True Spies Classic: Seven Female Spies | WW2
During the Second World War, Vera Atkins sent hundreds of British spies into Occupied France. Some of them never came back - and nobody knew why. Vanessa Kirby shares the story of one woman's mission ...
11 Aug 42min
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Washington D.C
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. I...
6 Aug 31min
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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 42min
