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
Indian Actors | Investigation
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, a…
00:43:26 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
Operation Zulu Cricket | Detective
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 criminals…
00:46:02 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
New Russia, New Rules | CIA
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 Mosc…
00:39:57 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
The Spy In The Cornfield | FBI
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 of …
00:44:53 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Bring Down The Big Man | Detective
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, the …
00:48:21 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Surviving NXIVM | Investigation | Spy Sisters
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. Sh…
00:49:46 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
The Profiler | FBI
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 Clement…
00:50:14 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
The Not-So-Beautiful Game | Detective
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 19…
00:37:52 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Putin's Palace? | Investigation
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-psycho…
00:43:21 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Inside NAMBLA | FBI
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 - eve…
01:02:36 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Seven Female Spies | WW2 | Spy Sisters
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 of…
00:43:00 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Mandela's Spy | ANC
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-changing…
00:47:23 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
The Money Spy | FSB
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 wit…
00:47:49 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Freeing Meek Mill | Detective
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 conten…
00:42:51 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
How To Make Friends and Stage Coups | CIA
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 Kir…
00:39:57 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Tradecraft, Part 2
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 ins…
00:41:29 |
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Tradecraft, Part 1
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 inst…
00:47:28 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
The Irishman | JCUNI
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 terrorist…
00:51:54 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Olympic Games | Investigation
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 cr…
00:46:47 |
Tue 08 Dec 2020
The 'Dreams-Come-True' Business | CIA
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 th…
00:39:19 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
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