The Lockhart Plot
Guest: Jonathan Schneer, Professor Emeritus of British History, Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of "The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia"
The Lockhart Plot, if successful, would have resulted in the assassinations of Lenin and Trotsky and the establishment of an Ally-friendly regime in Russia. But this plot was a “turning point that failed to turn.” How would history have been different if they had succeeded?

Stalin's Housewife Spy
Guest: Ben Macintyre, author of “Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy”
Ursula Kuczynski, or Agent Sonya, was one of Moscow’s most brilliant spies throughout WWII and the Cold War. While raising three children, Ursula secretly passed blueprints for the atomic bomb to the Russians. MI5 never caught her because nobody could believe that “Mrs. Burton” could get around to stealing nuclear secrets when she was so busy baking scones.