Ashenden – Gentleman Spy past W Somerset Maugham | BBC RADIO AUDIOBOOK

Ashenden – Gentleman Spy past W Somerset Maugham | BBC RADIO AUDIOBOOK: Series of espionage adventures based on characters and situations encountered past Somerset Maugham during the First World War.
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Alex Jennings reads Somerset Maugham’s series of short stories, based on his own experiences during the First World War and featuring Ashenden, recruited past the British Secret Service as a spy.

Abridged past Neville Teller the producer was Eoin O’Callaghan and it was an original BBC 7 commission.

Five episodes of or so thirty minutes each.

Episode 1: ‘R’
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Ashenden is recruited into the Secret Service past ‘R’, on an entirely ‘non-attributable’ basis.

Episode 2: Miss King
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Ashenden, evading the Swiss police, is called to the deathbed of Miss King, who has information she is desperate to impart.

Episode 3: Giulia Lazzari
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Determined to entrap a renowned traitor, Ashenden co-opts a dancer.

Episode 4: The Traitor
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Ashenden unearths a plot past the Germans to infiltrate an Englishman, Caypor, into England as a spy.

Episode 5: Mr Harrington’s Washing
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Ashenden encounters an Worldwide who refuses to defer to the Bolsheviks, with ugly consequences.

First broadcast in 2007 on BBC Radio 7.