DESCRIPTION:
As Britain began to recover from the great depression, the lack of employment led to a rise in crime, and gangs operated under cover of darkness, cracking safes in businesses across London. The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 plummeted the nation into a period of uncertainty and turmoil. While young soldiers fought valiantly on the front lines across Nazi-occupied Europe, each nation utilised its own secret network of spies, to try and infiltrate enemy forces and gather information using covert tactics in an effort to win the war…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, editing assistance, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Casualty by Shimmer
St Mary by Chelsea McGough And Stephen Keech
Sleep by Stephen Keech
Stopped Time by Moments
Dorset Summer by Moments
After the Fog by Moments
Falling by Adrien Walther
The Anarchist by Cody Martin
Ways of the Hunt by Cody Martin
Tainted By Darkness by Cody Martin
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REFERENCES:
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Daily Telegraph, Oct 8, 1939
Daily Telegraph, Mar 8, 1939
Daily Telegraph, Jul 7, 1939
Daily Telegraph, Oct 8, 1960
Daily Telegraph, Oct 12, 1960
Daily Telegraph, Sept 10, 1974
Daily Telegraph, Dec 16, 1997
Sunday Pictorial, Apr 7, 1957
The Journal, Feb 16, 1994
Sunday Telegraph, Jan 13, 1980
The Observer, Oct 4, 1981
Liverpool Echo, Jul 7, 1939
Western Morning News, Jul 8, 1939
Western Mail, Jul 7, 1939
Western Gazette, Mar 10, 1939
Evening Standard, Oct 7, 1938
Evening Standard, Feb 14, 1939
Evening Standard, Feb 14, 1939
Evening Standard, Mar 7, 1939
Evening Standard, Mar 11, 1939
Evening Standard, Apr 2, 1954
Evening Standard, Mar 30, 1995
Daily Herald, Oct 8, 1938
Daily Herald, Oct 15, 1938
Daily Herald, Oct 28, 1938
Daily Herald, Dec 8, 1938
Daily Herald, Feb 7, 1939
Daily Herald, Sept 28, 1939
Daily Herald, Mar 24, 1939
Birmingham Mail, Apr 25, 1939
Birmingham Mail, Mar 13, 1940
Birmingham Post, Mar 24, 1939
Birmingham Post, Dec 16, 1997
Daily Record, Feb 16, 1939
Daily Record, Mar 8, 1939
Evening Despatch, Mar 11, 1939
The Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror, Jul 8, 1939
The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Feb 18, 1939
Nottingham Evening Post, Oct 7, 1938
Acton Gazette and Express, Oct 14, 1938
The Guardian, Dec 18, 1997
The People, Dec 6, 1953
Westminster and Pimlico News, Jan 15, 1954
Daily Mail (London, England), December 16, 1997
Times, The (London, England), December 16, 1997
Evening Standard (London, England), June 13, 2001
Daily Telegraph, The (London, England), July 5, 2001
Guardian, The (London, England), July 5, 2001
Independent, The (London, England), July 5, 2001
Times, The (London, England), July 5, 2001
Birmingham Post, The (England), July 5, 2001
Agence France-Presse, January 9, 2007
Times, The (London, England), January 9, 2007
Express, The (London, England), January 10, 2007
Express on Sunday, The (London, England), January 14, 2007
Guardian, The (London, England), January 24, 2007
Express, The (London, England), January 26, 2007
Telegraph, The (London, England), January 27, 2007
Observer, The (London, England), January 28, 2007
Times, The (London, England), May 15, 2007
Racing Post, The (England), August 30, 2007
Hertfordshire County Publications (England), February 8, 2008
Washington Times, The (DC), May 7, 2010
Times, The (London, England), November 12, 2011
Folkestone Herald (England), November 17, 2011
Sunderland Echo (England), September 9, 2015
Journal, The (Newcastle, England), July 5, 2017
Welwyn & Hatfield Times (England), January 27, 2021
Daily Mirror, The (London, England), June 12, 2021
Times, The (London, England), July 11, 2022
ARCHIVES
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/eddie-chapman
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/documents-from-the-chapman-case
BOOKS
The Eddie Chapman Story by Frank Owen
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
Mrs ZigZag by Betty Chapman and Ronald L. Bonewitz
ONLINE ARTICLES
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/secret-agent-man-the-story-of-eddie-chapman/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/24/biography.features11
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/world-war-ii/espionage-and-the-soe/
https://biographics.org/eddie-chapman-world-war-iis-most-unlikely-double-agent/