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True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino and Daisy Ridley talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position? We explore and investigate real life thrillers, mysteries and crimes - stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction! These stories cover lies, murder, theft, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. You’ll meet experts from the top intelligence agencies including FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6 (SIS), KGB, GRU, Mossad and many others. You’ll discover characters who spied because of money, ideology, coercion or just plain old ego. And, if you’d like to dig deeper into the world of secrets, and test your own secret intelligence skills, head over to spyscape.com for articles, games, experiences, puzzles and videos. A Cup
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The Swinging Spies | KGB from 2023-11-27T23:59
Karel Koecher always knew he was destined for greatness. At the height of the Cold War, he arrived in New York City – a Communist sleeper agent, hell-bent on infiltrating the highest echelons of Am...
ListenMister Wristwatch | FBI from 2023-11-20T23:59
Truck driver, entrepreneur, womanizer - spy. Sophia Di Martino joins journalist Sean O'Driscoll to tell the story of one of the most unusual and effective moles in modern American history.When Davi...
ListenThe Old Man and the CIA, Part 2: Dulles's Down | Historical from 2023-11-13T23:59
Some men make headlines. Others make history. A subtle few mold the future of nations in their image - and you'd never even know it. In this 2-part True Spies miniseries, journalist and author of T...
ListenIntroducing: A History of the World in Spy Objects from 2023-11-08T11:30
The Enigma Machine. The B2 stealth bomber. The poisoned-tipped umbrella. Napoleon’s Briefcase of Secrets. As long as there has been conflict, there have been spies, and as long as there have been s...
ListenThe Old Man and the CIA, Part 1: American Gestapo | Historical from 2023-11-06T23:59
Some men make headlines. Others make history. A subtle few mold the future of nations in their image - and you'd never even know it. In this 2-part True Spies miniseries, journalist and author of T...
ListenHoward Hunt Unleashed, Part 2: Project Gemstone from 2023-10-30T23:59
In this True Spies special, Daisy Ridley presents a dramatized encounter with Everette Howard Hunt Jr, based on our own historical research and Hunt's own writings. In Part 2 - the unbelievable sto...
ListenHoward Hunt Unleashed, Part 1: The CIA&Animal Farm from 2023-10-23T22:59
In this special True Spies miniseries, Daisy Ridley presents a dramatized encounter with Everette Howard Hunt Jr, based on our own historical research and Hunt's own writings.In Part 1, Hunt explai...
ListenBeware the Men in Suits, Part 2: Justice for Yvonne | Investigation from 2023-10-16T22:59
In 1984, when Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was shot outside the Libyan Embassy in London , John Murray swore he would bring her killers to justice. Decades later, he's about to come closer than...
ListenBeware the Men in Suits, Part 1: Stray Dogs | Investigation from 2023-10-09T22:59
April, 1984 - London. Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher has been shot dead by a pro-Gaddafi gunman at the Libyan Embassy. The UK looks on in sorrow and disgust. One man vows to bring her killer to j...
ListenThe Unwanted Spy from 2023-10-02T22:59
In 2015, former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violating the Espionage Act by leaking details of a top-secret operation to a journalist - a charge he...
ListenTerror On The Line | CIA from 2023-09-25T22:59
It's 2007, and Iraq is in a state of chaos. Factions of armed insurgents clash with Coalition forces, and the USA is looking for an exit strategy. 32 year-old Egyptian-American CIA officer Joseph A...
ListenThe Impeccable Spy | WW2 from 2023-09-18T22:59
For a womanizing Soviet spy, wartime Tokyo is both playground and prison. Surrounded by the enemy, he's got to keep his wits about him - and with an increasingly paranoid leader in the Kremlin, the...
ListenThe Alphabet Boys | CIA from 2023-09-11T22:59
When an informant leaks the location of an arms deal between a Romanian-American fixer and a Colombian rebel group, the DEA come down hard on both parties. But in a world of double-dealing, secrets...
ListenThe Gehlen Organization, Part 2: Peter and Paul | Historical from 2023-09-04T22:59
In this two-part special, True Spies tells the story of a clandestine German intelligence network that sprang from the ashes of the Third Reich. Led by former Nazi Reinhardt Gehlen, the group was s...
ListenThe Gehlen Organization, Part 1: Doctor Schneider | Historical from 2023-08-28T22:59
In this two-part special, True Spies tells the story of a clandestine German intelligence network that sprang from the ashes of the Third Reich. Led by former Nazi Reinhardt Gehlen, the group was s...
ListenBeneath the Orange Rain | R&AW, India from 2023-08-21T22:59
The year is 1971, and deep in the marshy mangrove forests of East Pakistan, a crack team of Bangladeshi commandos move silently through the Ganges Delta. Backed by the recently-formed Indian secret...
ListenThe Compassionate Spy | Historical from 2023-08-14T22:59
For teenage genius Ted Hall, the opportunity to work alongside the great minds of his time was too great to turn down. But during his time on the Manhattan Project - the WW2 nuclear development pro...
ListenDancing With Jackals, Part Two: The Vanishing of Bruno Breguet | CIA from 2023-08-07T22:59
It's the 1980s, and Bruno Breguet is one of international super-terrorist Carlos the Jackal's most trusted operatives. But in a paranoid world of violence and subterfuge, what is loyalty really wor...
ListenDancing With Jackals, Part One: The Idealist | CIA from 2023-07-31T22:59
In June 1970, a young man is arrested at the Israeli port of Haifa. On his person, police officers discover pro-Palestine propaganda, a Super-8 video camera, and 2 kilograms of high explosive. His ...
ListenThe Oswald Project, Part Two: The Cuban Connection | CIA from 2023-07-24T22:59
A new season of True Spies kicks off with Daisy Ridley as the Narrator and Edward Norton as Lee Harvey Oswald - the alleged assassin behind the killing of President John F Kennedy. The Oswald Proje...
ListenThe Oswald Project, Part One: From Russia With Love | CIA from 2023-07-17T22:59
A new season of True Spies kicks off with Daisy Ridley as the Narrator and Edward Norton as Lee Harvey Oswald - the alleged assassin behind the killing of President John F Kennedy. The Oswald Proje...
ListenA Taste for Treason, Part 2: Agent Crown | WW2 from 2023-07-10T22:59
A Scottish hairdresser, a wannabe actor-slash-stunt pilot, and a Nazi spy ring spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Three different shows? No. One True Spies special. In this two-part story, intell...
ListenIntroducing: Daisy Ridley And Edward Norton in True Spies: The Oswald Project from 2023-07-06T07:00
A new season of True Spies kicks off with Daisy Ridley as the Narrator and Edward Norton as Lee Harvey Oswald. The Oswald Project tells the shocking story of Oswald – the alleged assassin of Presid...
ListenOperation Inter | StB from 2023-06-26T22:59
In the late 1980s, change is in the air in Eastern Europe. For a young journalist like Mark Baker, Czechoslovakia is an interesting place to be. But Mark has attracted some unwanted attention - a f...
ListenOperation Ivy Bells | DoD from 2023-06-19T22:59
In 1970, Captain James Bradley had a daydream - a daydream that inspired one of the most audacious aquatic espionage missions of all time. Operation Ivy Bells gave the USA unprecedented access to S...
ListenBehind the Bamboo Curtain | CIA from 2023-06-12T22:59
When two CIA officers were captured in an ambush on Chinese territory, it seemed as though their story was over. In fact, their ordeal had only just begun. Two decades later, their fates still hung...
ListenThe Courier | Mossad from 2023-06-05T22:59
As a student in the early 1970s, espionage was never on the cards for Howard Kaplan. But when he was given the opportunity to smuggle documents out of Soviet Russia for the Israeli government, he c...
ListenExtracting Eichmann, Part 2/2: Rat Trap | Mossad from 2023-05-29T22:59
In the aftermath of WW2, war criminals scatter to the four winds. Using international escape routes known as 'Ratlines', scores of Nazis begin new lives in South America. Among them is one of the H...
ListenExtracting Eichmann, Part 1/2: The Ratline | Mossad from 2023-05-22T22:59
In the aftermath of WW2, war criminals scatter to the four winds. Using international escape routes known as 'Ratlines', scores of Nazis begin new lives in South America. Among them is one of the H...
ListenAtomic Spies, Part 2/2: Nuclear Families | WW2 from 2023-05-15T22:59
As a World War rages, humanity stands on the precipice of a new era in warfare. The atomic age is dawning - and Earth's great powers are determined to secure their place in it. In these episodes of...
ListenAtomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2 from 2023-05-08T22:59
As a World War rages, humanity stands on the precipice of a new era in warfare. The atomic age is dawning - and Earth's great powers are determined to secure their place in it. In these episodes of...
ListenThe Queen of Cuba, Part 2/2: The Known Unknown | FBI from 2023-05-01T22:59
Meet one of the most notorious double agents in the history of US intelligence - a spy so effective that she was able to operate with impunity for 17 years. Until her arrest in 2001, Ana Belén Mont...
ListenThe Queen of Cuba, Part 1/2: Foreign Policies | FBI from 2023-04-24T22:59
Meet one of the most notorious double agents in the history of US intelligence - a spy so effective that she was able to operate with impunity for 17 years. Until her arrest in 2001, Ana Belén Mont...
ListenCOINTELPRO, Part 2/2: The Burglary | FBI from 2023-04-17T22:59
It's March, 1971. 15 months have passed since the murder of Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton by the Chicago PD. But Hampton's killing is part of a concerted effort by the J Edgar Hoover's FBI to ...
ListenCOINTELPRO, Part 1/2: The Black Panther Plot | FBI from 2023-04-10T22:59
It's 1969, and the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party is led by 21-year-old Fred Hampton. Hampton is beloved by his supporters, and hated beyond measure by J Edgar Hoover, the head of the ...
ListenThe Mighty Wurlitzer | CIA from 2023-04-03T22:59
The idealism of youth is a powerful thing. But when you're part of a movement, can you ever be sure of who's really pulling the strings? In the 1950s and 60s, a hidden hand is manipulating members ...
ListenProject Scorpius, Part 2/2: Agony and Ecstasy | DES from 2023-03-27T22:59
When by-the-book rookie Pamela Robinson is partnered with maverick undercover cop Kevin Barnum, neither is sure of the other. But as the duo work a hair-raising undercover operation against a Hells...
ListenProject Scorpius, Part 1/2: The Armpiece | DES from 2023-03-20T23:59
When by-the-book rookie Pamela Robinson is partnered with maverick undercover cop Kevin Barnum, neither is sure of the other. But as the duo work a hair-raising undercover operation against a Hells...
ListenAmerican Radical, Part 2/2: Sleeper Train | FBI from 2023-03-13T23:59
Tamer Elnoury is a patriotic American, a proud Muslim, and a highly-effective undercover agent. As part of the FBI's elite counter-terrorism taskforce, he's made a living out of fooling some of the...
ListenAmerican Radical, Part 1/2: The Bump | FBI from 2023-03-06T23:59
Tamer Elnoury is a patriotic American, a proud Muslim, and a highly-effective undercover agent. As part of the FBI's elite counter-terrorism taskforce, he's made a living out of fooling some of the...
ListenCelebrity Spies, Part 3/3 - The Josephine Baker Effect | Deuxième Bureau from 2023-02-27T23:59
Celebrities, by definition, live life out in the open. Spies, on the other hand, are happiest in the shadows. But rules are made to be broken. In this True Spies trilogy, Sophia Di Martino tells th...
ListenThe Razumov Files - Sample Episode from 2023-02-22T00:00
Spyscape Studios has launched The Razumov Files, an audacious audio reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s classic spy thriller Under Western Eyes starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey, Brave New W...
ListenCelebrity Spies, Part 2/3 - The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies | OSS from 2023-02-20T23:59
Celebrities, by definition, live life out in the open. Spies, on the other hand, are happiest in the shadows. But rules are made to be broken. In this True Spies trilogy, Sophia Di Martino tells th...
ListenCelebrity Spies, Part 1/3 - The Dangerous Edge of Things | MI6 from 2023-02-13T23:59
Celebrities, by definition, live life out in the open. Spies, on the other hand, are happiest in the shadows. But rules are made to be broken. In this True Spies trilogy, Sophia Di Martino tells th...
ListenExodus, Part 3/3: Adventure À La Carte | Mossad from 2023-02-06T23:59
In the late 1970s, the Mossad launched one of history's most audacious missions: Operation Brothers. Their goal? To rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews facing violence, and bring them safely to Isra...
ListenExodus, Part 2/3: Passports and Prison Cells | Mossad from 2023-01-30T23:59
In the late 1970s, the Mossad launched one of history's most audacious missions: Operation Brothers. Their goal? To rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews facing violence, and bring them safely to Isra...
ListenExodus, Part 1/3: The Telegram | Mossad from 2023-01-23T23:59
In the late 1970s, the Mossad launched one of history's most audacious missions: Operation Brothers. Their goal? To rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews facing violence, and bring them safely to Isra...
ListenBalkan Betrayals, Part 2/2: Escape from Sarajevo | CIA from 2023-01-16T23:59
In the early 1990s, the collapse of Yugoslavia sparked a brutal series of conflicts in Eastern Europe. At first, the USA pursued a policy of non-intervention - officially. Unofficially? That's wher...
ListenBalkan Betrayals, Part 1/2: The Correspondent | CIA from 2023-01-09T23:59
In the early 1990s, the collapse of Yugoslavia sparked a brutal series of conflicts in Eastern Europe. At first, the USA pursued a policy of non-intervention - officially. Unofficially? That's wher...
ListenTradecraft, Part 6 from 2023-01-02T23:59
The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft. In our sixth round of insights from the world of espionage, Sophia Di Martino learns...
ListenTradecraft, Part 5 from 2022-12-23T05:00
The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft. In our fifth round of insights from the world of espionage, Sophia Di Martino encoun...
ListenHow to Steal a MiG, Part 2/2: The Men in Plaid | CIA from 2022-12-19T23:59
In the skies over Cairo, an unlit military transport plane makes a wary descent in to the city's international airport. Under cover of darkness, it's loaded with a precious consignment - an artefac...
ListenHow to Steal a MiG, Part 1/2: The Pyramid Scheme | CIA from 2022-12-12T23:59
In the skies over Cairo, an unlit military transport plane makes a wary descent in to the city's international airport. Under cover of darkness, it's loaded with a precious consignment - an artefac...
ListenAldrich Ames - The Ultimate Double Agent, Part 2/2: Operation Nightmover | CIA from 2022-12-05T23:59
The CIA is only as strong as it's weakest link. And in the waning years of the Cold War, weak links were in ready supply. Anumber of trusted Agency officers were caught selling secrets to the Russi...
ListenAldrich Ames - The Ultimate Double Agent, Part 1/2: Selling Secrets | CIA from 2022-11-28T23:59
The CIA is only as strong as it's weakest link. And in the waning years of the Cold War, weak links were in ready supply. A number of trusted Agency officers were caught selling secrets to the Russ...
ListenIntroducing... The Razumov Files from 2022-11-23T00:00
The Razumov Files, from Spyscape Studios, is an audacious audio reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s classic spy thriller Under Western Eyes, starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey, Brave New Worl...
ListenThe Bin Laden Files, Part 3/3: A Lion In Winter from 2022-11-21T23:59
As a new era of True Spies begins, Sophia di Martino joins the experts to reveal Osama bin Laden’s origins, methods and motivation. CIA operatives Gina Bennett and Tracy Walder join CNN’s Peter Ber...
ListenThe Bin Laden Files, Part 2/3: Take The Shot from 2022-11-14T23:59
As a new era of True Spies begins, Sophia di Martino joins the experts to reveal Osama bin Laden’s origins, methods and motivation. CIA operatives Gina Bennett and Tracy Walder join CNN’s Peter Ber...
ListenThe Bin Laden Files, Part 1/3: The Making of Osama from 2022-11-07T23:59
As a new era of True Spies begins, Sophia di Martino joins the experts to reveal Osama bin Laden’s origins, methods and motivation. CIA operatives Gina Bennett and Tracy Walder join CNN’s Peter Ber...
ListenThe Legal Attaché, Part 2/2: Lobsters in a Box | FBI from 2022-10-31T23:59
The men and women of the FBI are entrusted with defending Americans from their enemies at home and abroad. As an FBI Legat, Kathy Stearman performed that service in a variety of foreign locales. Bu...
ListenTrue Spies: A New Era from 2022-10-27T10:00
Prepare for a new era of True Spies stories, as told by Sophia Di Martino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ListenThe Legal Attaché, Part 1/2: Kentucky Windage | FBI from 2022-10-24T22:59
The men and women of the FBI are entrusted with defending Americans from their enemies at home and abroad. As an FBI Legat, Kathy Stearman performed that service in a variety of foreign locales. Bu...
ListenThe Fourth Man, Part 2/2: The Rock Star | CIA from 2022-10-17T22:59
In the late 80s and early 90s, the Agency was rocked by a series of high-profile turncoats Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard all leaked secrets to the Russians, with often-deadly ...
ListenThe Fourth Man, Part 1/2: The Big Case | CIA from 2022-10-10T22:59
In the late 80s and early 90s, the Agency was rocked by a series of high-profile turncoats Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard all leaked secrets to the Russians, with often-deadly ...
ListenVeil of Beads, Part 3/3: The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Investigation from 2022-10-03T22:59
Everywhere on Earth has its own flavors of greed, corruption and lies. And everywhere produces its own champions - beacons of light in the murk. In Sub-Saharan Africa, that champion is Anas Aremeya...
ListenVeil of Beads, Part 2/3: The Ritual | Investigation from 2022-09-26T22:59
Everywhere on Earth has its own flavors of greed, corruption and lies. And everywhere produces its own champions - beacons of light in the murk. In Sub-Saharan Africa, that champion is Anas Aremeya...
ListenVeil of Beads, Part 1/3: The Method and the Madness | Investigation from 2022-09-19T22:59
Everywhere on Earth has its own flavors of greed, corruption and lies. And everywhere produces its own champions - beacons of light in the murk. In Sub-Saharan Africa, that champion is Anas Aremeya...
ListenMexican Maneuvers, Part 2/2: By The Dawn's Early Light from 2022-09-12T22:59
In Mexico, life can come cheap - but some are worth millions. When ruthless gangs kidnap the loved ones of the wealthy, the ransoms can soar in to seven-figure sums. And when that happens, Nick Bro...
ListenMexican Maneuvers, Part 1/2: Pancho and Cisco from 2022-09-05T22:59
In Mexico, life can come cheap - but some are worth millions. When ruthless gangs kidnap the loved ones of the wealthy, the ransoms can soar in to seven-figure sums. And when that happens, Nick Bro...
ListenCASSIA Spy Ring, Pt. 2/2: The Best Laid Plans | Historical | WW2 from 2022-08-29T22:59
In the face of an historical evil, would YOU have the courage to resist? It's a question that weighed heavily on the members of the CASSIA spy ring - a civilian resistance operation based out of a ...
ListenCASSIA Spy Ring, Pt. 1/2: The Priest and the CEO | Historical | WW2 from 2022-08-22T22:59
In the face of an historical evil, would YOU have the courage to resist? It's a question that weighed heavily on the members of the CASSIA spy ring - a civilian resistance operation based out of a ...
ListenRussia's Laundromat, Part 3/3: Putin's Butler? | Investigation from 2022-08-15T22:59
All around the world, dirty money pollutes public and private life. Those who wield it are a diverse cast of businessmen, politicians, and criminals - and sometimes, they're all three. In this anth...
ListenRussia's Laundromat, Part 2/3: The Godfather | Investigation from 2022-08-08T22:59
All around the world, dirty money pollutes public and private life. Those who wield it are a diverse cast of businessmen, politicians, and criminals - and sometimes, they're all three. In this anth...
ListenRussia's Laundromat, Part 1/3: The Minister of Thievery | Investigation from 2022-08-01T22:59
All around the world, dirty money pollutes public and private life. Those who wield it are a diverse cast of businessmen, politicians, and criminals - and sometimes, they're all three. In this anth...
ListenSpecial Relationships, Part 3/3: Hands Across Libya | CIA&MI6 from 2022-07-25T22:59
After a shaky start, the friendship between Britain and America has blossomed in to one of the most important alliances on the world stage. In this anthology, Vanessa Kirby relates three crucial ch...
ListenSpecial Relationships, Part 2/3: The Lisbon Connection | Historical from 2022-07-18T22:59
After a shaky start, the friendship between Britain and America has blossomed in to one of the most important alliances on the world stage. In this anthology, Vanessa Kirby relates three crucial ch...
ListenSpecial Relationships, Part 1/3: The Zimmermann Telegram | Historical from 2022-07-11T22:59
After a shaky start, the friendship between Britain and America has blossomed in to one of the most important alliances on the world stage. In this anthology, Vanessa Kirby relates three crucial ch...
ListenTeam Alpha, Part 2/2: First Casualty | CIA from 2022-07-04T22:59
October 17, 2001. The dust of 9/11 has barely settled. America and the world are reeling. In Afghanistan, 8 CIA officers - a crack team of linguists, tribal experts and paramilitaries - are the fir...
ListenTeam Alpha, Part 1/2: The Tip of the Spear | CIA from 2022-06-27T22:59
October 17, 2001. The dust of 9/11 has barely settled. America and the world are reeling. In Afghanistan, 8 CIA officers - a crack team of linguists, tribal experts and paramilitaries - are the fir...
ListenSexpionage, Part 3/3: The Lover, the Ax, and Leon Trotsky | NKVD from 2022-06-20T22:59
Throughout history, spies have used sex, seduction and emotional manipulation to achieve their shadowy aims. In this 3-part anthology, Vanessa Kirby joins espionage authors Henry Schlesinger and Mi...
ListenSexpionage, Part 2/3: Russian Doll | SVR from 2022-06-13T22:59
Throughout history, spies have used sex, seduction and emotional manipulation to achieve their shadowy aims. In this 3-part anthology, Vanessa Kirby joins espionage authors Henry Schlesinger and Mi...
ListenSexpionage, Part 1/3: Operation Diamond | Mossad from 2022-06-06T22:59
Throughout history, spies have used sex, seduction and emotional manipulation to achieve their shadowy aims. In this 3-part anthology, Vanessa Kirby joins espionage authors Henry Schlesinger and Mi...
ListenThe Spy's Son, Part 2/2: Dark Inheritance | CIA from 2022-05-30T22:59
When he was arrested in 1996, Jim Nicholson - nicknamed 'Batman' - was the highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of espionage for the Russian Federation. 10 years later, he did it again. Join...
ListenIntroducing... The Spying Game from 2022-05-25T10:00
The Spying Game is a new series from the Spyscape Podcast Network in which real spies and storytellers dissect your favourite tales of espionage. Your host Rory Bremner sits down with Hollywood fil...
ListenThe Spy's Son, Part 1/2: Bringing Down Batman | CIA from 2022-05-24T08:17
When he was arrested in 1996, Jim Nicholson - nicknamed 'Batman' - was the highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of espionage for the Russian Federation. 10 years later, he did it again. Join...
ListenNetwork Request | DIA from 2022-05-17T10:00
L:inkedIn - the social network for professionals - is a part of working life for millions of people around the world. But do you really know who you're connecting with? Vanessa Kirby joins former D...
ListenI Was Never Here | CSIS from 2022-05-10T10:00
True Spies work in all sorts of far-flung locales - but some assignments are closer to home. For Andrew Kirsch, a Special Operations officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the sub...
ListenHidden Hand | CIA from 2022-05-03T10:00
Deep in the jungles of Central America, right-wing 'Contra' guerrillas face off against government forces. Major Alex, a Honduran army officer, trains and supplies the Contras on the ground. Except...
ListenUndercover In The Old West | Historical from 2022-04-26T10:00
In the Old West, money talks and six-guns shout. All too often, it's not a world that rewards subtlety. Enter Charlie Siringo - a detective with the world-famous Pinkerton Agency. Vanessa Kirby joi...
ListenThe Spy Who Couldn't Spell | FBI from 2022-04-19T10:00
Some stories are too fascinating to go untold. Author and journalist Yudhijit Bhattacharjee tells them. When he heard about a dyslexic spy who came close to selling some of America's most dangerous...
ListenKing of Scotland Yard | Metropolitan Police Special Branch from 2022-04-11T10:00
It's 2003, and coalition forces have taken Baghdad. A conference is held to portion out the contracts that will sustain the occupation. The United Kingdom sends a minister to negotiate their share ...
ListenPure Green Greed | FBI from 2022-04-05T10:00
In 1992, the Cold War is all but over. But for Special Agent John Whiteside, the counter-espionage case of a lifetime is about to begin. An anonymous source reports a traitor within the NSA, active...
ListenThe Man on the Mountain | USMS from 2022-03-29T10:00
In the remote mountains of Northern Idaho, there's no shortage of places to hide. Fortunately, Deputy US Marshal Marc Cameron is an expert seeker. It's 1996, and a dangerous fugitive has taken refu...
ListenQ, Followed by U | Historical from 2022-03-22T11:00
It's World War One, and German submarine technology terrorises the British Navy. Fortunately, Captain Gordon Campbell is anything but traditional. He's at the helm of the first 'Q-boats' - heavily ...
ListenCatching Noriega | DIA from 2022-03-15T11:00
It's 1989, and the USA has invaded Panama. The country's corrupt leader, General Manuel Noriega, goes in to hiding. Martha Duncan of the Defense Intelligence Agency is tasked with tracking him down...
ListenLord of the Highway | Naval Intelligence from 2022-03-08T11:00
Uruzgan Province, Southern Afghanistan. An Army convoy rumbles in on the dangerous highway from Kandahar, bringing vital supplies to American troops. This is facilitated by Matiullah Khan, a local ...
ListenHavana Syndrome Special | Analysis from 2022-03-01T11:00
2 years after the USA resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba, American intelligence officers on the island began experiencing strange and debilitating neurological symptoms. Before long, the phenom...
ListenThe Ace of Spies | Historical from 2022-02-22T11:00
Who was Britain's Ace of Spies? The truth is, nobody really knows. But the name he used was Sidney Reilly - and nobody did it better. Vanessa Kirby follows Sidney on his dark and bloody path throug...
ListenOperation: Black Biscuit | ATF from 2022-02-15T11:00
Undercover ATF Agent Jay Dobyns was shot during his first week of work. He went on to spend 27 years in the field. That should tell you something about a man who risked his personal health and happ...
ListenThe Mole | Investigation from 2022-02-08T11:00
When health issues ended Ulrich Larsen's career in the kitchen, the Danish chef embarked on an altogether more dangerous livelihood - spying on North Korea. After gaining the trust of the Korean Fr...
ListenOperation: Goldenrod | FBI from 2022-02-01T11:00
During the 1980s, a rash of hostage situations in the Middle East threatened American lives. in response, President Reagan authorised new legislation which empowered the FBI to hunt the hostage tak...
ListenHunting The Wolverine | CIA from 2022-01-25T11:00
In the desert of Southern Afghanistan, CIA Case Officer Douglas Laux is on the hunt. He's traced a number of deadly IED attacks to a shadowy figure with ties to the Taliban. Now, his mission is to ...
ListenThe Consultants | Special Forces from 2022-01-18T11:00
Jeff Miller and Nick Brockhausen are two ex-Green Berets who share a brotherhood forged in battle. Their philosophy? Where there's war, there's money to be made. And if you can do a little good at ...
ListenUndercover With The Nipsters | Investigation from 2022-01-11T11:00
Writer and researcher Julia Ebner makes a living out of infiltrating extremist groups. In the divided political landscape of the 21st century, some of those groups are making a play for the mainstr...
ListenTradecraft, Part 4 from 2022-01-04T11:00
The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft. In our fourth round of insights from the world of espionage, Vanessa Kirby meets bra...
ListenTradecraft, Part 3 from 2021-12-28T11:00
The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft. In our third round of insights from the world of espionage, Vanessa Kirby meets dari...
ListenStalin's Romeo Spy | Historical from 2021-12-21T11:00
In the fall of 1973, journalist Emil Draitser met an ageing Soviet super-spy. His name was Dmitri Brystrolyotov, and for him, sex and secrets went hand-in-hand. At the time, Emil could scarcely bel...
ListenWhite Traitor | ANC from 2021-12-14T11:00
To her colleagues, South African journalist Sue Dobson appeared to be a pro-Apartheid conservative. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In fact, she was a trained paramilitary and secre...
ListenAsset Terminated | CIA from 2021-12-07T11:00
Today, veteran CIA operative Doug Patteson is an expert in his field. But as a rookie Case Officer in South-East Asia, he still had a lot to learn. When the Agency put him in an awkward position, D...
ListenMoonlight Maze | DoD from 2021-11-30T11:00
It's 1999, and DoD intelligence officer Bob Gourley is at the vanguard of the US Government's defence against cyber-espionage. He's joined a taskforce charged with uncovering the shadowy hackers wh...
ListenMonkey Business | Historical from 2021-11-23T11:00
Spy. Counterspy. Mercenary. Informant. Ricardo 'Monkey' Morales was all these things and more. Rising from humble beginnings in Cuba, he served within various intelligence agencies before becoming ...
ListenMe and the Mullah | DIA from 2021-11-16T11:00
It's 2011, and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden is intensifying. Shawnee Delaney, a case officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency, is determined to be the one to bring him in. But her source on the ...
ListenThe War Driver | Investigation from 2021-11-09T11:00
When it comes to cyber-espionage, white-hat hacker Matt Devost is someone you want on your side. When a corporate client reported extortionate emails from an unknown aggressor, Matt was determined ...
ListenAllied with Al-Qaeda | CIA from 2021-11-02T11:00
CIA Operations Officer Doug London had one shot to recruit one of Al-Qaeda's key facilitators. Doug has to find common ground with a man with a vastly different background and belief system. Lives ...
ListenThe Reluctant Narco | DEA from 2021-10-26T10:00
When banker Keith Bulfin went to prison, he entered a waking nightmare. When he got out, things only got worse. As a reluctant agent of the DEA, he was tasked with infiltrating the brutal world of ...
ListenThe Reluctant Narco | DEA from 2021-10-26T10:00
When banker Keith Bulfin went to prison, he entered a waking nightmare. When he got out, things only got worse. As a reluctant agent of the DEA, he was tasked with infiltrating the brutal world of ...
ListenThe Digital Silk Road | Investigation from 2021-10-19T10:00
Linguist and intelligence analyst Charity Wright has spent her career monitoring China. But as the country expands its influence around the globe, she's worried that the balance of global power cou...
ListenThe Real Sopranos | FBI from 2021-10-12T10:00
FBI agent Giovanni Rocco grew up playing in the back yards of New Jersey's criminal class. As an adult, he went undercover to take them down. Vanessa Kirby follows Giovanni's descent into the viole...
ListenThe Code Clerk | FBI from 2021-10-05T10:00
In Atlanta, a woman is found murdered. The suspect? An employee of a hostile Embassy, responsible for monitoring secret communications. He's also a spy, recruited by the FBI. Now he's on the run, a...
ListenThe Philadelphia Wire | FBI from 2021-09-28T10:00
Northern Philadelphia, 1989. FBI agent Judy Tyler is on the hunt. Her target? A local entrepreneur with a lucrative side-line as a cocaine kingpin. From wiretaps to polygraphs to secret cameras, Ju...
ListenThe Gadget Master | MI6 | WW2 from 2021-09-21T10:00
Missionary. Agent. Inventor. Charles Fraser-Smith fought his war from a workshop, creating the real-life equipment that would inspire one of Ian Flemings' most beloved creations - Q, the MI6 quarte...
ListenA Spy Amongst Skinheads | FBI from 2021-09-14T10:00
It's the early-90's, and the USA is still reeling from the LA Race Riots. A paranoid Far Right are preparing for all-out war. With his blonde hair and blue eyes, Mike German is the picture-perfect ...
ListenThe Armageddon Papers | FBI from 2021-09-07T10:00
What secrets do you give away with the twitch of an eyelid - the tap of a finger? Joe Navarro knows. As an FBI agent, he developed an innate gift for reading body language. But when Joe came up aga...
ListenRise and Kill First | Mossad from 2021-08-31T10:00
Ronen Bergman is comfortable in the company of spies. As one of Israel's foremost investigative journalists, he's been privy to the inner workings of the country's legendary intelligence community....
ListenOperation: Bullwinkle | FBI from 2021-08-24T10:00
Robert Wittman was a special kind of Special Agent. During his long career with the FBI, he went undercover to retrieve millions of dollars worth of stolen art. When a priceless Rembrandt was stole...
ListenPsychic Spies | DoD from 2021-08-17T10:00
As head of the STARGATE programme, sponsored by the US Department of Defense, his job was to prove the existence of psychic phenomena - and then use them against America's enemies. Vanessa Kirby en...
ListenThe Ritchie Boys | WW2 from 2021-08-10T10:00
It's 1944 - 3 days after D-Day. 22-year old Guy Stern lands in Normandy. Unlike many of his comrades in the US Army, it's not his first time in Europe. Forced to leave Germany in 1937, he returns a...
ListenYou Me, Same Same | CIA from 2021-08-03T10:00
Ryan Hillsberg can be whoever you want him to be. As a CIA case officer, he recruited assets for the Agency by transforming himself into their ideal companion - a confidante par excellence. But mai...
ListenMission in the Dog Meat Valley | Investigation from 2021-07-27T10:00
CW: Animal cruelty. In South Korea, dog meat is a controversial delicacy. The farming of dogs for meat is largely unregulated, and animals are kept in horrendous conditions. Activists Nami Kim and ...
ListenThe ATHAR Project | Investigation from 2021-07-20T10:00
Across the ravaged towns and cities of Syria, looters are trafficking the country's rich reserves of priceless antiquities. Amr Al-Azm and Katie A. Paul, two US-based academics, became unlikely spy...
ListenCIA? More Like CON | Investigation from 2021-07-13T10:00
Wayne Simmons was the toast of cable news. A former CIA officer with a storied operational history, he was called upon to comment on matters concerning the Agency. The only problem? He'd never serv...
ListenCatch Me If You Can | BRIXMIS from 2021-07-06T10:00
In the divided Germany of the 1980s, spying was a way of life. Dave Butler knows - he was there. As part of BRIXMIS, a British military liaison unit with an unofficial sideline in espionage, he ran...
ListenCatch Me If You Can | BRIXMIS from 2021-07-06T10:00
In the divided Germany of the 1980s, spying was a way of life. Dave Butler knows - he was there. As part of BRIXMIS, a British military liaison unit with an unofficial sideline in espionage, he ran...
ListenThe Mouse at Pearl Harbor | WW2 from 2021-06-29T10:00
A single spy can change the course of history - for better, or for worse. Takeo Yoshikawa was one such spy. Stationed in Honolulu, Yoshikawa's intelligence was used by the Japanese to launch a deva...
ListenThe Sociopathic Spy | CIA from 2021-06-22T11:29
Location - unknown. Time period - classified. Hero? You decide. Jim Lawler is one of the CIA's most successful recruiters of foreign spies. But even he had to start somewhere. Vanessa Kirby joins J...
ListenThe Destroyed Man | Investigation from 2021-06-15T10:00
Betrayal. It's an important theme in spy fiction. But Steve Chao, investigative journalist, has seen it up close - and the price of betrayal is all too real. Vanessa Kirby joins Steve as he meets a...
ListenTrade Secrets | Investigation from 2021-06-08T10:00
Once, money made the world go round. Today, it's semiconductors. They're the hardware that enables global communications, nuclear weapons systems and more. Taiwan is the world's largest semiconduct...
ListenThe Avenger | Investigation from 2021-06-01T10:00
When bank employee Everett Stern discovered endemic corruption at HSBC, he knew he had a choice to make. Turn a blind eye - or blow the whistle. But for a man like Everett, that was no choice at al...
ListenThe Avenger | Investigation from 2021-06-01T10:00
When bank employee Everett Stern discovered endemic corruption at HSBC, he knew he had a choice to make. Turn a blind eye - or blow the whistle. But for a man like Everett, that was no choice at al...
ListenIntroducing... The Razumov Files from 2021-06-01T09:00
The Razumov Files, from Spyscape Studios, is an audacious audio reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s classic spy thriller Under Western Eyes, starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey, Brave New Worl...
ListenMaking Jack Falcone | FBI from 2021-05-25T10:00
CW: Violence, Suicide, Strong Language
Undercover FBI agent Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia spent more than 20 years in disguise as various drug dealers, gangbangers and bad guys. But his final role was ...
Making Jack Falcone | FBI from 2021-05-25T10:00
CW: Violence, Suicide, Strong Language Undercover FBI agent Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia spent more than 20 years in disguise as various drug dealers, gangbangers and bad guys. But his final role was the ...
ListenThe Boiling Frog | CIA from 2021-05-18T10:00
At the peak of his career, Jack Devine was one of the world's top spymasters. But everybody starts somewhere.
Vanessa Kirby follows Jack to Chile on his first overseas assignment. It's 1971, an...
The Boiling Frog | CIA from 2021-05-18T10:00
At the peak of his career, Jack Devine was one of the world's top spymasters. But everybody starts somewhere. Vanessa Kirby follows Jack to Chile on his first overseas assignment. It's 1971, and th...
ListenHer Majesty's Secret Service | Historical from 2021-05-11T10:00
Protestant England faces an existential threat from Catholic Spain. Queen Elizabeth calls on Sir Francis Walsingham, the Royal spymaster, to undermine the Spanish war effort. Vanessa Kirby tells a ...
ListenHer Majesty's Secret Service | Historical from 2021-05-11T10:00
Protestant England faces an existential threat from Catholic Spain. Queen Elizabeth calls on Sir Francis Walsingham, the Royal spymaster, to undermine the Spanish war effort. Vanessa Kirby tells a ...
ListenSearching For The Soldier | NSA from 2021-05-04T10:00
From the Australian outback, a top-secret NSA signals station intercepts intelligence concerning America and her allies. It's 1995, and a US fighter pilot is shot down over the former Yugoslavia. T...
ListenSearching For The Soldier | NSA from 2021-05-04T10:00
From the Australian outback, a top-secret NSA signals station intercepts intelligence concerning America and her allies. It's 1995, and a US fighter pilot is shot down over the former Yugoslavia. T...
ListenRussia's Most Wanted | Investigation from 2021-04-27T10:00
Bill Browder's fund made billions in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. But in the new Russia, the cost of doing business could be counted in more than cash. When Bill caught wind of widespre...
ListenRussia's Most Wanted | Investigation from 2021-04-27T10:00
Bill Browder's fund made billions in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. But in the new Russia, the cost of doing business could be counted in more than cash. When Bill caught wind of widespre...
ListenOperation Game Over | Investigation from 2021-04-20T10:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Andrea Crosta, a dotcom tycoon turned undercover activist and elephant saviour. Confronted with the brutality of the illegal ivory trade, Andrea made it his mission to make a di...
ListenOperation Game Over | Investigation from 2021-04-20T10:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Andrea Crosta, a dotcom tycoon turned undercover activist and elephant saviour. Confronted with the brutality of the illegal ivory trade, Andrea made it his mission to make a di...
ListenIndian Actors | Investigation from 2021-04-13T10:00
Meet the EU Disinfo Lab, the open-source investigators exposing disinformation at the heart of Europe's most important institutions. In 2019, they discovered a complex network of websites and NGOs,...
ListenIndian Actors | Investigation from 2021-04-13T10:00
Meet the EU Disinfo Lab, the open-source investigators exposing disinformation at the heart of Europe's most important institutions. In 2019, they discovered a complex network of websites and NGOs,...
ListenOperation Zulu Cricket | Detective from 2021-04-06T10:00
What do you get if you combine a huge quantity of heroin, a terrorist organisation, and an undercover agent? Operation Zulu Cricket. Peter Bleksley spent years breaking bread with dangerous crimina...
ListenOperation Zulu Cricket | Detective from 2021-04-06T10:00
What do you get if you combine a huge quantity of heroin, a terrorist organisation, and an undercover agent? Operation Zulu Cricket. Peter Bleksley spent years breaking bread with dangerous crimina...
ListenNew Russia, New Rules | CIA from 2021-03-30T10:00
It's 1993, and Russia is tearing itself apart. A violent coup is threatening to derail Boris Yeltsin's fragile post-Soviet government. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Deputy Chief of Station for the CIA in Mo...
ListenNew Russia, New Rules | CIA from 2021-03-30T10:00
It's 1993, and Russia is tearing itself apart. A violent coup is threatening to derail Boris Yeltsin's fragile post-Soviet government. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Deputy Chief of Station for the CIA in Mo...
ListenThe Spy In The Cornfield | FBI from 2021-03-23T11:00
In the golden cornfields of rural Iowa, mysterious men are stealing seeds. Corn is big business - and the secret of growing good corn is priceless intellectual property. But is this a simple case o...
ListenThe Spy In The Cornfield | FBI from 2021-03-23T11:00
In the golden cornfields of rural Iowa, mysterious men are stealing seeds. Corn is big business - and the secret of growing good corn is priceless intellectual property. But is this a simple case o...
ListenBring Down The Big Man | Detective from 2021-03-16T11:00
From London to Lagos, a web of corruption is spreading. At its center is James Ibori, AKA The Big Man - a Nigerian politician with a taste for the high life. Vanessa Kirby meets Jonathan Benton, th...
ListenBring Down The Big Man | Detective from 2021-03-16T11:00
From London to Lagos, a web of corruption is spreading. At its center is James Ibori, AKA The Big Man - a Nigerian politician with a taste for the high life. Vanessa Kirby meets Jonathan Benton, th...
ListenSurviving NXIVM | Investigation | Spy Sisters from 2021-03-09T11:00
In 2005, actress Sarah Edmondson joined NXIVM, a company offering 'personal development' coaching. 12 years later, she realized that she had been brainwashed into a dangerous sex-trafficking cult. ...
ListenSurviving NXIVM | Investigation | Spy Sisters from 2021-03-09T11:00
In 2005, actress Sarah Edmondson joined NXIVM, a company offering 'personal development' coaching. 12 years later, she realized that she had been brainwashed into a dangerous sex-trafficking cult. ...
ListenThe Profiler | FBI from 2021-03-02T11:00
July 20th, 1993. White House Counsel Vince Foster is found dead, apparently by his own hand. Rumours of foul play are circulating - and some very famous names are in the mix. FBI Profiler Jim Cleme...
ListenThe Profiler | FBI from 2021-03-02T11:00
July 20th, 1993. White House Counsel Vince Foster is found dead, apparently by his own hand. Rumours of foul play are circulating - and some very famous names are in the mix. FBI Profiler Jim Cleme...
ListenThe Not-So-Beautiful Game | Detective from 2021-02-23T11:00
It's high summer in the Italian beach resort of Rimini. But Garry Rogers isn’t on holiday. He’s working undercover, infiltrating some of Britain's most dangerous soccer hooligans as they enjoy the ...
ListenThe Not-So-Beautiful Game | Detective from 2021-02-23T11:00
It's high summer in the Italian beach resort of Rimini. But Garry Rogers isn’t on holiday. He’s working undercover, infiltrating some of Britain's most dangerous soccer hooligans as they enjoy the ...
ListenPutin's Palace? | Investigation from 2021-02-16T00:00
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny believes the Russian state poisoned him in August 2020. In January 2021, he released a film that sent shockwaves through the country. Part-exposé, part-psyc...
ListenPutin's Palace? | Investigation from 2021-02-16T00:00
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny believes the Russian state poisoned him in August 2020. In January 2021, he released a film that sent shockwaves through the country. Part-exposé, part-psyc...
ListenInside NAMBLA | FBI from 2021-02-09T00:00
CW: This episode contains details relating to the sexual abuse of children. In 26 years undercover with the FBI, Bob Hamer developed a thick skin. He's posed as a contract killer, a drug dealer - e...
ListenInside NAMBLA | FBI from 2021-02-09T00:00
CW: This episode contains details relating to the sexual abuse of children.
In 26 years undercover with the FBI, Bob Hamer developed a thick skin. He's posed as a contract killer, a drug dealer...
Seven Female Spies | WW2 | Spy Sisters from 2021-02-02T11:00
CW: This episode contains descriptions of Nazi war-crimes that some listeners may find upsetting. During the Second World War, Vera Atkins sent hundreds of British spies into Occupied France. Some ...
ListenSeven Female Spies | WW2 | Spy Sisters from 2021-02-02T11:00
CW: This episode contains descriptions of Nazi war-crimes that some listeners may find upsetting.
During the Second World War, Vera Atkins sent hundreds of British spies into Occupied France. S...
Mandela's Spy | ANC from 2021-01-26T11:00
As an undercover officer in South Africa, Bradley Steyn played his part in a deadly culture of racial oppression - Apartheid. After meeting an inspirational freedom fighter, he made the life-changi...
ListenMandela's Spy | ANC from 2021-01-26T11:00
As an undercover officer in South Africa, Bradley Steyn played his part in a deadly culture of racial oppression - Apartheid. After meeting an inspirational freedom fighter, he made the life-changi...
ListenThe Money Spy | FSB from 2021-01-19T11:00
How do you flee your country and join the other side? A former Russian intelligence agent gives Vanessa Kirby a rare masterclass in international tradecraft. Janosh Neumann fled Moscow armed only w...
ListenThe Money Spy | FSB from 2021-01-19T11:00
How do you flee your country and join the other side? A former Russian intelligence agent gives Vanessa Kirby a rare masterclass in international tradecraft. Janosh Neumann fled Moscow armed only w...
ListenFreeing Meek Mill | Detective from 2021-01-12T11:00
In 2017, superstar rapper Meek Mill was incarcerated - again. To free him, Tyler Maroney had to go back to the scene of Meek's first arrest a decade earlier, and use all his best tradecraft to cont...
ListenFreeing Meek Mill | Detective from 2021-01-12T11:00
In 2017, superstar rapper Meek Mill was incarcerated - again. To free him, Tyler Maroney had to go back to the scene of Meek's first arrest a decade earlier, and use all his best tradecraft to cont...
ListenHow To Make Friends and Stage Coups | CIA from 2021-01-05T11:00
Damascus, 1949. A plot to bring down the Syrian government is brewing. Stewart Copeland voices the jazz musician, raconteur, and CIA agent pulling the strings - his father Miles Copeland. Vanessa K...
ListenHow To Make Friends and Stage Coups | CIA from 2021-01-05T11:00
Damascus, 1949. A plot to bring down the Syrian government is brewing. Stewart Copeland voices the jazz musician, raconteur, and CIA agent pulling the strings - his father Miles Copeland. Vanessa K...
ListenTradecraft, Part 2 from 2020-12-29T11:00
A good spy needs a very particular set of skills. But there's only so much that training can prepare you for. Tradecraft - the real business of spying - has to be learnt on the job. In the second i...
ListenTradecraft, Part 1 from 2020-12-22T11:00
A good spy needs a very particular set of skills. But there's only so much that training can prepare you for. Tradecraft - the real business of spying - has to be learnt on the job. In the first in...
ListenThe Irishman | JCUNI from 2020-12-15T11:00
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?
Vanessa Kirby meets the spy behind the camera. Sean Harnett worked at one of the British Army's most secretive regiments, responsible for tracking ter...
The Irishman | JCUNI from 2020-12-15T11:00
Ever get the feeling you're being watched? Vanessa Kirby meets the spy behind the camera. Sean Harnett worked at one of the British Army's most secretive regiments, responsible for tracking terrori...
ListenOlympic Games | Investigation from 2020-12-08T11:00
Meet the men who uncovered a new era in global warfare. Eric Chien and Liam O'Murchu identified Stuxnet, the digital weapon designed to attack the physical world. To figure out its target, and its ...
ListenOlympic Games | Investigation from 2020-12-08T11:00
Meet the men who uncovered a new era in global warfare. Eric Chien and Liam O'Murchu identified Stuxnet, the digital weapon designed to attack the physical world. To figure out its target, and its ...
ListenThe 'Dreams-Come-True' Business | CIA from 2020-12-01T11:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Barry Broman, a CIA case officer who recruited foreign spies for the USA. Working alongside a suave MI6 officer, Barry was tasked with bringing a high-ranking Communist over to ...
ListenThe 'Dreams-Come-True' Business | CIA from 2020-12-01T11:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Barry Broman, a CIA case officer who recruited foreign spies for the USA. Working alongside a suave MI6 officer, Barry was tasked with bringing a high-ranking Communist over to ...
ListenBlood On The Waterside | MI5 from 2020-11-24T00:00
Vanessa Kirby meets a spy who infiltrated the political wing of the Irish Republican movement. Willie Carlin risked his life in Derry, Northern Ireland, on a daily basis to provide the UK with inte...
ListenBlood On The Waterside | MI5 from 2020-11-24T00:00
Vanessa Kirby meets a spy who infiltrated the political wing of the Irish Republican movement. Willie Carlin risked his life in Derry, Northern Ireland, on a daily basis to provide the UK with inte...
ListenDrug Wars | Detective from 2020-11-17T00:00
Vanessa Kirby goes undercover with a man who spent 14 years fighting the War on Drugs. Disguised as an addict, Neil Woods risked his life to infiltrate brutal narcotics gangs. The experience led hi...
ListenDrug Wars | Detective from 2020-11-17T00:00
Vanessa Kirby goes undercover with a man who spent 14 years fighting the War on Drugs. Disguised as an addict, Neil Woods risked his life to infiltrate brutal narcotics gangs. The experience led hi...
ListenHacked | Investigation from 2020-11-10T00:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Nick Davies, the reporter who used covert skills to break one of the most explosive stories of the Noughties. The News of the World, a British tabloid, had been deliberately hac...
ListenHacked | Investigation from 2020-11-10T00:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Nick Davies, the reporter who used covert skills to break one of the most explosive stories of the Noughties. The News of the World, a British tabloid, had been deliberately hac...
ListenBurgers & Spies | FBI from 2020-11-03T00:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Naveed Jamali, an FBI operative who worked his way into the world of espionage. Hoping to impress US Intelligence, Naveed used family connections to set himself up as a double a...
ListenBurgers&Spies | FBI from 2020-11-03T00:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Naveed Jamali, an FBI operative who worked his way into the world of espionage. Hoping to impress US Intelligence, Naveed used family connections to set himself up as a double a...
ListenCodename: Madeleine | WW2 | Spy Sisters from 2020-10-27T00:00
Vanessa Kirby lands in Nazi-occupied France with Noor Inayat Khan, the Allied spy who risked her life to aid the Resistance. Armed with a wireless radio, Noor relayed vital intelligence to the Brit...
ListenCodename: Madeleine | WW2 | Spy Sisters from 2020-10-27T00:00
Vanessa Kirby lands in Nazi-occupied France with Noor Inayat Khan, the Allied spy who risked her life to aid the Resistance. Armed with a wireless radio, Noor relayed vital intelligence to the Brit...
ListenSister Spies | WW2 from 2020-10-19T23:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Pat and Jean Owtram, two British sisters who played crucial roles as Allied codebreakers during World War 2. Bound by the Official Secrets Act, neither sister knew that the othe...
ListenSister Spies | WW2 from 2020-10-19T23:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Pat and Jean Owtram, two British sisters who played crucial roles as Allied codebreakers during World War 2. Bound by the Official Secrets Act, neither sister knew that the othe...
ListenThe Argonauts | CIA from 2020-10-12T23:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Mark and Cora Lijek, two ordinary American diplomats who took part in one of the most daring espionage operations in CIA history, dramatized in the Hollywood film, Argo. In 1979...
ListenThe Argonauts | CIA from 2020-10-12T23:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Mark and Cora Lijek, two ordinary American diplomats who took part in one of the most daring espionage operations in CIA history, dramatized in the Hollywood film, Argo. In 1979...
ListenThe Limping Lady | WW2 | Spy Sisters from 2020-10-05T23:00
Vanessa Kirby goes behind enemy lines with Virginia Hall, one of the bravest Allied heroines of WWII. As part of ‘Churchill's Secret Army’, Virginia was sent into occupied France to organize resist...
ListenThe Limping Lady | WW2 | Spy Sisters from 2020-10-05T23:00
Vanessa Kirby goes behind enemy lines with Virginia Hall, one of the bravest Allied heroines of WWII. As part of ‘Churchill's Secret Army’, Virginia was sent into occupied France to organize resist...
ListenJustice For Leon Klinghoffer | CIA from 2020-09-28T23:00
Vanessa Kirby follows CIA veteran Bob Dougherty as he seeks justice for the kidnap and killing of an American war veteran aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. Bob had to wait nearly 20 years ...
ListenJustice For Leon Klinghoffer | CIA from 2020-09-28T23:00
Vanessa Kirby follows CIA veteran Bob Dougherty as he seeks justice for the kidnap and killing of an American war veteran aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. Bob had to wait nearly 20 years ...
ListenBlinking Red | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-09-21T23:00
CIA analyst Gina Bennett shows Vanessa Kirby the origins of America's most infamous enemy. Throughout the 1990s, Osama bin Laden launched a series of attacks on American interests at home and abroa...
ListenBlinking Red | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-09-21T23:00
CIA analyst Gina Bennett shows Vanessa Kirby the origins of America's most infamous enemy. Throughout the 1990s, Osama bin Laden launched a series of attacks on American interests at home and abroa...
ListenThe Nuclear Superhighway | CIA from 2020-09-14T23:00
Undercover CIA agent James Olson takes Vanessa Kirby on a nail-biting mission behind the Iron Curtain. In the late 1970s, James was tasked with tapping an underground communications line between Mo...
ListenThe Nuclear Superhighway | CIA from 2020-09-14T23:00
Undercover CIA agent James Olson takes Vanessa Kirby on a nail-biting mission behind the Iron Curtain. In the late 1970s, James was tasked with tapping an underground communications line between Mo...
ListenExit Strategy | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-09-07T23:00
CIA analyst Sarah Carlson drops Vanessa Kirby into the pressure-cooker of post-revolutionary Libya. In 2011, the Arab Spring swept Colonel Gaddafi from office, leaving a deadly power vacuum. Three ...
ListenExit Strategy | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-09-07T23:00
CIA analyst Sarah Carlson drops Vanessa Kirby into the pressure-cooker of post-revolutionary Libya. In 2011, the Arab Spring swept Colonel Gaddafi from office, leaving a deadly power vacuum. Three ...
ListenThe Targeter | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-08-31T23:00
Former CIA targeting officer Nada Bakos takes Vanessa Kirby on the controversial hunt for one of the Iraq War's deadliest terrorists. Abu Musab Al-Zaqarwi was a two-bit criminal until the US govern...
ListenThe Targeter | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-08-31T23:00
Former CIA targeting officer Nada Bakos takes Vanessa Kirby on the controversial hunt for one of the Iraq War's deadliest terrorists. Abu Musab Al-Zaqarwi was a two-bit criminal until the US govern...
ListenThe Real Black Klansman | Crime from 2020-08-24T23:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Ron Stallworth, the black Colorado cop who fooled the USA's most notorious racists. In 1979, Ron and a white colleague infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Posing as...
ListenThe Real Black Klansman | Crime from 2020-08-24T23:00
Vanessa Kirby meets Ron Stallworth, the black Colorado cop who fooled the USA's most notorious racists. In 1979, Ron and a white colleague infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Posing as...
ListenBlackbird | USAF from 2020-08-17T23:00
Colonel Buz Carpenter puts Vanessa Kirby in the cockpit of his legendary SR-71 "Blackbird" spy plane. In 1979, two Gulf nations were on the brink of war. To negotiate peace, the USA needed detailed...
ListenBlackbird | USAF from 2020-08-17T23:00
Colonel Buz Carpenter puts Vanessa Kirby in the cockpit of his legendary SR-71 "Blackbird" spy plane. In 1979, two Gulf nations were on the brink of war. To negotiate peace, the USA needed detailed...
ListenN Is For Novichok | Investigation from 2020-08-10T23:00
Vanessa Kirby gets Christo Grozev, a modern Sherlock Holmes, to share the secrets of how he solved one of the most notorious assassination attempts of the 21st century - the poisoning of retired Ru...
ListenN Is For Novichok | Investigation from 2020-08-10T23:00
Vanessa Kirby gets Christo Grozev, a modern Sherlock Holmes, to share the secrets of how he solved one of the most notorious assassination attempts of the 21st century - the poisoning of retired Ru...
ListenThe Man From The Getty | Detective from 2020-08-03T23:00
Vanessa Kirby and Charles Hill share the inside story of an iconic art theft. Hill went undercover to retrieve ‘The Scream' by Edvard Munch after it was stolen from Norway’s National Gallery. Posin...
ListenThe Man From The Getty | Detective from 2020-08-03T23:00
Vanessa Kirby and Charles Hill share the inside story of an iconic art theft. Hill went undercover to retrieve ‘The Scream' by Edvard Munch after it was stolen from Norway’s National Gallery. Posin...
ListenThe Spy Who Said No | GCHQ from 2020-07-27T23:00
Hayley Atwell meets ex-spy Katherine Gun and journalist Martin Bright, who tried to derail the course of history. On the brink of the Iraq War, Katherine leaked a top-secret memo which exposed a US...
ListenThe Spy Who Said No | GCHQ from 2020-07-27T23:00
Hayley Atwell meets ex-spy Katherine Gun and journalist Martin Bright, who tried to derail the course of history. On the brink of the Iraq War, Katherine leaked a top-secret memo which exposed a US...
ListenThe Survivor | WW2 ] Spy Sisters from 2020-07-20T23:00
Hayley Atwell meets Marthe Cohn, the brave 100-year-old French spy who stole Nazi secrets during WWII. Disguised as a German nurse, Marthe fed top-secret information to the Resistance from behind e...
ListenThe Survivor | WW2 ] Spy Sisters from 2020-07-20T23:00
Hayley Atwell meets Marthe Cohn, the brave 100-year-old French spy who stole Nazi secrets during WWII. Disguised as a German nurse, Marthe fed top-secret information to the Resistance from behind e...
ListenThe Billion Dollar Spy | CIA from 2020-07-13T23:00
`Hayley Atwell tells the story of Adolph Tolkachev, one of the CIA's most prolific Russian assets, with his handler David Rolph. David's task was to keep this priceless information flowing, but fir...
ListenThe Billion Dollar Spy | CIA from 2020-07-13T23:00
`Hayley Atwell tells the story of Adolph Tolkachev, one of the CIA's most prolific Russian assets, with his handler David Rolph. David's task was to keep this priceless information flowing, but fir...
ListenThe Purple Bathrobe | FBI from 2020-07-06T23:00
Hayley Atwell tells the story of the capture of the Mexican druglord El Chapo, with former FBI undercover agent Michael McGowan. To trap this murderous gangster, Michael had to convince him that he...
ListenThe Purple Bathrobe | FBI from 2020-07-06T23:00
Hayley Atwell tells the story of the capture of the Mexican druglord El Chapo, with former FBI undercover agent Michael McGowan. To trap this murderous gangster, Michael had to convince him that he...
ListenUndercover Jihadi | CSIS from 2020-06-29T23:00
Hayley Atwell relates the story of Mubin Shaikh, an Islamist extremist who became a spy for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Undercover as a member of the terrorist group that would be k...
ListenUndercover Jihadi | CSIS from 2020-06-29T23:00
Hayley Atwell relates the story of Mubin Shaikh, an Islamist extremist who became a spy for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Undercover as a member of the terrorist group that would be k...
ListenShadow Games | Special Forces Berlin from 2020-06-22T23:00
Hayley Atwell shares the secrets of an elite clandestine unit, Special Forces Berlin, with the help of former operative James Stejskal. Stationed in West Berlin but deployed wherever their skills w...
ListenShadow Games | Special Forces Berlin from 2020-06-22T23:00
Hayley Atwell shares the secrets of an elite clandestine unit, Special Forces Berlin, with the help of former operative James Stejskal. Stationed in West Berlin but deployed wherever their skills w...
ListenTrue Narcos | DEA from 2020-06-15T23:00
Hayley Atwell tells the story of the capture of Pablo Escobar, with the DEA agents who helped bring him down and inspired the TV show 'Narcos'. Steve Murphy and Javier Peña found themselves in Colo...
ListenTrue Narcos | DEA from 2020-06-15T23:00
Hayley Atwell tells the story of the capture of Pablo Escobar, with the DEA agents who helped bring him down and inspired the TV show 'Narcos'. Steve Murphy and Javier Peña found themselves in Colo...
ListenThe Art Of Disguise | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-06-08T23:00
Hayley Atwell explains how an effective disguise can save your life, with former CIA Head Of Disguise Jonna Mendez. On a mission to bring in a notorious terrorist on foreign soil, Jonna found herse...
ListenThe Art Of Disguise | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-06-08T23:00
Hayley Atwell explains how an effective disguise can save your life, with former CIA Head Of Disguise Jonna Mendez. On a mission to bring in a notorious terrorist on foreign soil, Jonna found herse...
ListenThe Rookie And Bin Laden | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-06-01T23:00
Hayley Atwell shares what went on during 9/11 inside The Vault, the CIA's top secret bunker, with Tracy Walder, a rookie operative who was there. 9/11 was only the second day of Tracy's first real ...
ListenThe Rookie And Bin Laden | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-06-01T23:00
Hayley Atwell shares what went on during 9/11 inside The Vault, the CIA's top secret bunker, with Tracy Walder, a rookie operative who was there. 9/11 was only the second day of Tracy's first real ...
ListenThe Spycatcher | FBI from 2020-05-25T23:00
Hayley Atwell recounts a mission to capture a Cuban agent who had infiltrated the FBI, with spycatcher Robert Booth. Robert managed to identify the traitor, but proving Kendall Myers' treachery was...
ListenThe Spycatcher | FBI from 2020-05-25T23:00
Hayley Atwell recounts a mission to capture a Cuban agent who had infiltrated the FBI, with spycatcher Robert Booth. Robert managed to identify the traitor, but proving Kendall Myers' treachery was...
ListenThe Illegal | KGB from 2020-05-18T23:00
Hayley Atwell relates the story of a KGB agent embedded deeply, too deeply, in US life, with Jack Barsky, a.k.a. Albrecht Dittrich. After many years undercover in New York, Barsky got the signal th...
ListenThe Illegal | KGB from 2020-05-18T23:00
Hayley Atwell relates the story of a KGB agent embedded deeply, too deeply, in US life, with Jack Barsky, a.k.a. Albrecht Dittrich. After many years undercover in New York, Barsky got the signal th...
ListenFair Game? | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-05-11T23:00
Hayley Atwell details a deadly conflict between espionage and politics with former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Valerie was outed in the press as an undercover agent when someone close to her challenge...
ListenFair Game? | CIA | Spy Sisters from 2020-05-11T23:00
Hayley Atwell details a deadly conflict between espionage and politics with former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Valerie was outed in the press as an undercover agent when someone close to her challenge...
ListenGray Suit And The Ghost | FBI from 2020-05-04T23:00
Hayley Atwell describes the hunt for the infamous FBI mole Robert Hanssen, with Eric O’Neill, the agent tasked with catching him. Eric needs to get Hanssen into a hire car so his own car can be sea...
ListenGray Suit And The Ghost | FBI from 2020-05-04T23:00
Hayley Atwell describes the hunt for the infamous FBI mole Robert Hanssen, with Eric O’Neill, the agent tasked with catching him. Eric needs to get Hanssen into a hire car so his own car can be sea...
ListenOperation Brothers | Mossad from 2020-04-27T23:00
Hayley Atwell tells the story of a fake diving resort that saved the lives of refugees from Ethiopia, with Mossad operative Gad Shimron. He ran roadblocks, endured arrest and interrogation, and sur...
ListenOperation Brothers | Mossad from 2020-04-27T23:00
Hayley Atwell tells the story of a fake diving resort that saved the lives of refugees from Ethiopia, with Mossad operative Gad Shimron. He ran roadblocks, endured arrest and interrogation, and sur...
ListenTrue Spies: Teaser from 2020-04-17T09:47
Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino and Daisy Ridley narrate true stories from the real spies behind the world’s greatest espionage operations. What do they know? What are their skills?...
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