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Episode 447: Smiley's Person

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4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

We talk to the Times’ Emanuel Midolo about the killing of foreign correspondent David Holden in 1977. Plus: spies, journalists, journalists as spies, and solving a sordid murder at the margins of the Cold War. Emanuele Midolo is the author of the new book MURDER IN CAIRO, co-authored by Peter Gillman, about Holden’s murder: https://timesbookshop.co.uk/murder-in-cairo-9781785907029/ Discover more episodes at podcast.trueanon.com.

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0:00.0

British people are always like, join me for a bonbonnet raffles.

0:05.3

You know what?

0:06.4

I wish they were like that still.

0:08.3

They are not like that anymore.

0:09.8

No, you know what?

0:10.6

Now they are...

0:12.2

I mean, we shouldn't say too much to get our...

0:14.4

Because we don't want to get our ghost in trouble here.

0:16.3

But the faces are so strange on them.

0:19.8

Have you noticed that?

0:21.0

They're these sort of like moons.

0:23.7

With these, the bleached blonde.

0:26.0

I'm thinking of like photos of British women you see like for a nard out.

0:30.1

Wait, are you thinking about women or men?

0:32.4

But there's kind of, they're like the men are sort of like they look like a big, thick piece of bread.

0:38.1

And the women kind of look soggy in a way.

0:41.3

I don't know if I, I don't know.

0:43.4

Really?

0:44.8

No, I'm just kidding.

0:47.6

But what do you think?

0:48.5

What were you saying?

0:49.9

I don't know.

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