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Radio Cornwall,6 mins
"They would drop agents into Brittany, all that secret stuff..." - Helen Fry on her new book on MI9
Jack MurleyAvailable for over a year
Picture the scene. It's the Second World War, and you're an Allied soldier or pilot who is stuck behind enemy lines. How do you stay alive - and how on Earth are you going to get yourself to safety? If you were lucky, you'd be put in touch with MI9 - a secret organisation with agents who would risk their lives to get you home from occupied Europe. Helen Fry has written a new book about the organisation called 'MI9: Escape and Evasion'. She's been explaining more about it to our weekend presenter Jack Murley, including its remarkable links to Cornwall.
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