Bonus Episode 29

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/