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00:02In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, dropped their first women agents into
00:09Nazi-occupied France. They're hand-picked by spymaster Vera Atkins.
00:17Are you prepared to take the fight to the Nazis?
00:22Behind enemy lines? In occupied France?
00:26As a spy.
00:28But they quickly become targets for the Gestapo.
00:34Odette and Peter Churchill have been captured.
00:37What?
00:38Keep those hands.
00:41Don't worry. You'll be safe with me.
00:46Now Vera's newest recruit, Noor Inayat Khan, is playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with Hitler's intelligence forces.
00:57Do you want people to make you as an agent?
01:01No, of course not. Sorry.
01:03Sorry won't save you from the Gestapo's cell.
01:06But with D-Day approaching, more agents need to be trained.
01:17Good shot.
01:20Good shot.
01:41Send even more agents to strengthen the circuits for D-Day and expect heavy casualties.
01:49But as the Nazis crack down, how long can they remain free?
01:53And how much will they risk in the fight against Hitler's deadly regime?
02:11F-Section wait anxiously for news from Paris.
02:17The day before, they'd received an alarming message from Francis Suttle, the organiser of the Prosper Circuit.
02:25F-Section's largest, based in the French capital.
02:32What? What is it?
02:34Noor was almost arrested at a letterbox.
02:36Suttle claims was blown.
02:38He says if Noor had gone there yesterday, she'd have been met by the Gestapo searching the safe house.
02:43He thinks their security has been compromised.
02:46And this means that the Nazis might know what's going on, and arrests could follow soon.
02:53He is not letting anybody send any information, send other agents.
02:58He's not sure what's going on, and he stops all these flights going in and out of Europe.
03:09Sir.
03:11You should see this.
03:14That'll be all.
03:19Sir?
03:21What is it?
03:23A flash message.
03:25Intel from an agent in Paris.
03:28Suttle and his wireless opera butcher, Gilbert Norman, have disappeared.
03:31Disappeared?
03:34I think they've been arrested.
03:37Arrested?
03:40Message to be confirmed.
03:43Sir, this intel has been marked flimsy.
03:47What if it isn't?
03:50Vera and Buckmaster do not know what's happening in Paris.
03:53If Suttle and Norman have been arrested and are being interrogated by the Gestapo, if they reveal the secrets, then
04:03every single agent that they have in Paris is in danger.
04:16In Paris, Noor is unsure what's happening to the Prosper Circuit.
04:22All she knows are rumours of arrests.
04:27Agents have gone to ground, and Noor can't risk making contact with any other elements of the circuit, in case
04:34they betray her.
04:40Do not do that again.
04:42Do not do that again.
04:44What?
04:46That.
04:48In England, you pour milk first, then tea.
04:51In France, we pour tea first, then milk.
04:57A real French woman would never do that.
05:03No, no.
05:06Oh, no, indeed.
05:08These are basic things that the SOE have taught Noor from the start, and yet the lessons haven't sunk in.
05:15It was incredibly important that any agent going into France blended in, and it was just the little tiny things
05:22that ended up being the huge catastrophe that could see them arrested.
05:27Do you want people to make you as an agent?
05:30No, of course not. Sorry.
05:32Sorry won't save you from a Gestapo cell.
05:36But this isn't the only sign that she's a foreign agent.
05:42I'm buying you new clothes.
05:47What's wrong with my clothes?
05:50Your jacket.
05:52Your English-looking Macintosh jacket.
05:55A Parisian woman wouldn't be caught dead in it.
06:01We'll buy you new, French-looking clothes.
06:07Noor hadn't even finished her SOE training.
06:11With her resistance cell in chaos, now she's been dropped in the deep end and is trying to tread water.
06:29In London, Vera and Buckmaster wait for news on the Prosper Circuit.
06:39But, worryingly, no further messages come through.
06:46Meanwhile, Vera's search for more women spies continues.
07:01It was very important that the recruiting of agents continued.
07:05D-Day was approaching and so the SOE wanted to make sure that when that signal for D-Day came,
07:13they could literally almost flick a switch and they were ready to fight back.
07:19It means finding more agents.
07:24Vera pours over personnel files for potential new recruits.
07:30One is 22-year-old Violette Sabo.
07:35She was born in a British hospital in Paris, of a French mother and an English father.
07:43And then she was schooled in France.
07:46One of the most important things that they needed was somebody who could speak French fluently,
07:52blend in, knew about France, and she had all of those skills already.
07:56But she had some real personal motives for wanting to go back into occupied territory.
08:02Part of the reason is clearly because Etienne, her husband,
08:07had been killed at El Alamein with the free French.
08:13So Etienne never met his daughter.
08:16She was born and unfortunately he died before he had the opportunity to meet her.
08:22And it would have made Violette so fervently passionate about wanting to go out to France
08:29and to fight against the Nazis.
08:31So Violette really would very much like to get her own back and do whatever she could.
08:39And Vera now turns to another recruit put forward by SOE, Yvonne Bazden.
08:48Yvonne Bazden was the daughter of a British father who married a French woman shortly after the First World War.
08:55She spent most of her early childhood in France, which meant she spoke French perfectly.
09:01She felt very much at home in France.
09:03She'd lived there for years before coming to Britain as a teenager.
09:06So in many ways she was the ideal recruit for F Section.
09:12Both Violette Sabo and Yvonne Bazden have strong motivations.
09:20They are assigned to SOE training.
09:28F Section are desperate for news from the Prosper Circuit.
09:34Buck, what is it?
09:37Call sign Butcher. He's trying to transmit from Paris.
09:41After 12 days of radio silence, they get the message they've been waiting for.
09:53What's it say, Buck?
09:55Confirmation.
09:59Francis Suttle has been captured.
10:02The head of the Prosper Circuit, F Section's largest and most important, is in German hands.
10:15Sir, this message, it's unusual.
10:18Has it come to Eclipse?
10:22Butcher's security check is missing.
10:25All SOE agents are trained very carefully that when they send an encoded message,
10:32they have to also at the end send a security check.
10:36These are check words that only they will know.
10:39It could just be atmospheric conditions playing havoc with the signal.
10:43True.
10:46Butcher might also be on the run.
10:50The Gestapo looking for him, he might not have had time to include it.
10:55Could it have been sent by Noor?
10:58Using Butcher's set, or she wouldn't have his specific codes?
11:02Or Butcher's been captured and has given his transmission codes to the Gestapo.
11:07Impossible.
11:08He'd have shot himself before he did that.
11:12Send a reply.
11:15Butcher, you've forgotten your security checks.
11:18Show more care in the future.
11:21The vital wireless link from London to Paris is still in place, for now.
11:28But the Prosper Circuit is fragile.
11:38For those SOE agents on the ground in Paris, their fate is becoming increasingly uncertain.
11:46Contact has been lost with the leaders of the circuit, and it's assumed they're in Gestapo custody.
11:53People are being arrested.
11:56Safe houses are being compromised.
11:58They don't know what to do.
12:00Who can they report to?
12:02Who can they trust?
12:04Where should they go?
12:05What should they do?
12:07However, Noor is still in Paris, and she's still transmitting to London.
12:15F-Section tries to untangle the chaos.
12:21Another report.
12:22There's been more arrests.
12:26How many agents is that now?
12:29Lost track, Boddington.
12:33The Gestapo have raided another weapons dump.
12:37Who is betraying them to the Germans?
12:40If you read these reports, the list of possible traitors is endless.
12:43Sir, that can't be true.
12:44And nothing can be verified.
12:46These reports aren't worth the paper they're written on.
12:49The only thing we know is there's something wrong in Prosper.
12:59Fuck.
13:03We can never make sense of what's happening set on our backsides in London.
13:07If I can take my own wireless operator, I can fly out to Paris, make contact somehow with the circuit,
13:13and work out what the hell is happening once and for all.
13:16Nick.
13:17No.
13:17What if you're called?
13:19It was enormously risky to send Boddington into Paris because he was number two in SOE's F-Section.
13:28So if he was captured and interrogated and he talked, the whole of F-Section could have been blown out
13:36of the water.
13:41Despite the danger, Buckmaster gives him the green light.
13:47It's fine.
13:49Fly to France.
13:51Make your way to Paris and report back what you find.
13:54Good.
13:57Send a message to Butcher.
13:59Arrange a meeting.
14:23Boddington with his wireless operator, Jack Agazarian, are infiltrated into France.
14:31They land just outside Soussel, in the west of the country.
14:47Greeting them is SOE Air Movement Officer, Henri Derricourt.
14:54Nicholas.
14:56Henri.
14:57How long has it been?
14:58Too long.
15:00Jack Agazarian, Henri Derricourt.
15:04It's good to have someone out here we can trust.
15:06I'm your man.
15:08I've arranged a meeting in Paris with a contact close to Soutil.
15:11Excellent work.
15:13Hopefully, they can clear this whole mess up.
15:17Boddington's really relieved because this means he can get down to what's been going on in the Prosper Circuit.
15:22Is it salvageable what's been going on?
15:25And maybe, you know, this Derricourt contact is going to know a lot more.
15:36It's not going to know a lot more.
15:37Back in Britain, new recruits Yvonne and Violette begin their SOE training.
15:44Designed to identify their strengths and weaknesses for action in the field.
15:52The women had the same training as the men of SOE.
15:59It was incredibly gruelling.
16:01It was physically, mentally exhausting.
16:05Very, very hard work.
16:07Things like obstacle courses and map reading.
16:13The women would have been learning skills that they had never thought in a million years they were going to
16:19need.
16:19?
16:43Lee!
16:52Next comes weapons handling and shooting practice.
16:58Violette's report says that she was a crack shot,
17:01that she was excellent with firearms.
17:08The agents then move on to parachute training.
17:15All agents have to conduct four jumps
17:18and for Yvonne, it's a terrifying experience.
17:25There are accounts saying the men were frightened too.
17:29It wasn't just the women.
17:30And it's not surprising because accidents were pretty common.
17:33In the case of Violette Szabo,
17:35she landed awkwardly and damaged her ankle.
17:39It seems a pretty intense injury.
17:42It took several weeks to recuperate.
17:49In London, Vera keeps tabs on her agent's progress.
17:54Violette's training report is on the whole very positive.
17:58She's confident, she's plucky, she's physically very tough.
18:03Pretty much everything that they want in an agent.
18:06But the instructors also noted other things that concerned them about Violette.
18:12They say that she's fatalistic in her outlook,
18:15that she lacks a sense of responsibility.
18:17So, really, some quite negative things they're saying about her.
18:21But Vera Atkins saw the steel that was in Violette.
18:27She would always stand up and fight where necessary.
18:32She had this other quality which did shine through.
18:36A personality, a real personality.
18:40Yes, Vera would have wanted all of that.
18:44Violette is assigned the role of courier.
18:49Yvonne's training report is relatively positive as well,
18:53and in particular with reference to her wireless skills.
18:56So, it was obvious, really, that the role assigned to her was wireless operator.
19:02It's promising news.
19:04More and more women agents are coming through,
19:07soon to be deployed to circuits in France.
19:11But since Noor's wireless message that contact has been lost with leaders of Prosper,
19:17F section are on tenterhooks.
19:22Who has escaped Gestapo arrest?
19:25And how long can they remain free?
19:57You're here.
19:58in France.
19:59Who else is with you?
20:01No one, sir.
20:03The meeting with Sir Till's contact was a trap.
20:06Butcher is definitely
20:07in German hands.
20:10Well, are you sure?
20:11One hundred percent.
20:13Aghazarian and I flipped a coin to see you should go.
20:16It fell to him, so he went.
20:18I waited in the safe house,
20:19but he didn't return.
20:21If I had gone, I'd now be sat
20:23in a Gestapo torture chamber.
20:27Poor Aghazarian.
20:36Send a message to F-Section.
20:38Arrange a Lysander pickup immediately.
20:41I need to get back to London.
20:45Sir,
20:47were you followed?
20:55Send a message.
20:57We'll find you in your safe house.
21:00They can't trust anyone,
21:04nor has to move.
21:14Meanwhile,
21:15Boddington returns to London.
21:29Buck, here's my report.
21:34Prosper is destroyed.
21:37Destroyed?
21:38Entirely?
21:40It's impossible to know
21:41which agents are active,
21:43which agents are in Gestapo custody,
21:45and who can be trusted.
21:48The Gestapo are raiding weapons depots,
21:51making arrests.
21:53Prosper as a circuit is a corpse.
21:57It's worse than they could have imagined.
22:00The most important
22:01SOE circuit operating in France
22:03has been absolutely destroyed.
22:06The most important members of it
22:08are in the hands of the SS Gestapo.
22:12It means safe houses are not safe.
22:14People are being arrested.
22:16It means that the people
22:17who were in any way connected
22:18with the circuit
22:19are in grave, grave danger.
22:22There is something else.
22:25One of our agents
22:26has been contacted
22:27by German military intelligence
22:30about Deracour.
22:33Deracour?
22:35This
22:35Adver officer
22:38claims that Deracour
22:39is letting the Gestapo
22:40copy all our agents'
22:42unencoded letters
22:43before sending them back to London.
22:46Preposterous.
22:47I know.
22:50But this agent of ours
22:51will be sending this report in.
22:54Officially.
22:56German military intelligence
22:58hated the Gestapo
22:59and are trying to get us
23:01to close down the network.
23:03Then the Gestapo
23:04won't have anybody to arrest.
23:06This rumour is just that.
23:08A rumour.
23:09We can't and shouldn't act on it.
23:14Agreed.
23:17But it's clear
23:18to Buckmaster and Vera
23:20that the Prosper circuit
23:21is blown.
23:24One hundred and sixty-seven agents
23:26are rounded up,
23:28arrested,
23:29many of them tortured,
23:30and some of them killed
23:32by the Gestapo.
23:34The Prosper circuit
23:36was the most important
23:37in France.
23:39And it's a disaster
23:41for F section
23:42that it's been blown.
23:44It was crucial
23:45to the planning for D-Day
23:48because it was a centre
23:49of the resistance.
23:52Try and get as many agents
23:54back to London as possible.
24:13but one agent
24:14who doesn't return
24:15is Noor.
24:20Buckmaster writes to Noor
24:22and says,
24:23come back.
24:24It's very dangerous.
24:25We'll organise a flight for you
24:27and get you out.
24:28But Noor says
24:30she's the last link left.
24:32She's the last radio operator
24:33standing between Paris
24:35and England.
24:37and I have to be here.
24:39If I've gone,
24:40there's no radio operator left.
24:41She feels she can rebuild
24:43this circuit.
24:44And Buckmaster receives
24:45this message
24:46and he asked her
24:47to lie low
24:48and be very careful.
24:56Despite the danger,
24:59Buckmaster realises
25:00just how vital she is
25:02and keeps her
25:03in her post.
25:10She becomes
25:11one of F section's
25:12most important agents
25:14as she is their one
25:16remaining radio operator
25:18in Paris.
25:22And a letter
25:23she sends to Vera
25:24gives hope
25:26that all
25:26might not be lost
25:28after all.
25:38Dear Miss Atkins,
25:40excuse pencil.
25:45Your bird has brought me luck.
25:47I remember you so often.
25:50You cheered me up
25:51so sweetly
25:52before I left.
25:54Lots of things
25:55have happened
25:55and I haven't been able
25:57to settle down properly.
26:00Still,
26:01my contacts are regular
26:02and I'm awfully happy.
26:06Lots of love.
26:07Yours.
26:08Noor.
26:29Noor is clearly operating
26:31under great stress.
26:33She's meant to be sending
26:34in messages regularly,
26:35but most of the wireless
26:36messages she's sending
26:37are outside the scheduled times.
26:39And this shows that she's
26:40having to move around
26:41and having to adapt a lot.
26:44And Vera has reason to worry.
26:48The Gestapo in Paris
26:50are now aware
26:51of a lone British wireless operator
26:54and are on the hunt.
27:02Sir,
27:02both Violet Szabo
27:03and Yvonne Baston
27:05are progressing well.
27:06Very good.
27:07Both their training reports
27:09show an increasing aptitude
27:10for...
27:11Sir,
27:11Miss Atkins,
27:12an urgent message
27:13from the signals room.
27:15Dismissed.
27:19Madeline has been injured
27:21and is now in a hospital.
27:24Madeline is
27:25Noor's alias.
27:28This message is coded.
27:32Noor has been compromised.
27:35Or captured.
27:36Is that possible?
27:40The intel comes from
27:42a woman called Sonia
27:43claiming to be an informant.
27:45But we don't have
27:47any informants
27:48on our books
27:49called Sonia.
27:55So,
27:56who is Sonia?
27:59They didn't know
28:01who she was.
28:02Was this a joke?
28:03Was it something
28:04to confuse them?
28:05Was this even
28:05a Gestapo ruse?
28:07What was going on?
28:10We can't
28:11verify
28:13who Sonia is.
28:15The message
28:16can't be trusted.
28:24I think for now,
28:25Vera,
28:26we have to ignore it.
28:29More rumours.
28:32They push forward
28:34with their plan
28:34for Noor
28:35to salvage
28:36the Prosper circuit.
28:47Sir,
28:48a message just received
28:49for callsign nurse.
28:51Nurse?
28:53That's Noor's wireless
28:55callsign.
29:01Previous safe house
29:02was unsafe.
29:04She's moved
29:05to another.
29:08But she is
29:09up and running again.
29:12Clever girl,
29:13you're Noor.
29:15It seems that
29:16despite Sonia's warning,
29:18Noor outwitted
29:19the Gestapo
29:20and is safe.
29:24Sir,
29:25there's something
29:26you should know.
29:28Noor's fist
29:30seems off.
29:33Each
29:34wireless operator
29:35had what was known
29:36as a fist.
29:36It was their way
29:38of using the Morse key
29:39to type Morse code.
29:41It could be as simple
29:42as how fast
29:43they tapped
29:44or the gaps
29:45they left in between
29:46the dots and the dashes
29:47or just something
29:48that was very unique
29:49about it
29:50and the person
29:51working
29:51as their opposite
29:53back in headquarters
29:54would be able
29:55to recognise
29:56the fist
29:57and it's a very
29:58reliable way
29:59of recognising
30:00which agent
30:02is using
30:02the machine.
30:04And Noor's fist
30:05had become
30:06unusual.
30:08What are you saying?
30:10Someone else
30:11might have sent
30:11the message.
30:14So how can we
30:16be certain
30:16nurse
30:17is really Noor?
30:22Send a reply.
30:24Ask questions
30:25only Noor would
30:26know the answers to.
30:28These would be
30:29to do with her family
30:30or childhood
30:32or something
30:32very personal
30:33that only the two
30:34of them would have
30:34known.
30:35If these came
30:36unanswered
30:37or they were vague
30:38she would know
30:39that Noor had been
30:39captured.
30:41Excellent thinking.
30:43Draft a list
30:44of questions,
30:44Miss Adkins.
30:45then send
30:46the message.
30:47Sir.
30:48The questions
30:49are sent.
30:50It's an anxious
30:51wait.
31:01With questions
31:02over Noor's identity
31:04still hanging
31:04in the air,
31:05work at F-Section
31:07ploughs ahead.
31:09Buckmaster
31:10begins making plans
31:11for D-Day.
31:12D-Day is approaching
31:14but nobody knows
31:15exactly when
31:16it's going to happen.
31:18It's a closely
31:19guarded secret.
31:20But Buckmaster
31:22has plans for Vera.
31:24He wants her
31:25to set up a station,
31:26a kind of forward unit
31:28within France
31:29after the landings.
31:31But he has a problem.
31:34Vera Atkins
31:36isn't British.
31:38She's actually
31:39Romanian.
31:40Only he and Vera
31:42know this
31:42within F-Section.
31:44Romania was fighting
31:45on the side
31:46of Nazi Germany
31:47during the war.
31:49Technically,
31:49she was an enemy alien.
31:53But with D-Day looming,
31:55this has to change.
32:01Vera applies
32:02for British nationality
32:05and is interviewed
32:06by the Home Office.
32:09You'll find
32:10a letter of recommendation
32:11from my commanding officer.
32:19Yes.
32:23Buckmaster writes
32:24a letter
32:24to the Home Office.
32:25He very much
32:26backs her application
32:28and says
32:29that without
32:30the British citizenship,
32:32it's going to be
32:32very difficult
32:33for Vera
32:33to be able
32:34to go to the continent
32:36and operate
32:37as a representative
32:39of Britain
32:39if she, in fact,
32:41still has
32:41a Romanian passport.
32:43Without British papers,
32:45it would be impossible
32:46for Vera
32:47to work freely
32:48in liberated France.
32:51There is
32:52something else.
32:54My Romanian nationality.
32:57We were hoping
32:58there was some way
32:59to complete my application
33:01without it being mentioned.
33:05I'm sure you understand
33:06what with the work I do
33:08for the war effort,
33:10how sensitive
33:11it might be.
33:14It is essential
33:15that the people
33:17I meet,
33:18the people
33:18that I work with,
33:19never learn
33:21that I am Romanian.
33:22This is about
33:23national security itself.
33:26It's a persuasive argument.
33:29Vera is given
33:31British nationality
33:32without her Romanian roots
33:34coming to light.
33:45with Vera now
33:46a British citizen,
33:48her secret work
33:48at F-Section
33:49can continue.
33:51Sir,
33:52in seconds,
33:53reply from nurse.
33:57Noor.
33:59Vera's personal questions
34:01to Noor
34:01have been answered
34:03correctly.
34:05Hearing back
34:06from Noor
34:06was a huge relief
34:08for Vera
34:09and indeed
34:10for Buckmaster
34:10because it meant,
34:11first of all,
34:12that she was safe.
34:14Secondly,
34:14it meant
34:15that there was
34:16still radio communication
34:18between London
34:18and Paris.
34:19And finally,
34:20this means
34:21that they're going
34:22to be able
34:22to build up
34:23the Prosperous Circuit
34:24again.
34:26Soon,
34:27requests from nurse
34:29flood
34:29into F-Section.
34:35New SOE agents
34:37are infiltrated
34:38to bolster
34:39the fledgling circuit.
34:42Buck,
34:43another request
34:44from nurse.
34:49Authorize the drop.
34:54Arms,
34:57explosives
34:58and cash
35:00are sent over
35:02in airdrops.
35:20What's this?
35:22A draft
35:23of Noor's citation.
35:27Citation?
35:30Noor's work
35:31is exemplary.
35:33Buckmaster
35:33is so impressed
35:34by her
35:35and her courage
35:35and bravery
35:36having stood alone
35:37in Paris
35:38that in February
35:391944,
35:40he actually recommends
35:41her for the George Medal.
35:45Because of Noor,
35:47the Prosperous Circuit
35:48has been reinforced
35:49and reconstructed
35:50and is in perfect order.
35:55It is unique
35:56in the annals
35:56of this organization
35:57for a circuit
35:58to be so completely
36:00disintegrated
36:01and yet to be rebuilt.
36:07because, regardless
36:08of personal danger,
36:11this young woman
36:11remained on her post
36:13at times alone
36:15and always under threat
36:16of arrest.
36:19Sir.
36:22She's earned it.
36:25For Buckmaster,
36:26the faith placed in Noor
36:28meant that F Section
36:29had a circuit
36:30in Paris again.
36:34Crucial for their plans
36:36for D-Day.
36:46D-Day preparations
36:47kick into overdrive.
36:51The date
36:52is still a closely
36:53guarded secret
36:54but all signs
36:55point to the invasion
36:57going ahead
36:57in the first half
36:59of 1944.
37:03Prime Minister
37:04Winston Churchill
37:05gives the SOE
37:06a direct order
37:07and that is
37:08to prioritise
37:09arming
37:09the French resistance.
37:12F Section's
37:13central role
37:14will be to equip
37:15and coordinate
37:16the French resistance
37:17fighters
37:18on the ground.
37:21Their mission
37:22is to attack
37:23and slow down
37:25German reinforcements
37:26heading to the
37:27Allied landing zones.
37:39Vera,
37:40shut the door.
37:48Buck?
37:56A new directive.
37:58The head
37:59of SOE,
38:01Major General
38:02Colin Gubbins,
38:03makes it painfully
38:04clear just how
38:06important F Section
38:07is to the D-Day plans.
38:11Strategically,
38:12France is overwhelmingly
38:13the most important
38:15zone in the
38:16Western theatre of war.
38:18F Section
38:19should therefore
38:19regard this theatre
38:21as one where
38:21heavy casualties
38:23are inevitable
38:25but will yield
38:27the highest
38:27possible dividends.
38:30He means
38:31heavy casualties
38:32for our agents.
38:39Therefore,
38:40increase SOE aid
38:41to the field
38:42to the maximum
38:43possible peak
38:44and maintain
38:45until D-Day.
38:48Increase SOE aid.
38:50Supply drops.
38:52Cash,
38:53weapons,
38:54explosives.
38:56And increase
38:58the supply of agents.
39:02Send even more
39:04agents
39:05to strengthen
39:06the circuits
39:06for D-Day.
39:12And expect
39:13heavy casualties.
39:25F Section's
39:26most important role
39:28is going to be
39:30in the weeks
39:31and days
39:31before D-Day.
39:33In spite of
39:34the human toll,
39:35the huge casualties
39:37which Gubbins
39:37has warned them about,
39:39Vera and Buckmaster
39:40are still
39:41recruiting agents
39:42because they need
39:43to send them in
39:45to France.
39:46It's absolutely vital.
39:47They have to succeed.
39:51Key to this
39:52is infiltrating
39:53the agents
39:54undetected
39:55behind enemy lines.
39:57The man
39:59responsible for this
40:00is F Section's
40:01air movement officer
40:03Henri Derricourt.
40:08Since Boddington's
40:10mission to France,
40:11the allegations
40:12of treachery
40:13against Derricourt
40:14hadn't subsided.
40:17In fact,
40:19they'd intensified.
40:22In February
40:231944,
40:25Buckmaster
40:25is forced
40:26to recall
40:27Derricourt
40:27from France
40:28to London
40:29to clear up
40:30the matter
40:30once and for all.
40:34That'll be all.
40:38Henri Derricourt!
40:40Buck!
40:41Oh!
40:42How lovely to see you.
40:43Likewise.
40:45I see Boddington's
40:46already given you
40:46the tour.
40:47Well, he's an
40:47excellent guide.
40:49You said something
40:49about drinks tonight,
40:50Boddington,
40:51at the Savoy.
40:53It's a nice
40:54establishment.
40:55You better
40:56behave yourself.
40:59Derricourt
40:59was quite well
41:01known to the
41:02SOE by the time
41:03he actually joined
41:04them.
41:05He came from
41:06France fleeing
41:07Nazis.
41:07He's Boddington's
41:08old friend.
41:09And in those
41:10days,
41:11places like
41:11the SOE
41:12were run
41:13very much
41:14along the lines
41:14of, you know,
41:16old boys' network.
41:17And despite
41:19the fact that
41:19Derricourt is
41:20actually being
41:20investigated
41:21for possibly
41:23being a
41:23double agent,
41:25he's put up
41:26in the Savoy
41:27Hotel.
41:27He's treated
41:28well by
41:29Buckmaster
41:30and Boddington.
41:32Buck.
41:34The
41:34allegations
41:35against Derricourt
41:36were true.
41:37What would
41:38that mean
41:38for F-Section?
41:39All of our
41:40planning?
41:41Vera,
41:41the reports
41:42lack evidence.
41:43There's no way
41:44they'll be proven.
41:45I know a
41:46chap I can
41:46trust when
41:47I see one.
41:49But
41:50Buckmaster
41:51has plenty
41:52to worry
41:52about.
41:53The danger
41:55with Derricourt
41:55possibly being
41:56a double agent
41:57was that
41:58he was
41:58bringing
41:59the agents
41:59both to
42:00France
42:01and from
42:02France.
42:03And the
42:03fear was
42:04that all
42:05of the
42:05people
42:05he'd
42:06come in
42:06contact
42:06with
42:07would
42:07also
42:07have
42:07been
42:08compromised.
42:09Every
42:10single
42:11agent
42:11would
42:12have
42:12been
42:12blown.
42:13This
42:14would
42:14derail
42:15all
42:15of F-Section's
42:17D-Day
42:17planning.
42:20Don't
42:20worry,
42:20Derricourt.
42:22We'll
42:23clear this
42:23whole
42:23sorry
42:24business
42:24up.
42:25Take
42:25it
42:25as
42:25an
42:26SOE
42:26objective
42:26to
42:27clear
42:27your
42:27name.
42:28Thanks,
42:28sir.
42:29And
42:30they
42:30did.
42:30By
42:31September
42:321944,
42:33MI5's
42:34investigation
42:34of Derricourt
42:35winds up
42:36and he's
42:37told he's
42:38free to
42:38go.
42:54With D-Day
42:55on the
42:56near horizon,
42:57Vera is
42:58busier than
42:59ever overseeing
43:00the deployment
43:01of women's
43:02spies.
43:04She needs
43:05the SOE's
43:07circuits as
43:08strong as
43:08possible for
43:09F-Section's
43:10ultimate aim,
43:12stopping the
43:13Nazis from
43:14reaching the
43:14Allied landing
43:15zones.
43:16In March,
43:17she sends
43:18six female
43:19agents into
43:20enemy territory.
43:22That's more
43:22than any point
43:23in the war so
43:24far.
43:25First to fly
43:26is Yvonne
43:27Baysden.
43:29The parachute
43:30drop is
43:31scheduled for
43:31this evening.
43:32The drop
43:33zone is
43:34the south
43:34of France,
43:35near Toulouse.
43:37From here,
43:37you're to
43:38make your way
43:39across country
43:39to Dole,
43:40where you're
43:41to make
43:41contact with
43:42the Scholar
43:43Circuit.
43:44This will
43:45be your
43:45circuit.
43:46You've been
43:47assigned to
43:47them as
43:48a wireless
43:48operator.
44:00ready?
44:02Ready,
44:03Miss
44:03Atkins.
44:04With any
44:05incriminating
44:06items gone,
44:08she's cleared
44:09for takeoff.
44:10And the
44:11infiltration of
44:12agents doesn't
44:13stop.
44:16Reports are
44:18that the weather
44:18has cleared
44:19over central
44:19France.
44:20Tonight,
44:21you're to be
44:22infiltrated by
44:23parachute near
44:24the Limassan
44:25region.
44:32From the
44:33drop zone,
44:33you're to
44:34meet up with
44:35the salesman
44:36circuit and
44:37begin making
44:37contacts with
44:38the resistance.
44:41But Violette's
44:42mission has
44:43an added
44:43danger.
44:45An SS
44:46Panzer
44:46division is
44:47located there
44:48and it's
44:49up to
44:49Violette as
44:50courier to
44:51try and help
44:51the resistance
44:52stop those
44:53panzer tanks
44:54from reaching
44:55the Allied
44:56landing sites.
45:02How am I
45:03looking?
45:04Good.
45:08You're
45:09clean.
45:10Are you
45:11ready?
45:18The Nazis
45:19won't know
45:20what hit them.
45:22Very good.
45:26With D-Day
45:27imminent,
45:28the circuits
45:29are ready
45:30for action.
45:32In France,
45:34the SOE,
45:34their agents
45:35and the French
45:36resistance
45:37go into
45:37overdrive.
45:38They're
45:39frantic
45:39trying to
45:40work as
45:40fast as
45:41they possibly
45:41can
45:42because they
45:42just have
45:43to slow
45:44the Nazi
45:45defences
45:45down.
45:48D-Day
45:48messages,
45:49activating
45:50sabotage
45:51attacks
45:51led by
45:52the circuits,
45:53could start
45:54at any
45:55time.
45:57In Dahl,
45:59the Scholar
45:59Circuit is
46:00a hive of
46:01activity and
46:01Yvonne is
46:02right at the
46:03centre of it.
46:04She's
46:05coordinating with
46:06French resistance
46:06fighters.
46:07She is
46:08actually physically
46:09making detonators
46:10herself.
46:10choosing the
46:12targets that
46:13they are
46:13going to
46:13attack
46:14together.
46:14She must
46:15have been
46:15so stressed
46:17out but
46:18also excited
46:19because this
46:19is the
46:20moment that
46:20she has been
46:21working towards.
46:22This is why
46:22everybody has
46:23been risking
46:24their lives.
46:25They've got
46:26to make
46:26D-Day work.
46:33On the
46:345th of June,
46:361944,
46:37SOE broadcast
46:38hundreds of
46:40action messages
46:41in code
46:42over radio
46:43stations.
46:46That day,
46:48messages from
46:49the circuits
46:49come flooding
46:50back into
46:51F-section.
46:55Sabotage
46:56operations
46:57have started.
47:16D-Day has
47:18come.
47:23to
47:23to
47:48serve
47:49in
47:49The
48:08Transcription by CastingWords
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