Stalin’s Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War and the Cambridge Spy - Andrew Lownie

Enduring long before and after its use during the Great War, espionage is as popular of an intelligence tactic as it is a thrilling theme. Join author Dr. Andrew Lownie for a lecture exploring the colorful career of English-born Soviet spy Guy Burgess. Ascending through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, Burgess became a member of the Cambridge Spy Ring and leaked thousands of highly sensitive secret documents to Russia.

Hosted in partnership with The International Relations Council of Kansas City and the English Speaking Union.

[DanBudda]

It could have been twice as long and still been worth the listening time. Thank you!

[jm]

Fascinating topic!! Andrew is such a great researcher and speaker...I'll look at your other lectures.

[lequelle]

Watching from Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Thank you for a wonderful programme.

[geoffbrown]

Knowingly passing the port the wrong way round the table - undoubtedly the beginning of the end. A superb presentation, thanks.

[michaeltowslee]

I've read a great deal on the Cambridge Spies. I've always wondered how many people died or suffered from the activities of these men and women.

[Wildflowers]

Only learning of this wonderful book today - first through Shauna at Vintage Read :) lovely interview! I’ll be buying your book Andrew !

[jcollins]

Such an interesting speaker. I will have to read his book. Thank you for posting!

[brightonmuzahura]

Tuning in from Nairobi Kenya. Good lecture.

[jilltagmorris]

Thank you for your work and presentations

[carolinewalker]

Thank you for this interesting and fascinating lecture .

[an]

Greetings from the Netherlands. Thank you for this most interesting lecture from the excellent dr. Lownie. Wish there are more coming of this quality on the you tube channel.

[stevegoble]

Thanks for this love all the spy stuff, and Andrew writes great books.

[VickiNikolaidis]

Very interesting. Amazing UK and USA didn't throw out espionage and concentrate on diplomacy after such a situation.

[mikewinston]

Fun fact….McClean is buried in the parish church in my village; Penn, Buckinghamshire.

[DavGv]

Very interesting. Hugh Sykes Davies was my uncle. As he married five or six times (he married the same woman twice so we're not sure of the count) so I doubt if he was homosexual.

[davidmcconnon]

Let it go bankrupt so the state can pick it up with no guarantee of existing debt.

[ovadyadisrael]

I'm from Jerusalem Israel. Originally from San Francisco California

[frederickbowdler]

Spies are a boring lot !!😅 and can be recognized easily by counting the number of their partners.