{"title": "Pints of Knowledge Book Club: Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire, with Antonia Senior", "start": "2026-10-28T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Corner Corner", "address": "", "price": "£20.25", "price_from": "20.25", "price_to": "20.25", "tickets_url": "https://cornercorner.com/book-now", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/cold-war"], "description": "The first Pints of Knowledge Book Club, an evening talk running 7pm to 8.30pm. It explores the true story of the Cambridge Five, the British spies who passed some of the West's most closely guarded secrets to the Soviet Union, with Antonia Senior. 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