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Time of Trial

The Town That Knew Too Much

Aug 18, 202131:58Society & Culture

Geoffrey Prime, Soviet spy at GCHQ, has been arrested on sexual offences against children. But that was just the start of his world unravelling. And as the Prime affair came to a boil, the grubby compromises of espionage...

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Time of Trial is an episode from The Town That Knew Too Much. Geoffrey Prime, Soviet spy at GCHQ, has been arrested on sexual offences against children. But that was just the start of his world unravelling. And as the Prime affair came to a...

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Published Aug 18, 2021, 31:58 long, audio available.

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