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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk zed B.

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Speaker 2: Twenty to twelve on Newstalks. He'd be Katherine Rains as

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Speaker 2: our book reviewer. She's got two reads for us this weekend. Hey, Catherine,

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Speaker 2: Morning Jack. Let's begin with Storm Child by Michael Robotham.

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Speaker 3: So this is in a series, and so this is

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Speaker 3: the fourth in the series of Ev Cormack, and you

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Speaker 3: get to learn a little bit more about her mysterious

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Speaker 3: past and she's very silent on her name and background

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Speaker 3: instead of a precaution for her own self preservation. And

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Speaker 3: she's a with a psychologist to go. And I'm Sarah Cyrus,

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Speaker 3: Haven and Nottingham for the last three years. And they

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Speaker 3: decide to take a holiday trip to Cleethorpe's on the

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Speaker 3: Lincolnshire coast, and this horrifying site plays out before their

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Speaker 3: eyes as these bodies of migrants are washed up on

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Speaker 3: the beach, including a little boy, and there's a teenage survivor,

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Speaker 3: a boy named Arburn. And this tragedy has a particular

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Speaker 3: impact on Ev. And Cyrus works with the Nottingham Police

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Speaker 3: Force and he's drafted to help this inquiry that's going

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Speaker 3: on and he finds himself very involved in this and

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Speaker 3: it turns out of a llegal boat trafficking of refugees

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Speaker 3: and gangs and led by this mythical guy they call

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Speaker 3: the Fairyman who damages the boats of refugees who don't

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Speaker 3: pay him, and you know, revengeful compensation and all sorts

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Speaker 3: of things going on, and the narrative alternates between ev

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Speaker 3: and Cyrus, and the situation brings back a lot of

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Speaker 3: Evie's memories and provide a little bit more of her backstory,

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Speaker 3: and he gets ever changing plot that's told in flashbacks

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Speaker 3: that trigger memories and drama and all sorts of things,

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Speaker 3: and these recollections from the present day storyline in this

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Speaker 3: dark tale. So you got lots of things, the refugee

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Speaker 3: situation and modern slavery and Evie's mind and the way

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Speaker 3: things are working for her, and it's just it's a

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Speaker 3: fascinating unraveling of her tail, which is a little bit

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Speaker 3: more of her.

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Speaker 2: Tail, okay, called That's a Storm Child by Michael Robotham.

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Speaker 2: You've also read Agent Zoe by Clear Mulley.

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Speaker 3: So this is the story of Elizabethta. She was a

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Speaker 3: Polish World War II female resistance fighter and her name

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Speaker 3: was Agent Zo. And so the story sort starts out

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Speaker 3: actually after the war in September fifth, nineteen fifty one,

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Speaker 3: and she arrives home from her teaching job to find

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Speaker 3: these two officials waiting for her, and they ransack her

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Speaker 3: flat in northern Poland, and they find this cotton rail

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Speaker 3: containing a ten dollar note of all things, and only

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Speaker 3: foreign currency in communist Poland at that time carried a

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Speaker 3: ten year sentence including torture. And it was just an

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Speaker 3: absurd part of her story. And this woman who had

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Speaker 3: fought to defend eastern Poland from the Nazis. She joined

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Speaker 3: the Home Army, which was one of the largest resistance

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Speaker 3: movements in Europe. She'd run a network of couriers taking

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Speaker 3: information to the Polish government, which happened to be an

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Speaker 3: excited in London. She trained volunteers of the British Special

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Speaker 3: Operations Executive of Underground Resistance Fighters and she was the

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Speaker 3: only woman that was parachuted back into Oki Pied Poland.

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Speaker 3: And there these amazing physical challenges she undertook as well,

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Speaker 3: you know, deep snow and the Pyrenees and bombed by

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Speaker 3: the English and shot out by border guards and Claire

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Speaker 3: Marle Mulley, who's told this story, said that Agent Zo

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Speaker 3: had set herself to missions in life to bring freedom

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Speaker 3: to a country and the equality, quality of opportunity, rank

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Speaker 3: and recognition to her fellow service woman. And she actually

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Speaker 3: ironically achieves the last one of those right at the

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Speaker 3: end of her life. And she's officially recognized and awarded

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Speaker 3: the Order of the White Eagle, and at ninety seven

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Speaker 3: she was given the military title of Brig General retired

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Speaker 3: and of course an independent democratic Poland, which was her

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Speaker 3: first wish. But she's just an astonishing woman. And you

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Speaker 3: know there's a detailed account of history in Poland in

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Speaker 3: the twentieth century as well, you know, invaded simultaneously by

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Speaker 3: Hitler and Stalin, and you know, the Poles were amazing.

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Speaker 3: You know, they provided nearly half of Britain's war time

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Speaker 3: intelligence and you know, made these invaluable contributions to the

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Speaker 3: to the war effort. And yeah, and then finally in

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Speaker 3: old age, she's recognized as who she should have been

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Speaker 3: recognized and bright from day one. But the story and yeah,

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Speaker 3: is amazing as she kind of steps through I can't

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Speaker 3: you know of lots of these World War two female

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Speaker 3: resistance workers, fighters, sorry, and lots of people and pilots

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Speaker 3: and all sorts of things, and you just the stories

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Speaker 3: are unmanageable of what they put themselves to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh sounds great. Cool, Okay, there's Agent Zo by

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Speaker 2: Clear Mulley, Catherine's first book, A Storm Child by Michael Robot,

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Speaker 2: and both of those, of course, we listed up on

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