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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.
16:19The women!
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?
19:44You're here!
19:44No!
19:57you're here in france
19:59the nurse is with you
20:01no one sir
20:03the meeting with sir till's contact was a trap
20:06butcher is definitely in german hands
20:09well are you sure
20:12100%
20:13a gazarian and i have flipped a coin to see you 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 in a
20:23gestapo torture chamber
20:28poor gazarian
20:37send a message to f section
20:38arrange a lysander pickup immediately
20:41i need to get back to london
20:45so
20:47were you followed
20:55send a message
20:57we'll find you in your safe house
21:01they can't trust anyone
21:03nor has to move
21:13meanwhile
21:15boddington returns to london
21:29buck here's my report
21:34prosper is destroyed
21:36prosper is destroyed
21:38entirely
21:40it's impossible to know which agents are active
21:42which agents are in gestapo custody
21:45and who can be trusted
21:48the gestapo are raiding weapons depots
21:51making arrests
21:52prosper as a circuit is a corpse
21:57it's worse than they could have imagined
21:59the most important soe circuit operating in france
22:03has been absolutely destroyed
22:06the most important members of it are in the hands of the ss gestapo
22:12it means safe houses are not safe
22:14people are being arrested it means that the people who were in any way connected with the circuit are in
22:20grave grave danger
22:22there is something else
22:25one of our agents has been contacted by german military intelligence
22:30about deracour
22:33deracour
22:35this
22:35adver officer
22:38claims that deracour is letting the gestapo copy all our agents
22:42unencoded letters before sending them back to london
22:45preposterous
22:46i know
22:50but this agent of ours will be sending this report in
22:54officially
22:56german military intelligence hated the gestapo
22:59and they're trying to get us to close down the network
23:02then the gestapo won't have anybody to arrest
23:06this rumor is just that
23:08a rumor
23:08we can't and shouldn't act on it
23:14agreed
23:17but it's clear to buckmaster and vera
23:20that the prosper circuit is blown
23:23one hundred and sixty seven agents are rounded up
23:27arrested
23:28many of them tortured and some of them killed by the gestapo
23:33the prosper circuit was the most important in france and it's a disaster for f section that it's been blown
23:43it was crucial to the planning for d-day because it was a center of the resistance
23:52try and get as many agents back to london as possible
24:13but one agent who doesn't return is nor
24:21buckmaster writes to noor
24:22and says come back
24:24it's very dangerous we'll organize a flight for you and get you out
24:28but noor says she's the last link left
24:31she's the last radio operator standing between
24:34paris and england i have to be here if i've gone there's no radio operator left
24:41she feels she can rebuild this circuit
24:44and buckmaster receives this message
24:46and he asked her to lie low and be very careful
24:56despite the danger
24:58buckmaster realizes just how vital she is
25:02and keeps her in her post
25:10she becomes one of f section's most important agents
25:14as she is their one remaining radio operator in paris
25:22and a letter she sends to vera gives hope that all might not be lost after all
25:38dear miss atkins
25:39excuse pencil
25:45your bird has brought me luck
25:47i remember you so often
25:50you cheered me up so sweetly before i left
25:54lots of things have happened
25:55and i haven't been able to settle down properly
26:00still my contacts are regular
26:02and i'm awfully happy
26:05lots of love
26:07yours
26:08nor
26:19your bird has brought me luck
26:23but despite the upbeat letter
26:25vera is worried about nor
26:29nor is clearly operating under great stress
26:33she's meant to be sending in messages regularly
26:35but most of the wireless messages she's sending are outside the scheduled times
26:40and this shows that she's having to move around and having to adapt a lot
26:44and vera has reason to worry
26:48the gestapo in paris are now aware of a lone british wireless operator and are on the hunt
27:01so both
27:03violette sabo and yvonne baston are progressing well
27:06very good
27:07both their training reports show an increasing aptitude for
27:11sir miss atkins an urgent message from the signals room
27:14thank you
27:14dismissed
27:19madeline has been injured and is now in a hospital
27:24madeline is nor's alias
27:28this message is coded
27:32nor has been compromised
27:35all captured
27:36is that possible
27:40the intel comes from a woman called sonya claiming to be an informant
27:45but we don't have any informants on our books called sonya
27:55so
27:55who is sonya
27:59they didn't know who she was
28:01was this a joke
28:03was it something to confuse them
28:05was this even a gestapo ruse
28:07what was going on
28:10we can't verify who sonya is
28:15the message can't be trusted
28:23i think for now vera we have to ignore it
28:28more rumors
28:32they push forward with their plan for nor to salvage the prosper circuit
28:47sir a message just received for callsign nurse
28:51nurse
28:53that's nor's wireless call sign
29:01previous safe house was unsafe
29:03she's moved to another
29:08but she is up and running again
29:12clever girl you're nor
29:15it seems that despite sonya's warning nor outwitted the gestapo
29:20and is safe
29:24sir there's something you should know
29:27nor's fist
29:30seems off
29:33each wireless operator had what was known as a fist
29:36it was their way of using the morse key to type morse code
29:41it could be as simple as how fast they tapped
29:44or the gaps they left in between the dots and the dashes
29:47or just something that was very unique about it
29:50and the person working as their opposite back in headquarters
29:54would be able to recognize the fist
29:57and it's a very reliable way of recognizing which agent is using the machine
30:04and nor's fist had become unusual
30:08what are you saying
30:10someone else might have sent the message
30:15so how can we be certain nurse is really nor
30:22send a reply
30:24ask questions only nor would know the answers to
30:29these would be to do with her family
30:30or childhood or something very personal that only the two of them would have known
30:35if these came unanswered or they were vague
30:38she would know that nor had been captured
30:41excellent thinking
30:43draft a list of questions miss adkins
30:45then send the message
30:47sir
30:47the questions are sent
30:50it's an anxious wait
31:01with questions over nor's identity still hanging in the air
31:05work at f section plows ahead
31:08but
31:09buckmaster
31:10begins making plans
31:11for d-day
31:12d-day is approaching
31:14but nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen
31:18it's a closely guarded secret
31:20but buckmaster
31:22has plans for vera he wants her to set up a station a kind of forward unit within france after
31:30the landings but he has a problem
31:34vera atkins
31:36vera atkins
31:36isn't british
31:37she's actually romanian
31:40only he and vera know this within f section
31:44romania was fighting on the side of nazi germany during the war
31:48technically she was an enemy alien
31:53but with d-day looming this has to change
32:01vera applies for british nationality and is interviewed by the home office
32:09you'll find a letter of recommendation from my commanding officer
32:19ah
32:20yes
32:21see
32:23buckmaster writes a letter to the home office
32:25he very much backs her application
32:28and says
32:29that without the british citizenship
32:32it's going to be very difficult for vera
32:34to be able to go to the continent
32:36and operate as a representative of britain
32:40if she in fact still has a romanian passport
32:43without british papers
32:45it would be impossible for vera to work freely
32:48in liberated france
32:51there is something else
32:54my romanian nationality
32:57we were hoping there was some way to complete my application
33:01without it being mentioned
33:05i'm sure you understand
33:07what with the work i do for the war effort
33:10how sensitive it might be
33:14it is essential
33:15it is essential that the people i meet
33:17the people that i work with
33:20never learn that i am romanian
33:22this is about national security itself
33:26it's a persuasive argument
33:29vera is given british nationality
33:32without her romanian roots coming to light
33:42send a message to scholar
33:44with vera now a british citizen
33:47her secret work at f section
33:49can continue
33:51sir
33:52in seconds
33:53reply from nurse
33:56nor
33:57no
33:59vera's personal questions to nor have been answered correctly
34:04hearing back from noor was a huge relief for vera and indeed for buckmaster because it meant
34:11first of all that she was safe secondly it meant that there was still radio communication between
34:18london and paris and finally this means that they're going to be able to build up the prosperous
34:24circuit again soon requests from nurse flood into f section
34:35new soe agents are infiltrated to bolster the fledgling circuit
34:42buck another request from nurse
34:48thank you or twice the drop
34:56arms explosives and cash
35:00are sent over in airdrops
35:20what's this
35:22a draft of norr's citation
35:27citation
35:30norr's work is exemplary
35:32buckmaster is so impressed by her and her courage and bravery having stood alone in paris that in
35:38february 1944 he actually recommends her for the george medal
35:45because of norr the prosperous circuit has been reinforced and reconstructed and is in perfect order
35:54it is unique in the annals of this organization for a circuit to be so completely disintegrated
36:01and yet to be rebuilt
36:07because regardless of personal danger
36:10this young woman remained on her post at times alone and always under threat of arrest
36:19her
36:22she's earned it
36:25for buckmaster
36:26the faith placed in norr meant that f section had a circuit in paris again
36:34crucial for their plans for d-day
36:46d-day preparations kick into overdrive
36:51the date is still a closely guarded secret
36:54but all signs point to the invasion going ahead in the first half of 1944
37:03prime minister winston churchill gives the soe a direct order and that is to prioritize
37:09arming the french resistance
37:12f sections central role will be to equip and coordinate the french resistance fighters on the ground
37:21their mission is to attack and slow down german reinforcements heading to the allied landing zones
37:30to attack and slow down
37:39vera shut the door
37:48up
37:55the head of soe major general colin gubbins makes it painfully clear just how important f section is
38:07to the d-day plans
38:13the western theater of war
38:18the f section should therefore regard this theater as one where heavy casualties are inevitable
38:26but will yield the highest possible dividends
38:32for our agents
38:38therefore increase soe aid to the field to the maximum possible peak and maintain until d-day
38:48increase soe aid
38:51supply drops cash weapons explosives
38:56and increase the supply of agents
39:03send even more agents to strengthen the circuits for d-day
39:12and expect heavy casualties
39:14and expect heavy casualties
39:22yes
39:25f section's most important role is going to be in the weeks and days before d-day
39:32in spite of the human toll the huge casualties which gubbins has warned them about
39:39vera and buckmaster are still recruiting agents because they need to send them in
39:45to france it's absolutely vital they have to succeed
39:51key to this is infiltrating the agents undetected behind enemy lines
39:57the man responsible for this is f section's air movement officer henry derekour
40:08since boddington's mission to france the allegations of treachery against derekour hadn't subsided
40:18in fact they'd intensified
40:22in february 1944 buck master is forced to recall derekour from france to london
40:29to clear up the matter once and for all
40:34that'll be all thank you
40:38armory derekour
40:41how lovely to see you likewise
40:45i see boddington's already given you the tour well he's an excellent guide you said something about
40:49drinks tonight boddington at the savoy
40:53it's a nice establishment you better behave yourself
40:59derekour was quite well known to the soe by the time he actually joined them
41:05he came from france fleeing nazis he's boddington's old friend and in those days places like the soe
41:12were run very much along the lines of you know old boys network
41:17and despite the fact that derekour is actually being investigated for possibly being a double agent
41:25he's put up in the savoy hotel he's treated well by buck master and boddington
41:34the allegations against derekour were true
41:37what would that mean for f-section all of our planning
41:41vera the reports lack evidence there's no way they'll be proven
41:45i know a chap i can trust when i see one
41:49but buck master has plenty to worry about
41:53the danger with derekour possibly being a double agent was that he was bringing the agents both
42:00to france and from france and the fear was that all of the people he'd come in contact with would
42:07also have been compromised every single agent would have been blown
42:13this would derail all of f-section's d-day planning
42:20don't worry derek or we'll clear this whole sorry business up
42:25take it as an soe objective to clear your name
42:28thanks sir and they did by september 1944 mi5's investigation of derekour winds up and he's told he's free to
42:38go
42:38and he's told he's free to go
42:55with d-day on the near horizon vera is busier than ever overseeing the deployment of women's spies
43:04she needs the soe's circuits as strong as possible for f-section's ultimate aim stopping the nazis
43:13from reaching the allied landing zones in march she sends six female agents into enemy territory
43:22that's more than any point in the war so far first to fly is yvonne basden the parachute drop is
43:31scheduled for this evening the drop zone is the south of france near toulouse from here you're to
43:38make your way across country to dole where you're to make contact with the scholar circuit this will
43:45be your circuit you've been assigned to them as a wireless operator
44:01ready ready miss atkins with any incriminating items gone she's cleared for takeoff
44:09and the infiltration of agents doesn't stop
44:16reports are that the weather has cleared over central france
44:21tonight you are to be infiltrated by parachute near the limousine region
44:32from the drop zone you're to meet up with the salesman circuit and begin making contacts with the
44:38resistance but violette's mission has an added danger an ss panzer division is located there
44:48and it's up to violette as courier to try and help the resistance stop those panzer tanks from reaching
44:55the allied landing sites
45:02how am i looking good
45:09you're clean are you ready
45:18the nazis won't know what hit them
45:22very good
45:26with d-day imminent the circuits are ready for action
45:32in france the soe their agents and the french resistance go into overdrive they're frantic trying
45:39to work as fast as they possibly can because they just have to slow the nazi defenses down
45:48d-day messages activating sabotage attacks led by the circuits could start at any time
45:57in dull the scholar circuit is a hive of activity and yvonne is right at the center of it
46:04she's coordinating with french resistance fighters
46:08she is actually physically making detonators herself she's choosing the targets that they
46:13are going to attack together she must have been so stressed out but also excited because this
46:19is the moment that she has been working towards this is why everybody has been risking their lives
46:25they've got to make d-day work
46:33on the 5th of june 1944 soe broadcast hundreds of action messages in code over radio stations
46:47that day messages from the circuits come flooding back into f section
46:55sabotage operations have started
47:16d-day has come
47:19the 4th of june 1945 and bundlynall
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