11 March : Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies

Martin Lloyd worked for HM Immigration Service for 24 years. He now writes books, appears on television, talks on the radio, and to groups such as u3a.

Stories how three passports have played their influential role in the course of history; an attempted assassination which altered the regulations for issuing passports; the capture of a spy which caused a worldwide modification to the design of the document and for one person the passport itself which turned into a killer.

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