7. Escape into the Mountains (Season 2)

<p>Virginia Hall’s identity was exposed. Now she had to get out of France and into Spain, and that meant an excruciating climb over 30 miles of tumultuous mountain terrain. Virginia knew that attempting the trek alone would mean death, especially given that she’d be hiking with her prosthetic leg. Luckily, Perpignan, the town she’d landed in, had a Resistance contact she knew fairly well. A man known to her by his codename: Gilbert.<br><br>Edward Stourton: "If they were found out, things could be very, very nasty indeed and many of them who were caught went off into camps in Germany. A lot of 'em died. A lot of 'em died in really awful ways. The Germans had a system called ‘Nacht und Nebel’, Night and Fog, which meant that people just disappeared into the system of concentration camps, and nobody knew where they were. Which of course was intended to frighten anybody considering, going onto the wrong side and, and joining an escape line and helping people to get over over the Pyrenees."<br><br>This episode contains interviews with:<br><br>• <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stourton_(journalist)">Edward Stourton</a>: BBC broadcaster who made a commemorative trek across the Pyrenees some 70 years after Virginia Hall; author of the book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Crossing-Escaping-Hitler-Pyrenees/dp/0552777897">Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees</a></em><br><br>• <a href="https://judithlpearson.com/about/">Judith Pearson</a>: expert on Virginia Hall and author of the book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wolves-Door-Americas-Greatest-Female/dp/159921072X">The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy</a></em><br><br>Learn more at <a href="http://diversionaudio.com/good-assassinshttps://bit.ly/goodassassins">diversionaudio.com/good-assassins</a></p> <p>“Good Assassins” is a production of Diversion Audio, in association with iHeartPodcasts. Featuring the voices of Matthew Amendt, Orlagh Cassidy, Raphael Corkhill, Manoel Felciano, Sean Gormley, M