True Spies Debrief: Antonia Senior on De-Mythologising the Cambridge Five
Author Antonia Senior joins Morgan Childs to discuss the Cambridge Five - a British spy ring so notorious that aspects of their legacy have passed in to legend. Antonia's book, Stalin's Apostles, see...
4 Aug 40min
The Great Escapers | WW2
In September of 1943, thousands of British servicemen were being held in Italian PoW camps. When Mussolini fell, many stayed put, hoping to be liberated by an Allied advance. But others took their f...
28 Jul 53min
True Spies Classic: The Destroyed Man | Investigation
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. In this classic episode of True Spies from...
21 Jul 45min
True Spies Debrief: Stephan Talty on The American School of Spies
Beginning with the invasion by Mussolini's army in October 1940, Greece was pulled into the Second World War and with it came a band of archeologists, classicists, and intellectuals who risked their l...
14 Jul 36min
Bitter Fruit and Black Ops | CIA/MI6
As the Iron Curtain descends across Eastern Europe, the West is determined to roll back the march of Communism - starting with Albania. Historian Stephen Long is your guide to Operation BGFiend/Valu...
7 Jul 42min
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Berlin
Content Warning: This episode contains sex references. In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide to the shadowy side of the world's espionage capitals. ...
2 Jul 33min
True Spies Classic: Hunting The Wolverine | CIA
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. In this classic episode of...
30 Jun 51min
True Spies Debrief: Ralf Little and David Eldridge on Staging Le Carré
True Spies producer Joe Foley speaks to Ralf Little and David Eldridge - the star and writer of the stage version of John Le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, currently touring the UK. The...
23 Jun 37min
