In Popular Culture
- Recorded interviews with Vera Atkins are used in Into the Dark, a short film directed by Genevieve Simms.
- Atkins is the subject of the "Fatal Femmes" episode of the Secret War documentary series, aired in the United States on the Military Channel.
- She was played by Avice Landone in the 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride.
- The 2012 play The Secret Reunion by Adrian Davis is five SOE women holding a London reunion in 1975: Vera Atkins, Nancy Wake, Odette Churchill, Virginia Hall and Didi Hearne.
Atkins is one of several women who has been speculated to be the basis for the character Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.
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