The Man Who Never Was

This week Rob and Duncan are washing up on the shores of Spain with The Man Who Never Was! This 1956 spy thriller is the first cinematic telling of the story of Operation Mincemeat – popularised, of late, in a Ben Macintyre book and a subsequent movie version – and starred Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame. What was the best death in a film about a corpse? What was Noël Coward's epitaph for Clifford Webb's mother? And it's Rob's turn to decide whether this was the operation that changed the course of the war...

NB: This is the final episode of SEASON ONE of A Pod Too Far. We are now looking for a funding partner to keep the show on the road. Email [email protected] to discuss anything related to the show.

Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.

Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.

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