Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

Good things come to those who don't wait.

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

I'm Helena Bonham Carter and for BBC Radio 4, I'm back with a brand new series of history's secret heroes.

And he tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent.

She will work undercover.

And if she's caught, she's going to be shot.

It's World War II, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Someone came to the door.

They were looking to murder him.

But he knew that they were coming, and he escaped by going across the rooftops and escaping

to Holland.

These are stories of ordinary people taking extraordinary risks.

There were three hiding places within that shop, three false closets where you could hide

people.

They are only allowed to leave under cover of darkness, but they spend their days locked in

a closet and with the young women bringing them food.

She was about to drop this lighting bomb and took out the fuse,

but the bomb got caught in the mittens that she strapped around her neck.

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