Agnes Bernelle

Wartime secret agent & cabaret legend, she fled from Berlin in 1936 to the United Kingdom, to become the ‘Black Propaganda’ radio announcer code named ‘Vicki’. In 1963 she presented her first one-woman show, going on to work with luminaries such as Marc Almond, Gavin Friday, Elvis Costello and many more.

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World War 2

When her father was asked if he knew of someone fluent in German who could broadcast for the American OSS at a ‘Black Propaganda‘ radio station - broadcasts whose main aim was to spread confusion and reduce morale among the German army - he suggested his daughter. Agnes was 15 at the time.

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