2026-04-17
40 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
How did some of Britain's most privileged and well-connected young men come to betray their country?
And what does the story of the Cambridge Five reveal about ideology, loyalty and power in times of political upheaval?
On today's episode, Antonia Senior, journalist and author, joins Sophie Scott-Brown, historian and philosopher,
to discuss her new book, Stalin's Apostles, The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire.
Together, they discuss the forces that drew a generation towards communism and enabled one of the most
damaging intelligence breaches in modern history.
Let's join our host, Sophie Scott-Brown, now with more.
Antonia, hi.
It's great to meet you.
It's great to be chatting here on the Intelligence Grid podcast.
I'm going to be talking about your new book, Stalin's Apostles, The Cambridge Five and the Making of Stalin's Empire.
Really excited to get into this.
Now, first of all, let's just dig into a little bit more.
These five guys, I mean, they are pretty well written about.
I mean, there's an absolute plethora of histories, of fictions.
You know, they're just the five that keep on giving.
Now, but you come at this and straight off the bat,
you 're saying, well, okay, we think we know this story, but in fact, we do n't.