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
True Spies: Debriefs - Valerie Plame on the future of nuclear Non-Proliferation
On this week's Debrief, catch up with the famously outed ex-CIA officer Valerie Plame.
Hear from Valerie how her career has evolved since then, and the state of the Doomsday Clock, what might happen…
00:27:16 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Operation Red Sox | CIA
Writer, analyst and investigative journalist Casey Michel explores one of the early CIA's darkest moments.
At the dawn of the Cold War, the USA sent anti-communist agents into Ukraine, tasked with r…
00:36:24 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
True Spies: Classic - The Illegal | KGB
Revisit the story of a KGB agent embedded deeply, too deeply, in US life, with Jack Barsky, a.k.a. Albrecht Dittrich.
After many years undercover in New York, Barsky got the signal that he was compr…
00:55:52 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
True Spies: Debriefs - Jack Barsky on a career after the KGB
In this True Spies: Debrief, ex-KGB agent Jack Barsky reveals the lessons his espionage career taught him, which have proved fundamental to his later life. Plus, hear details of life beyond the Iron …
00:40:19 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
The Gathering | FBI
Hear how the fantastic FBI undercover agent Dana Ridenour went from not knowing what a vegan was, to infiltrating the most dangerous domestic eco-terrorists the US had ever seen.
From SPYSCAPE, the …
00:42:23 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
True Spies: Classic - Team Alpha
Welcome back to October 17, 2001. The dust of 9/11 has barely settled. America and the world are reeling.
In this True Spies Classic, hear the story of 8 CIA officers - a crack team of linguists, tr…
01:17:22 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
True Spies: Debriefs - David Tyson on life for Afghans after The Taliban won
New from SPYSCAPE Studios - True Spies: Debriefs. In each of these new episodes, we'll dive back behind the scenes with some of our favourite True Spies, from episodes past.
This week, ex-CIA office…
00:53:01 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
Codename Tinsel Tyrant | FBI
How does a San Francisco born Silicon Valley entrepreneur, "as American as apple-pie", become a vital intelligence asset for the Soviet Bloc?
Hear the chilling tale of one James Harper, from nationa…
00:48:48 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
True Spies: Classic - Allied with Al-Qaeda
Venture into the True Spies vaults, as we take a look back at the extraordinary story of CIA Operations Officer: Doug London.
Doug only has one shot to recruit one of Al-Qaeda's key facilitators. He …
00:41:28 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
True Spies: Debriefs - Douglas London on empathy
Brand new from SPYSCAPE Studios - True Spies: Debriefs. In each of these new episodes, we'll dive back behind the scenes with some of our favourite True Spies, from episodes past.
This week, ex-CIA o…
00:40:06 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
PO Box 1142 | WW2
Join chief historian of the National Parks: Robert K Sutton, as he tells the story of Nazis on the Potomac, and those sworn to secrecy at Fort Hunt...
From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzz…
00:46:12 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
Operation Kronstadt | Historical
Former MI6 Officer Harry Ferguson tells the nail-biting story of an unlikely British spy in Bolshevik Russia - and the daring naval mission to bring him home.
From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup …
00:50:40 |
Tue 28 May 2024
The Woman Who Rescued Orwell | Historical
It's 1937. The Spanish Civil War is raging, and author George Orwell is fighting on the Socialist front. But as Orwell lives out his anti-Fascist adventure, his wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, is embroil…
00:45:46 |
Tue 21 May 2024
The War on Terror, Part Two - From Khost to Compounds | CIA
Former CIA Operations Officer Aaron Brown joins Rhiannon Neads to discuss his role in two defining moments in the CIA's War on Terror.
In Part 2, the aftermath of Khost informs the most dramatic oper…
00:44:23 |
Tue 14 May 2024
The War on Terror, Part One - From Cairo to Khost | CIA
Former CIA Operations Officer Aaron Brown joins Rhiannon Neads to discuss his role in two defining moments in the CIA's War on Terror.
In Part 1, we follow Aaron's journey into the Agency's inner san…
00:37:57 |
Tue 07 May 2024
Disinformation Warfare, Part Two - America | Investigation
Just how influential is the 'white noise' of information, and disinformation, emanating from Russia?
In this second and final episode on the phenomenon of modern disinformation, hear from author an…
00:56:42 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Disinformation Warfare, Part One - The Troll Farm | Investigation
Just how influential is the 'white noise' of information, and disinformation, emanating from Russia?
In this first of two special episodes on the phenomenon of modern disinformation, Ukrainian-Britis…
00:47:36 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Kim Philby, Super Spy: Part Two, The Third Man
Born to the British upper-crust - devoted to the Revolution. Harold 'Kim' Philby was the ultimate Soviet superspy.
For decades, Philby sold secrets to the Russians from inside the upper echelons of M…
00:52:02 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Kim Philby, Super Spy: Part One, Codename Sonny
Born to the British upper-crust - devoted to the Revolution. Harold 'Kim' Philby was the ultimate Soviet superspy.
For decades, Philby sold secrets to the Russians from inside the upper echelons of M…
00:52:12 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Narcotopia, Part Two - Thy Will Be Done | Investigation
Nestled in the mountains of Myanmar, there's a nation that you won't find on the map. The mysterious, controversial Wa State is what journalist Patrick Winn calls a 'Narcotopia' - a country whose mai…
00:46:55 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
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