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Mata Hari: The Dancing Spy
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Mata Hari paints a fascinating picture: an exotic dancer turned spy, eventually executed for her devious work during World War I. Her life, however, reveals a much different story. Margaretha Zelle, the girl who would become Mata Hari, was born in the Netherlands - not some distant Eastern country as she claimed. She would make a living as a dancer and exhibitionist, as well as through lifelong habit of telling wild tales about herself that sold well to the papers. Whether or not she was a true spy or was simply framed in the fallout of the War is almost impossible to ascertain, and leaves the listener wondering - who really was this woman, and can we ever know?