This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Simon McBurney of Complicité theatre company, about their haunting audio production of Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising.

'The Flame of Resistance' by Damien Lewis

'The Dark Is Rising' by Susan Cooper, BBC World Service, December 20

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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