Lea Ypi talks to Misha Glenny

What happens when a single photograph unlocks a hidden past? Lea Ypi reveals a life of glamour, espionage and survival across war-torn Europe. Using archive files and spy reports, Ypi uncovers the fascinating and disturbing story of her grandmother’s life from Ottoman-era Salonica to wartime Albania and through the rise of communism. It’s a life embroiled in politics, class, love, exile and surveillance. Ypi grapples with unsettling questions about her own family’s past, what it means to survive in an age of extremes, and whether we have the moral authority to judge the acts of previous generations. She talks to the host of the BBC’s In Our Time, Misha Glenny.