In 1941, a decade before he became Queen Elizabeth’s official dressmaker, the 25-year-old fashion designer Hardy Amies was working as the managing designer of the British couture house Lachasse. Fluent in French and German, Amies was soon recruited into Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.)—informally known as “the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare”—for whom he coordinated the assassinations of dozens of Nazi collaborators in occupied Belgium. Amies died in 2003, and though he remained closed-mouth about his service in the S.O.E., a new podcast hosted by the actors Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) and Raza Jaffrey (Spooks) delves into his wartime success and slip-ups—including a 1945 photo shoot with Lee Miller that almost cost him his job. —Paulina Prosnitz