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Episode 1 | 57m 49s
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Married after meeting in the secret service during World War II, Alec and Alison Wilson live devotedly for two decades, raising their two sons and living an otherwise quiet, idyllic life. Then Alec dies, and the real story starts to unravel.
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Take a look at our definitive timeline of spy and author Alexander Wilson's mysterious, extraordinary life, spanning from his birth in 1893, through his marriages, the births of his children and all the way through his untimely death in 1963.