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Spy Cities

Chatterbox Audio

History

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 9

Membership is informal. Discretion is not.

In this on-location series, Angus Blair and David Ludlow take you inside the real rooms where espionage history was made — the corner tables, hotel suites, smoky clubs and quiet side streets where spies exchanged envelopes and empires quietly shifted.

These are not fictional thrillers. These are the real stories of charming traitors, elegant double agents and the cities that made them.

New city. New spy. Same bad behaviour.

Meet us in the lobby.

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🇨🇦 Canada - history
19/08/2026
#42
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19/08/2026
#32
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18/08/2026
#43
🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
18/08/2026
#32
🇨🇦 Canada - history
17/08/2026
#50
🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
17/08/2026
#29
🇨🇦 Canada - history
16/08/2026
#49
🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
16/08/2026
#38
🇨🇦 Canada - history
15/08/2026
#48
🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
15/08/2026
#38

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Spy Cities: London Part Two

Season 1 · Episode 6

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 48:38

LONDON: THE DOWNFALL OF THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE

75 years on from the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess to the Soviet Union, we follow their alcohol fuelled final days in London. From upmarket hotels to station bars; from sophisticated gentlemen's clubs to louche night clubs. A tale of conspicuous consumption...

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Spy Cities: Berlin

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 • Duration 50:34

BERLIN: COLD WAR TECHNICAL ESPIONAGE HUB

Our first – but certainly not last – visit to Berlin takes us underground, to the telecom taps betrayed by double agent George Blake; underwater, as British divers wrestle to recover secrets from a crashed Soviet jet; and high above the city to the Teufelsberg listening station.

For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/Episodes

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Spy Cities: Washington

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 51:38

WASHINGTON DC: INTO THE WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS

Former CIA case officer turned intelligence historian Professor David Gioe joins us to uncover the secret side of Washington DC. Bringing an insider's perspective, he takes us to locations where some of America's most notorious traitors sold out their country.

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Spy Cities: Istanbul

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 • Duration 38:50

ISTANBUL: SPIES AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD

Byzantium. Constantinople. Stamboul. Istanbul. A city with many names to match its long history. Straddling Europe and Asia, spies have competed in the city over millennia. As we discover, rival empires have left their stamp on both espionage fact and fiction.

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Spy Cities: Lisbon

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, July 1, 2026 • Duration 49:12

LISBON 1940: THE WINDSORS - A DEADLY FARCE

Intelligence historian, and well known local guide, Marisa Filipe joins us to explore the story of a top secret tug of war between Hitler and Churchill in neutral Portugal. We follow in the footsteps of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, plus their German, British and Portuguese watchers. And enjoy a cocktail in a hotel frequented by Ian Fleming which would later feature in a Bond movie.

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Spy Cities: London

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 • Duration 37:01

The Spying Starts Here

Where the modern game was invented and professionalised.

Our first visit to London focuses on the origins of the British intelligence agencies - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - in the early 20th century. Mansfield Cumming - the original 'C' - and Vernon Kell take the helm at the Secret Service Bureau as spy mania mounts in the United Kingdom. We'll be back in London before too long!

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Spy Cities: Trailer

Season 1

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Duration 01:54

We’re Angus Blair and David Ludlow. We met at Cambridge at a time when a discreet chat over a sherry with a well connected tutor or an intriguing letter in your pigeon hole were still key entry points to the secret world.
We chose a safer life… and then decided to spend it retracing the footsteps of people who didn’t.
In this series, we’re travelling to the world’s great espionage capitals visiting the real bars, hotels, safe houses and backstreets where spies lied, flirted, betrayed and occasionally changed history.
From the Cambridge Five to Mata Hari, from double agents to double-crosses we’re meeting them where it all happened.
Pull up a chair. Just don’t say who sent you.

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Spy Cities: Gibraltar

Season 1 · Episode 7

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Duration 01:01:44

GIBRALTAR: SPIES ON THE ROCK

Guarding the Strait of Gibraltar — the all-important sea lane linking the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean — this tiny relic of the British Empire hides a labyrinth of wartime secrets in its tunnels and fortifications. A WWII espionage playground for British SOE commandos, German Abwehr agents and daring Italian frogmen, the narrow streets beneath the towering Rock of Gibraltar are still redolent of intrigue, sabotage and deception.

For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/Episodes

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Spy Cities: Tangier

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 01:01:11

TANGIER: SHADY PEOPLE IN A SUNNY PLACE

Gibraltar’s southern twin among WWII espionage hubs, this ancient Moroccan port city has seen it all. One OSS officer branded it a “nest of vipers,” and Ian Fleming stayed at the El Minzah Hotel in 1941 while planning Operation Goldeneye. A visit to the chaotic Grand Socco is a must: this was the beating heart of the Tangier International Zone (1924–1956), where spies of every stripe operated with impunity.

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