Kim Philby, Super Spy: Part 1, Codename Sonny
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Born to the British upper-crust - devoted to the Revolution. Harold 'Kim' Philby was the ultimate Soviet superspy.
For decades, Philby sold secrets to the Russians from inside the upper echelons of MI6. Inspired by an unpublished memoir recently acquired by Spyscape, we bring his fascinating story to life.
In Part 1, Rhiannon Neads details Philby's rise to the top - and the fateful decisions that will lead to his undoing.
From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Justin Trefgarne. Music by Nick Ryan. Kim Philby voiced by Dominic Mafham.
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Your narrator is incredible. I can see Philby as the actor talks
they should narrate some audiobooks.
So much more details in this video than all of the other ones I’ve seen on RUclips. Very well done, as I feel as if I’m in a room listening to Kim.
This really is very good and the actor is spot on!
Love him or hate him, 'Kim' Philby was no dilettante radical. It is too easy for us to view him in a teleological manner and judge him accordingly.
He reacted, quite understandably, to what he saw going on around him in the World (he may well have had some personal epiphany, perhaps?) and, on being offered a chance to do 'something about it', he took it.
He considered that the 'So-Called Elites', the privileged, exploitative and connected Bourgeoisie of which he was a member, had betrayed their own countries' people, and not just in the UK but everywhere.
The 'Remedy' these same elites proposed - authoritarian, quasi-religious, violent, militaristic, aggressively nationalist and corporatist - was worse than the disease.
To him, they, as a socio-economic class, had already committed the worst sorts of Treason.
It was no 'phase' for him. He understood that Class Struggle was War, not a Battle.
Wars involve loss, personal sacrifice, courage, cowardice, loyalties and betrayals. And, unlike a battle, War is ubiquitous and it is relentless.
Whilst making allowances for human beings' tendency to rewrite their pasts in the light of subsequent developments, he seems to have genuinely had more awareness, rather than the soon-acquired experiential knowledge, of his 'hostage to fortune' status than most.
That near-miss by a shell up near Teruel - I had relatives who fought/froze on that health destroying front and their sardonically humourous 'Sunny ffwcin Sbaen?!' memories spoke volumes! - which only he survived taught him the extremely sudden, totally capricious and very permanent nature of death in War.
But, certainly to him and his world view, the casualties of capitalism in an ongoing forever-War between Classes were evidence enough and justified him in his decision to take a side.
Just saying, like!
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I meant to add that this was superb- first rate. Anyone can sympathize with Philby's compassion for the plight of the poor and wanting to do something radical for them- and that he was a man of real courage and integrity- but to go from that to siding with the most vile, controlling, political, anti-human system of oppression in the post-war world...All the same, I have a feeling he went to his grave with few if any regrets.
I'm a Le'Carre fan and find espionage from this period fascinating. The book; Tinker Taylor Solder Spy and 2 other novels in the trilogy are said to have been inspired partly by this. A later book from late 80s; A Perfect Spy, I feel has more in common to it..
Magnus Pym thinks, does and behaves very similar to Philby, however is a person I can emphasise with much more.
In the book, when Pym is placed in Vienna as a low level agent, or it may have been Army service, hes shown 2 photographs by a superior and told to arrest them if he comes across them. He's never arrested anyone before and asks how to do it in a hilarious part of one chapter...... he never encounters them, but writes later in his diary years later those 2 people were Philby and Burgess.
Its an outstanding book and the 'Perfect' spy novel IMO. It follows the story of the entire life of a man recruited to a top level spy and then a Czech double agent and finds it impossible to get out even when he could - he enjoys the thrill so much of his double life at times and doesn't know who he is. Betrayal and the search of love are very strong themes and it does give a very deep insight of why and how people can end up as high level double agents - highly recommended book!!
He bore a striking resemblance to a young Gary Oldman.
I just recently watched Argyle. The voice and just the style of spy is vary similar
Well they're not any russian movies on philby or ames or anyone else in that crew soooo
As far as I am aware, those elements of the former Soviet Union's archives (GRU, NKVD, NKGB, and the KGB) are still off-limits.
And that was the case before this current unpleasantness in the Crimea/Ukraine.
No he had help and mi6 knoww but didn't do shit about it
"typically for a woman of that time...". Lol
woke gets everywhere, when is the time that its not typical for mothers to look after there children
" Grabbed some local nosh" !? He didn't say that in 1937
Verbatim from his journals I believe. ‘Nosh’ is fairly antiquated upper class slang. Would definitely have been frequently used in the 30s
@@Geezeroo curry/fish n chips /tacos whatever -common vernacular in its day =really get over it mate
A true British patriot a true British traitor simple facts
A true British patriot 😂😂