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The inspirational story of the bravery of Violette Szabo, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) in WW2, her brief marriage to Etienne Szabo, a French Legionnaire, before he was killed in El Alamein, her motivation to be selected by the SOE, the training involved, her two missions into France, her capture by the Germans, her imprisonment […]

Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel. This talk looks at how the writer used her extensive knowledge of drugs and medicines mixed with […]