Just six months after the end of the Great War, seven young men would arrive in Newfoundland with their teams to fly the Atlantic. Author David Rooney has researched them all and has just 15 minutes to convince you to buy his book!

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Many stories of the agents of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) in WW2 are known; the stories of the women of SOE are rediscovered by Kate Vigurs in Mission Europe, and she has just 15 minutes to tell us all about them! This is our pilot episode, and goodness, did the technical gremlins bite...

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