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Secret Listeners who bugged the Nazis

Judi meets historian Helen Fry who has written a book called 'The M Room: Secret Listeners who bugged the Nazis', and also one of those secret listeners, Fritz Lustig.

Judi meets historian Helen Fry who has written a book called 'The M Room: Secret Listeners who bugged the Nazis', and also one of those secret listeners, Fritz Lustig.

Thousands of German POWs held captive in England during World War II were bugged by "secret listeners" who were themselves German refugees, working for the British.
Fritz Lustig is one of the last surviving listeners to explain how the prisoners were lulled into divulging secrets of the Nazi war machine.

Plus buttock clenching, "The Talky Bit". and Guess The Guest. Competition entries are taken by phone only from 10.30am to 11am.

3 hours

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Tue 5 Feb 2013 09:00

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  • Tue 5 Feb 2013 09:00