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Radio 4,3 mins

'Nobody must know what you do' - joining Churchill’s ‘secret army’

Saturday Live

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After receiving her call up papers during the Second World War aged 17, Noreen Riols chose to become a Wren but instead soon found herself recruited into the Special Operations Executive - Churchill's 'secret army'. She recalls her unusual experience upon turning up at an unmarked government building on Baker Street for the first time.

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