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Peter Stevens

Con-man, fraudster, chancer, thief – and the bona fide war hero who helped inspire a film

In this episode, we explore the world of Peter Stevens, a complex courageous man who speaks to our age more than anyone we've come across before. He’s also one of the most complicated, hidden and secretive people you'll ever meet.

Join Oswin and Carla and the military historian Joshua Levine as we try to understand the tangled world of Peter Stevens – and to make sense of how war can free people to be whoever or whatever they want to be.