Oleg Gordievsky's secret life as a spy | Interview with Ben Macintyre | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- Author Ben Macintyre talks about former secret agent Oleg Gordievsky and his life as a spy in this interview with Scandinavian talk show Skavlan.
In London: Ben MacIntyre.
In Stockholm: Blogger and entrepreneur Isabella Löwengrip and athlete Armand Duplantis.
In Oslo: Artist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen and host Fredrik Skavlan.
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One of the best books I have ever read. Hollywood could not have told a better story.
Thanks, again, for allowing your guest to talk.
Thanks for watching and providing feedback, Noel! We appreciate it.
Loved your book about Oleg.
Fascinating and gripping
Again, a great story well told by your guest and again Skavlan, you master the art of making interviews of historic quality! Tusen takk!.
Thank you so much for that, Jan! Tusen takk til deg også!
Ben’s book in audio format is gripping. I absolutely could not put it down until I knew what happened to Gordievsky.
what is the story please?
The Spy and the Traitor
@@susanyoung6632 Ive just finished it...through the night...He mentions a personal acquaintance so it has some surprising relevance to me and my family
Yes, I'm half way through the audio book at the mo and would class it as the best book I've ever heard/read. The names that pop up through the book and the detail is superb
Ive just read the book and it was gripping!!! Sometimes i got so anxious about what happened to Oleg i had to stop reading !!
If you're interested in Oleg Gordievsky, this anecdote may be of interest. John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties!
Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau, Port au Prince and the Americas. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking.
Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
Best talk show there is excellent interview or greetings from America
Fantastic book. MacIntyre is an excellent writer.
John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous master of fiction in his eighties!
Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau, Port au Prince and the Americas. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder what the point of reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking.
Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
AN INTERVIER WHO ALLOWS THE GUEST TO TALK. i HAVE DISCOVERED YOU SKAVLAN, i WILL SUBSCRIBE,
The socks on that lady, they caught mine eye, I like her style.
Oleg's own book is titled...Next stop execution.....A fantastic read...
Skavlan's show and Graham Norton's are so far above anything in the U.S. in quality.
Great book
Great story!! He weirdly looks like Kevin spacey
That's why Mr McIntyre doesn't walk through the parks of London & also because it's obvious he's going a brush pass as well.
And Woody Allen
Cool
I think Oleg Gordievsky is one of the best of human beings. And Aldrich Ames is one of the worst.
By the thumbnail, I could have sworn it was kevin spacey
He like Philby seems to have done it for a CAUSE.
Which book about him has Ben written about Gordiesky
The Spy and the Traitor, Penguin books
@@jrgc316 yes I've read it now...its brilliant
Does anyone know what happened to his wife Leila? Is he in touch with his daughters?
Gordievsky - waiting for his polonium tea for over 20 years
"She is also in Britain"? Curious slip
Who asked you where they were?
The girl on Skavlan's left looks like Chapman , the Russian 'insertion' in NYC .
Im sorry Oleg cannot see his children. How sad.
High culture? What is the high culture? He is a traitor, very simple. He never wanted money 😂😂😂
I read the book and by high culture he meant that he could enjoy some cultural expression in the west that was forbidden in the Soviet Union. Such as some types of music etc
"Traitor" Ah yes, serving genocidal commies is so great...
Bull shat
What a great analysis