Heroes of the Resistance: A Woman of No Importance
HOPE not hate
English - May 15, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsArts Society & Culture politics hope not hate racism anti-semitism fascism antifascism news europe democracy brexit Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sonia Purnell discusses Virginia Hall, who she wrote about in A Woman of No Importance. Working for SOE Virginia was able to do what many of her male colleagues had tried and failed to do- she build a strong resistance network that was able to undermine fascist authority in Vichy France from below.
Additional audio taken from School for Danger, licensed by IWM.