Oleg Gordievsky's secret life as a spy | Interview with Ben Macintyre | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan

[@trailrunner9113]

One of the best books I have ever read. Hollywood could not have told a better story.

[@noelpucarua2843]

Thanks, again, for allowing your guest to talk.

[@SkavlanTV]

Thanks for watching and providing feedback, Noel! We appreciate it.

[@Tawadeb]

Loved your book about Oleg. Fascinating and gripping

[@jancabri8291]

Again, a great story well told by your guest and again Skavlan, you master the art of making interviews of historic quality! Tusen takk!.

[@SkavlanTV]

Thank you so much for that, Jan! Tusen takk til deg også!

[@susanyoung6632]

Ben’s book in audio format is gripping. I absolutely could not put it down until I knew what happened to Gordievsky.

[@wikedwhich1]

what is the story please?

[@susanyoung6632]

The Spy and the Traitor

[@wikedwhich1]

@@susanyoung6632 Ive just finished it...through the night...He mentions a personal acquaintance so it has some surprising relevance to me and my family

[@Linds12302]

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

[@Tawadeb]

Ive just read the book and it was gripping!!! Sometimes i got so anxious about what happened to Oleg i had to stop reading !!

[@mi6uk]

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.

[@ericak3118]

Best talk show there is excellent interview or greetings from America

[@leeebbs722]

Fantastic book. MacIntyre is an excellent writer.

[@mi6hq115]

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.

[@zolochnaya]

AN INTERVIER WHO ALLOWS THE GUEST TO TALK. i HAVE DISCOVERED YOU SKAVLAN, i WILL SUBSCRIBE,

[@briannakisisa5636]

The socks on that lady, they caught mine eye, I like her style.

[@flatoutt1]

for me as a believer ,for me the story of Oleg Gordievsky and what i imagine he went through and endured ,really is an incredible wake up call . in how we all choose to spend our life and have the guts to change it,and betray what you totally were convinced was right . just imagine how angry he must have been when he got to the "hang on " thought/stage when he got to denmark and saw and experienced the new freedom . and realised he's been lied to. AND then decided to do something about it . watching the other doco with capt winters ,for me really brings into focus the life and death chances these bloke took. i bet he had a whole new appreciation for ""findlandia" when he heard it coming through the car speakers when they had crossed the border . i don't think i'd have the guts to do the things they did. [and that includes the other people in the car ] help me believe with the passion and conviction these guys believed .

[@ginocasio]

Oleg's own book is titled...Next stop execution.....A fantastic read...

[@gastondeveaux3783]

Skavlan's show and Graham Norton's are so far above anything in the U.S. in quality.

[@chrismac2234]

I think Oleg Gordievsky is one of the best of human beings. And Aldrich Ames is one of the worst.

[@kartmaneric5392]

Great story!! He weirdly looks like Kevin spacey

[@jaysterling26]

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.

[@susanyoung6632]

And Woody Allen

[@sratus]

Great book

[@gabel4277]

By the thumbnail, I could have sworn it was kevin spacey

[@murrayeldred3563]

He like Philby seems to have done it for a CAUSE.

[@wikedwhich1]

Which book about him has Ben written about Gordiesky

[@jrgc316]

The Spy and the Traitor, Penguin books

[@wikedwhich1]

@@jrgc316 yes I've read it now...its brilliant

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool

[@nashwin2315]

Does anyone know what happened to his wife Leila? Is he in touch with his daughters?

[@kocickakitty143]

Gordievsky - waiting for his polonium tea for over 20 years

[@Tawadeb]

Im sorry Oleg cannot see his children. How sad.

[@richardshiggins704]

The girl on Skavlan's left looks like Chapman , the Russian 'insertion' in NYC .

[@NelsondeQuinhones]

"She is also in Britain"? Curious slip Who asked you where they were?

[@stanislavshokurov6532]

High culture? What is the high culture? He is a traitor, very simple. He never wanted money 😂😂😂

[@katjawysoci7607]

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

[@artair70]

"Traitor" Ah yes, serving genocidal commies is so great...

[@patrickodonnell3562]

Bull shat

[@brandoncorona9312]

What a great analysis