Julie Wheelwright
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526 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Julie Wheelwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, you know, she was this huge star.
And I think that maybe she thought she could do it again.
She could pull off another big coup.
And maybe in her mind, it was all part of the same thing.
You know, these boundaries between...
performer, courtesan, maybe even wife, a spy.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it's a very long and complicated story, her involvement with espionage, but I'll try and make it really simple.
When she goes to Paris in 1916, she falls in love with a young Russian officer named Vadim Maslov.
Yeah, absolutely.
And she wants to visit him.
He's been injured.
He's sort of given some time off.
He's on leave in a place called Vitale.
She wants to go and visit him.
But because it's near the war zone, near the frontier, she has to get a special pass.
from Georges Ladoux, rather the police.
But she goes to the police station and they introduce her to Georges Ladoux, who we will remember is this key figure in terms of he's running one of the spy bureaus, the French spy bureaus.
So he sits her down and says, we understand that you've got these amazing contacts.
Obviously, you're Dutch, so you could go to Belgium.
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