True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino, Daisy Ridley and Rhiannon Neads 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.
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A Cup & Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Music: Nick Ryan.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 292
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Rise and Kill First | Mossad
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. B…
00:51:14 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Operation: Bullwinkle | FBI
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 stolen …
00:38:11 |
Tue 24 Aug 2021
Psychic Spies | DoD
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 ente…
00:40:42 |
Tue 17 Aug 2021
The Ritchie Boys | WW2
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 as …
00:49:25 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
You Me, Same Same | CIA
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 maint…
00:38:49 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Mission in the Dog Meat Valley | Investigation
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 Ni…
00:36:42 |
Tue 27 Jul 2021
The ATHAR Project | Investigation
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 spyma…
00:44:01 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
CIA? More Like CON | Investigation
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 served…
00:39:26 |
Tue 13 Jul 2021
Catch Me If You Can | BRIXMIS
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 m…
00:40:21 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
The Mouse at Pearl Harbor | WW2
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 devast…
00:46:10 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
The Sociopathic Spy | CIA
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 Jim…
00:41:19 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
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. Vanessa Kirby joins Steve as he meets a r…
00:43:04 |
Tue 15 Jun 2021
Trade Secrets | Investigation
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 semiconductor…
00:38:40 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Introducing... The Razumov Files
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 World)…
00:03:08 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
Making Jack Falcone | FBI
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 on…
00:52:48 |
Tue 25 May 2021
The Boiling Frog | CIA
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 the …
00:36:43 |
Tue 18 May 2021
Her Majesty's Secret Service | Historical
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 st…
00:48:50 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Searching For The Soldier | NSA
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. The…
00:35:57 |
Tue 04 May 2021
Russia's Most Wanted | Investigation
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 widespread…
00:42:51 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Operation Game Over | Investigation
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 diff…
00:47:48 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
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