Ralph Harvey

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Margery Booth is a forgotten English Opera Star from the 1930s. She rose to great fame in Hitlers 3rd Reich, singing at the Berlin Opera until she was finally arrested in 1945. A personal favourite of Hitler, she was also a British Intelligence Agent. Surviving the Gestapo, the war and its dreadful conclusion in Berlin, as well as a traumatic escape across Germany, she gave evidence at war-trials in London.

Largely ignored by her peers after the war, who despite everything, believed her to have been a Nazi-sympathiser, she eventually died from throat cancer in 1952 and was to a great extent, forgotten - until now.

Centred around interviews with the only living person known to have met her, the script writer for an up-coming feature film on the subject and the daughter of a fellow spy, and using actual news-reel with some dramatic reconstruction, The Forgotten Poppy briefly traces her life from the back-streets of Wigan through the rise and fall of Berlin, to her tragic death in New York.

Interviews Ralph Harvey Wendy Haskell John Woodforde

Reconstruction Margery Booth - Meryn Turner

Voiceovers Narrator - Yvonne Maxwell Voice of Margery - Amy Enticknap Voice of William Fairhurst - Steve Bannister

Crew DoP - Nathan Greenwood Camera Assistant/Researcher - Ian Yarwood Producer - Steve Bannister Executive Producer - Frank Tuscany

Special Thanks Vintage Rooms, Wimborne Minster Soundworks Oxford Museum of Wigan Life Thame Players Theatre Oxford Castle Rushden Transport Museum & Railway Sharnbrook Mill Theatre Trust

Mike Tree Chiara Pincelli Colleen Tudway Alex McKenzie Doug Pope John Sugars

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Ralph Harvey is known for Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest (2014), Expérience interdite (1988) and Margery Booth: The Forgotten Poppy (2017).

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Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest (2014)

Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest

5.5

Writer

2014

Expérience interdite (1988)

Expérience interdite

7.2

TV Mini Series

Brigadier

Meryn Turner in Margery Booth: The Forgotten Poppy (2017)

Margery Booth: The Forgotten Poppy

Short

Self - Interview

2017

Legends (2006)

6.9

TV Series

Self

Credits

Actor

Expérience interdite
7.2
TV Mini Series
- Brigadier
- 1988

Writer

Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
5.5
- co-writer
- 2014

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Margery Booth: The Forgotten Poppy

Margery Booth: The Forgotten Poppy

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