Podcast artwork

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

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 spi...

more

Episode list

225

  • January 7, 2025

    1 hr 5 min

    Digging for Gold | Cold War

    Journalist and author Steve Vogel unravels the unlikely tale of George Blake, the cunning Cold War double-agent who betrayed one of the most ambitious wire-tapping operations of th...

    more
  • December 31, 2024

    42 min

    Tradecraft, Part 9

    The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft.In our ninth round of insights from the world of espionage, Rhiannon...

    more
  • December 24, 2024

    56 min

    True Spies Classic: Undercover Jihadi | CSIS

    In this True Spies Classic, Hayley Atwell tells the story of Mubin Shaikh, an Islamist extremist turned undercover agent for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Undercover ...

    more
  • December 17, 2024

    51 min

    True Spies Debriefs: Mubin Shaikh on the psyche of an extremist

    What can drive an ordinary person to extremist ideology? Hear from former security intelligence and counter terrorism operative, Mubin Shaikh, on his current work as a Counter Extr...

    more
  • December 10, 2024

    46 min

    The Spy With No Name | CIA

    National security journalist Zach Dorfman returns to True Spies with the tantalising tale of one of the War on Terror's most secretive undercover operatives. Known only by his pseu...

    more
  • December 3, 2024

    50 min

    True Spies Classic: True Narcos | DEA

    In this True Spies Classic, 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 Mu...

    more

    0:00

    0:00