism—and manifest today in the West's attempts to maintain its global dominance in the face of a surgent Eurasia with Russia at its centre. But with the ideological "Cold War" of the Soviet years a thing of the past, we must surely pause to ask: Why is Britain prolonging this fruitless "rivalry" with a distant Eurasian power? Whose interests does it serve? And is there, perhaps, a more constructive and, frankly, safer way forward? Adeyinka Makinde trained for the law as a barrister. He lectures in criminal law and public law at a university in London, and has an academic research interest in intelligence & security matters. He is a contributor to a number of websites for which he has written essays and commentaries on international relations, politics and military history. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International and the Voice of Russia. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)

We are joined once again by the lawyer and university lecturer Adeyinka Makinde for an in-depth interview on the subject of his recent essay, "Britain and Russia: An Enduring But Fruitless Rivalry". The crisis between Britain and Russia over the alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal is the latest episode in what has been in recent years a de facto "Cold War" between Russia and the West. However, friction between Russia and Britain is longstanding; indeed it has spanned the centuries—a recurring clash of civilisations fuelled by cultural differences, imperial ambition and ideological antagonism—and manifest today in the West's attempts to maintain its global dominance in the face of a surgent Eurasia with Russia at its centre. But with the ideological "Cold War" of the Soviet years a thing of the past, we must surely pause to ask: Why is Britain prolonging this fruitless "rivalry" with a distant Eurasian power? Whose interests does it serve? And is there, perhaps, a more constructive and, frankly, safer way forward? Adeyinka Makinde trained for the law as a barrister. He lectures in criminal law and public law at a university in London, and has an academic research interest in intelligence & security matters. He is a contributor to a number of websites for which he has written essays and commentaries on international relations, politics and military history. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International and the Voice of Russia. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)

It’s Bigmouth vs. much-loved weirdo music outlet The Quietus in our first Podclash. JOHN DORAN and ANNA WOOD of The Quietus join Andrew and Matt to talk about new magazine memoir ‘The Story Of The Face’, discover vintage Arabic dance music, review BBC4’s documentary on Cambridge spy Guy Burgess – and tell us what “dungeonsynth” and “boiling the goat” mean. Intrigued? You will be. Visit http://thequietus.com for your Ordnance Survey of music’s outer limits. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Matthew Stevenson speaks with author Andrew Lownie talks about his new book, Stalin's Englishman, a biography of the Russian spy Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge Ring that penetrated the heart of British foreign policy in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

Guy Burgess was arguably the most influential spy of the Cambridge Five, a covert group of Englishmen who traded Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War. And yet, 70 years after the height of his espionage, Burgess' name and legacy still remain widely unknown. Today on Unknown History, Giles Milton hosts author and historian Andrew Lownie, who spent 30 years uncovering Burgess' enigmatic life in Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2kIrqfo

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author and literary agent Andrew Lownie, who has been researching Guy Burgess and the Cambridge 5 for over three decades. The culmination of this research is Lownie’s book, Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring.

About the book: Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. About the author: Andrew Lownie was born in Kenya, brought up in Bermuda and educated in Asheville, North Carolina before attending the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. A former journalist for The London Times and the British representative for the Washington-based National Intelligence Centre, he helped set up the Spy Museum in Washington. Now a successful literary agent and the President of The Biographers Club , his books include an acclaimed life of the writer and former Governor General of Canada John Buchan. This book lecture took place at The Institute of World Politics on October 11, 2016.

Guy Burgess was a brilliant young Englishman who rose through the ranks of MI5 and MI6 during the Cold War. But as a member of 'The Cambridge Spies', he betrayed his country by regularly passing on highly sensitive secret documents to his Soviet handlers.Historian Andrew Lownie, author of 'Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess' - a Guardian Book of the Year and The Times Best Biography of the Year - will talk about how Burgess was able to avoid exposure as a traitor to his country through his trademark charisma and a network of powerful political connections.

Andrew Lownie talks at the renowned Oldie Literary Lunch about his book: Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess. Sponsored by Doro, number one in the senior mobile market

Author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg introduces his latest historical novel, Now is the Time, which centres on the 14th-cenury uprising. Meanwhile, we talk to Andrew Lownie about his new biography of a key member of the Cambridge Spy Ring, Guy Burgess. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Dobbs champions the life of Guy Burgess - journalist, diplomat and spy. Between 1935 and 1951, Guy Burgess worked for a Conservative MP, the BBC, MI6 and the Foreign Office. Brilliant, flamboyant and apparently shambolic, he also shot like an arrow to the heart of the Establishment and secretly and systematically betrayed its secrets to the KGB. Matthew Parris chairs as Michael explains why he believes that Guy Burgess was a Great Life. Burgess's biographer Stewart Purvis, who uncovered the only known audio recording of Guy Burgess, is the expert witness. Producer: Julia Johnson.

The Conflict Information Consortium has a primary focus on complex, society-wide intractable conflict.  It has pioneered efforts to use information technologies to provide people from all walks of life with the information that they need in order to deal with these incredibly difficult conflicts more constructively. The Consortium sees such efforts to enhance and mobilize the skills of the general population as critical to efforts to deal with these complex, society-wide conflicts. Guy and Heidi Burgess both earned their Ph.D.s in sociology from the University of Colorado in 1979. They then did postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for several years as public policy conflict consultants. In 1988, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, they established (along with others) the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium (now called the Conflict Information Consortium), which they have co-directed ever since. For more information:  Beyond Intractability Zena Zumeta, internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators.  She is president of the  Mediation Training & Consultation Institute, Zena Zumeta Mediation Services, and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Zena is a lawyer and a former president of the Academy of Family Mediators.  She is the recipient of the the Michigan Lifetime Achievement in Mediation Award; the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a man who, among many other achievements, gave his name to a famous report in the 1970s on the future of broadcasting - Lord Annan. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his long and distinguished career which has ranged through the Cabinet War Office, King's College Cambridge, The Royal Opera House and London University - as well as recalling many friends and acquaintances from his university days, from EM Forster to the notorious Guy Burgess.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 7th Symphony Final Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Iliad in Greek & English by Homer Luxury: Bath essence

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a man who, among many other achievements, gave his name to a famous report in the 1970s on the future of broadcasting - Lord Annan. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his long and distinguished career which has ranged through the Cabinet War Office, King's College Cambridge, The Royal Opera House and London University - as well as recalling many friends and acquaintances from his university days, from EM Forster to the notorious Guy Burgess. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 7th Symphony Final Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Iliad in Greek & English by Homer Luxury: Bath essence