Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player
Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. How did some of Britain's most privileged and well-connected young men come to betray their country? And what does the story of the Cambridge Five reveal about ideology, loyalty, and power in times of political upheaval? On today's episode, Antonia Sr., journalist and author, joins Sophie Scott.
Brown, historian and philosopher, to discuss her new book, Stalin's Apostles, The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire. Together they discussed the forces that drew a generation towards communism and enabled one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in modern history. Let's join our host, Sophie Scott Brown, now with more. Antonia, hi, it's great to meet you. It's great to be chatting here on the Intelligence Grab podcast.
I'm going to be talking about your uh new book, uh, Stalin's Apostles, uh, the Cambridge Five and the Making of Stalin's Empire, really excited to get into this. Now, first of all, let's just dig into a little bit more. These five guys, I mean, they are pretty well written about. I mean, there's an absolute plethora of histories, of fictions, you know, they they're they're just the five that keep on giving.
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (39 minutes, 6,728 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.