21 - 27 June 2027 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury

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🎧 A SPY NAMED ORPHAN: THE ENIGMA OF DONALD MACLEAN

Roland Philipps

05/03/2019

Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West’s greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, Roland Philipps tells this story in full, unravelling the character and contradictions of this dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agent.

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