Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2
Helen Fry discusses British intelligence officer Thomas Kendrick, who helped swing the Second World War in favour of the Allies
Helen Fry speaks to Jon Bauckham about the remarkable life and career of Thomas Kendrick, an elusive MI6 intelligence officer who helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi-controlled Austria, before going on to mastermind the biggest Allied bugging operation of the Second World War.
Helen Fry is the author of Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 (Yale University Press, 2021)
Authors
Jon Bauckham is the Production Editor of BBC History Magazine and previously held the same role on BBC History Revealed. He is responsible for writing, editing and proofreading content, and ensuring that the magazine goes to press smoothly each month. When he’s not poring over pages with a red pen, he can be found recording episodes of the award-winning HistoryExtra podcast, chatting to authors about subjects ranging from Lord Kitchener to Russian pianos
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