"They would drop agents into Brittany, all that secret stuff..." - Helen Fry on her new book on MI9
Picture the scene.
It's the Second World War, and you're an Allied soldier or pilot who is stuck behind enemy lines. How do you stay alive - and how on Earth are you going to get yourself to safety?
If you were lucky, you'd be put in touch with MI9 - a secret organisation with agents who would risk their lives to get you home from occupied Europe.
Helen Fry has written a new book about the organisation called 'MI9: Escape and Evasion'.
She's been explaining more about it to our weekend presenter Jack Murley, including its remarkable links to Cornwall.
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