Episode 64: Virginia Hall, Part One -- Traveller, Translator, Secretary, Spy

Histories And Mysteries

Virginia Hall was a woman of talent and frustrated ambition -- denied again and again from a position as an American diplomat, first on account of her sex and second on account of her status as an amputee. In a different world, she would have remained nothing more than an over-qualified secretary, but as with the advent of the Second World War, she became something more: one of the most successful and adaptable intelligence agents working inside Vichy France.