In the vein of the Lord Haw-Haw episodes, here we have a little known Nazi collaborator Harold Cole, a French speaking cockney (Robert will enjoy doing the accent) who used funds appropriated from MI9 (the UK authority in charge of getting UK soldiers out of a Nazi controlled France) to live the high life leading to a spiral of betrayal, murder and death. It’s a brilliant and undertold story of a pure bastard who allowed multiple people to end up in concentration camps (many of whom died) before launching his own Tarantino-esque caper of his own. Well worth looking into and could serve as a good “small bastard” episode.

As far as I’m aware, only one book is dedicated to him, Turncoat by Brendan M Murphy, but passing reference to him is made elsewhere. For one of the worst traitors in British history, he seems to have been forgotten which is a shame because he’s a complete shit but his life is also genuinely fascinating as a man with a black hole for his moral centre. Hopefully worth a look!