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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Fly Fishing | 327 Aug 202400:43:26

When Willie Carlin makes an alarming discovery in an IRA safe house, he must choose between preserving his cover or conscience.


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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Ballots Not Bullets | 220 Aug 202400:39:15

Stuck with a wayward handler, MI5 agent Willie Carlin hunts for a way out, only to get sucked deeper into the Irish republican movement.


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Twin Towers | 317 Jun 202400:38:44

Aimen Dean is now working undercover posing as a loyal jihadi in Afghanistan, while actually spying for the British intelligence service MI6. And he knows that one mistake is all it will take to wind up dead. But that’s not his only worry because the sense that al-Qaeda’s got a major plot in the works is growing by the day.


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Londonistan | 210 Jun 202400:37:35

Aimen Dean is trapped. He wants out of al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but no one gets to leave the jihadi training camps without permission. So when a missile strike hands him the perfect excuse to leave he seizes the chance to break free.


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Holy War | 103 Jun 202400:40:26

It’s 1994 and 16-year-old Aimen Dean wants to die. He’s heading to war-torn Bosnia to join the Mujahideen and save fellow Muslims. He hopes to become a martyr so that he can be reunited with his dead parents in paradise. Instead, he’s about to be confronted by a bloody reality.


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The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | The Unsung Heroines Of WW2 | 527 May 202400:31:00

The endeavors of the women of the Special Operatives Executive were vital to many of Britain's successes during WW2. But the secretive nature of their work meant that many of their heroic feats have been lost to time.

Anita Anand discusses how exactly they waged a secret war for freedom, with Rick Stroud, author of Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE Heroines who fought to free Nazi occupied France.


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The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | Liberté | 420 May 202400:36:18

After months on the run Noor Inayat Khan's luck takes a turn for the worse. But she doesn't go down without a fight - and the Nazis soon discover that the Indian princess can draw blood.


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The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | Don't Stand Still | 313 May 202400:35:21

Britain’s Prosper spy network is falling apart in Northern France. Every day the Gestapo seems to arrest yet another agent and Noor Inayat Khan finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Nazis in a one-woman bid to keep communication channels with London open.


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The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | One Summer In Paris | 206 May 202400:34:23

Noor Inayat Khan is back in France, eager to use her radio skills to help fight back against the Nazi occupation. But when two other agents fall into the Gestapo’s hands, she and the rest of the British spy ring in Paris find themselves being hunted down.


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The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | The Tiger Stirs | 129 Apr 202400:37:49

It’s June 1940 and the German forces are closing in on Paris. Noor Inayat Khan escapes to Britain just in time but is determined to return to Nazi-occupied France as a radio operator for Britain’s new covert ops agency. But her recruiters encounter a problem: she strongly believes it is wrong to lie.


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The Spy Who Saved MI5 | How the Cambridge Five Changed MI5 | 522 Apr 202400:38:22

Why was the Cambridge Five scandal so embarrassing to MI5? And how significant was Oleg Lyalin's success in restoring faith in British Intelligence? Tristan Donovan discusses the notorious spy-ring and its lasting impact with Andrew Lownie, the author of Stalin's Englishman.


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The Spy Who Saved MI5 | The Dominoes Fall | 415 Apr 202400:38:46

Operation Foot is now happening. And British government knows that its attempt to neutralise the KGB in London will be met with hostility from Moscow. But it’s not just the UK that must prepare for the retaliation, for Oleg Lyalin is also about to discover what it will cost to escape the KGB’s wrath.


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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | A Divided Land | 113 Aug 202400:41:36

When Willie Carlin quits the British Army to return to Northern Ireland during The Troubles, he gets an unusual job offer: to spy on his own catholic community.


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The Spy Who Saved MI5 | No Return | 308 Apr 202400:33:27

There’s panic at MI5 headquarters. Oleg Lyalin, their man inside the KGB, has just been arrested for drunk driving putting Operation Foot in jeopardy. But as MI5 races to reach him before the KGB can, Lyalin is working out a daring new plan that will force the British security service to place its trust in him.


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The Spy Who Saved MI5 | The Pressure Cooker | 202 Apr 202400:36:36

Oleg Lyalin is now compromised. To survive, he must now find a way to maintain the fictions of his multiple lives. But when his messy love life spirals out of control, Moscow sends in a KGB investigator to uncover what’s really going on in London.


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The Spy Who Saved MI5 | The Spider and the Fly | 126 Mar 202400:36:32

MI5 is on its knees at the dawn of the 1970s: Soviet spies are running free around the country and the government won’t boot them out for fear of upsetting Moscow. But the danger from inaction is growing because a spy from the KGB’s most-secret department has just been posted to London. His name is Oleg Lyalin and he’s on a mission to take down Britain’s nuclear defences.


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The Spy Who Inspired 007 | The other James Bonds | 519 Mar 202400:21:12

Charlotte Philby interviews Andrew Lycett, the biographer of Ian Fleming, about the other real life spies that inspired his most famous character: James Bond - including the flamboyant Biffy Dunderdale, the urbane Sir Peter Smithers and even Ian Fleming’s own escapades. But who is the most James Bond of all? 


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The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Retribution | 411 Mar 202400:40:04

British intelligence is out to fool the Nazis into thinking the Allies invasion will start anywhere but Normandy. But to make Operation Fortitude’s lies stick, they need an agent who can sell the fiction to the Abwehr under interrogation and only one man has the chutzpah for that: Duško Popov.


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The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Back in the Game | 305 Mar 202400:35:30

After a bust-up with the FBI over Pearl Harbor, Duško Popov finds himself at a crossroads. Does he seek a Hollywood ending with his movie star girlfriend or risk death by returning to Lisbon to win back the trust of his Nazi spymasters?


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The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Warning Signs | 227 Feb 202400:35:44

MI6 double agent Duško Popov is heading to America, armed with evidence of Japan’s keen interest in the US Pearl Harbor naval base. But he's about to discover that the biggest threat to his mission are the very people he’s here to help: the FBI.


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The Spy Who Inspired 007 | A Friend Among Foes | 127 Feb 202400:35:04

It’s 1940 and Serbian playboy Duško Popov hopes to sit out World War Two in Belgrade. But when his best friend, Johnny Jebsen shows up at his door to call in an old debt, Popov finds himself sucked into the wartime spy game – as an agent for both Nazi Germany and Britain’s MI6.


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Introducing... The Spy Who14 Feb 202400:01:38

These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.


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The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Unpacking the mind of a spy legend | 506 Aug 202400:38:37

Few spies have motives as hard to decipher as those of Oleg Penkovsky. Was he a hero, an egotist or a madman? The Spy Who's Tristan Donovan sits down with Jack Basu-Mellish, host of the LSE Cold War Podcast, to discuss Penkovsky’s actions, plus the lessons to learn from the events of the Cold War. Can the history books really be trusted?


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The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Code Nuclear | 430 Jul 202400:41:02

It’s 1962 and Oleg Penkovsky has gone to ground after spotting a KGB surveillance team tracking his MI6 contact Janet Chisholm. But when the British Embassy in Moscow invites him to a cocktail party, he sees a chance to reconnect with Western intelligence.


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The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Manoeuvres in Moscow | 323 Jul 202400:43:02

Oleg Penkovsky is back in the USSR, ready to feed Soviet secrets to his new MI6 contact: a pram-pushing mother of three. But with the Berlin Crisis about to boil over, his intel could be the difference between war and peace. But with the KGB lurking everywhere smuggling these secrets out of Moscow will demand nerves of steel.


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The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Hero or Madman? | 216 Jul 202400:39:33

After months of missed opportunities, the CIA and MI6 are about to meet Penkovsky. But with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev squaring up to the US President John F. Kennedy over West Berlin, his information could have thermonuclear consequences.


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The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | The Stranger In Red Square | 109 Jul 202400:42:11

It’s 1960. The world hangs on the brink of nuclear war. But in Moscow, a man’s about to emerge from the shadows with an offer for the CIA. His name is Oleg Penkovsky and he wants to supply the US with the Soviet Union’s greatest nuclear secrets. But is he for real or part of an elaborate trap?


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Aimen Dean talks about his time as MI6's Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda | 501 Jul 202400:46:30

Aimen Dean talks Raza Jaffrey through the highs and lows of his eight years as an undercover agent and why he chose to spy for the British rather than the Americans.

He also describes how he felt after his cover was blown when an American writer disclosed his identity with details that could only be sourced to Dean; and what his life has been like since.

And Raza gets his chance to find whether the spy movies and TV series he's been involved in have anything to do with real life.


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Death Sentence | 424 Jun 202400:39:56

Aimen Dean is now on a mission to thwart a deadly plot to release poison gas on the New York Subway. But when his British spymasters decide to alert the U.S. to the threat, Dean’s deception begins to unravel.


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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Threats From All Sides | 403 Sep 202400:35:48

With IRA hardliners losing ground and Sinn Féin on the up, Willie Carlin’s feeling confident about his spying. But loose talk is about to put him on a kill list.


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The Spy Who Started the Cold War | Enemy Alien | 117 Sep 202400:41:41

It’s the 1940s. Robert Oppenheimer is creating plans for the first atomic bomb. And his colleague is stealing them. Klaus Fuchs is a traitor in Oppenheimer's ranks. A German-born physicist secretly working for the Soviet Union. Oppenheimer will change the world with science; Fuchs with espionage.

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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Thatcher's favourite | 510 Sep 202400:40:01

Why was Carlin considered Thatcher's favourite spy? What difference did he really make? And how did he cope when he became an exile?

To find out more about Carlin's life and significance, Charlie Higson is joined by Aaron Edwards, the author of 'Agents of Influence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA'.

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The Spy Who Started the Cold War | Los Alamos | 224 Sep 202400:41:24

Fuchs’ plan to feed secrets to the Soviets is in jeopardy. The atomic bomb project is closely guarded. That means little contact with the outside world, especially his handlers.

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The Spy Who Started the Cold War | Fallout | 301 Oct 202400:38:28

Klaus Fuchs is sure his espionage has gone undetected. So when authorities unearth a similar spy ring in Canada’s nuclear project, Fuchs doesn’t consider that he could be next.

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The Spy Who Started the Cold War | Lost Control | 408 Oct 202400:42:34

MI5 is closing in on Klaus Fuchs. But they can't seem to catch him in the act of spying. There’s only one option. They need a confession.

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The Spy Who Started the Cold War | The Most Dangerous In History? | 515 Oct 202400:32:02

Why did Fuchs take such a huge gamble by sharing US nuclear secrets with the Soviets? Was Oppenheimer's fellow physicist seeking peace - or war? Charlie Higson talks to Frank Close, an author and physicist, about Fuchs' decision and its impact on the course of history.

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The Spy Who Putin Poisoned | End of an Era | 122 Oct 202400:38:49

When the USSR falls apart, GRU officer Sergei Skripal finds himself adrift in the new Russia, having never asked for the country's new democracy. So when he meets a shadowy wine dealer, he leaps at the chance to make some money, without a clue how the deal would lead him to Salisbury.

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The Spy Who Putin Poisoned | The Exchange | 229 Oct 202400:33:50

Sergei Skripal is easing into retirement with a side hustle as a MI6 agent, and enjoying the Spanish seaside. Meanwhile, the KGB’s successor, the FSB, is on the hunt for traitors after a tip-off from a mole inside Spain’s intelligence service.

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The Spy Who Putin Poisoned | Always a Spy | 305 Nov 202400:29:46

In a top-secret Russian laboratory, a terrifying chemical weapon called Novichok is about to be hauled out of storage, and will soon reach the streets of British city Salisbury.

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The Spy Who Putin Poisoned | Uncovering The Truth With Bellingcat | 519 Nov 202400:33:18

In a groundbreaking investigation into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, journalism group Bellingcat exposed previously unknown details of the Salisbury Poisonings that blew the case wide open. Journalist and Bellingcat founder Elliot Higgins and host Charlie Higson explore where the responsibility to protect covert operations ends and the public's right to be informed begins.

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The Spy Who Putin Poisoned | Bear Traps | 412 Nov 202400:38:34

As hospital medics battle to save the first victims of the Salisbury poisonings, police hunt the perpetrators. And while they're searching, the spy war between Russia and the West heats up, with an eventful call between Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump.

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The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Independence Day | 126 Nov 202400:44:54

When MI6 sends officer Daphne Park to help stop a communist takeover in Congo, it kickstarts one of the darkest operations in MI6 and CIA history. Because security services either need to win the trust of Congo’s first prime minister, or remove him.

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The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Heart of Darkness | 203 Dec 202400:40:14

Newly independent Congo is spiralling into disorder. Disorder the Communists could be quick to exploit. MI6 officer Daphne Park needs to act, and fast.

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The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Cold Jungle | 310 Dec 202400:48:07

While Patrice Lumumba battles to control his country, MI6 officer Daphne Park and CIA officer Larry Devlin are secretly battling to stop him turning to the Soviets for help.

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The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | One Gold Tooth | 417 Dec 202400:41:41

New Prime Minister Joseph Mobutu’s grip on power is shaky. It’s Patrice Lumumba who has the people’s support. So the CIA and MI6 start plotting to oust him using any means necessary.

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The Spy Who Gave London its Christmas Tree | 119 Dec 202400:34:40

Each Christmas, a giant tree lights up London’s Trafalgar Square. Behind the custom: 007 author Ian Fleming and a secret mission to Norway. This is the story of how wartime espionage gave Britain its most spectacular festive tradition.


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Holy War | 131 Dec 202400:40:44

It’s 1994 and 16-year-old Aimen Dean wants to die. He’s heading to war-torn Bosnia to join the Mujahideen and save fellow Muslims. He hopes to become a martyr so that he can be reunited with his dead parents in paradise. Instead, he’s about to be confronted by a bloody reality.


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The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Lumumba's Grandson on Legacy, Loss and the Weight of a Name | 524 Dec 202400:23:50

Amory Lumumba was born long after the 1961 assassination of his grandfather. Yet the impact continues to ripple through his family today. Actor and spy novelist Charlie Higson speaks with Amory about the heavy responsibility of carrying the Lumumba name, and the enduring, inspirational legacy that Patrice Lumumba left behind. Plus, Amory tells Charlie why he's convinced the United States were involved in the killing.

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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Aimen Dean talks about his time as MI6's Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda | 521 Jan 202500:46:21

Aimen Dean talks Raza Jaffrey through the highs and lows of his eight years as an undercover agent and why he chose to spy for the British rather than the Americans.


He also describes how he felt after his cover was blown when an American writer disclosed his identity with details that could only be sourced to Dean; and what his life has been like since.

And Raza gets his chance to find whether the spy movies and TV series he's been involved in have anything to do with real life.


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The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Death Sentence | 421 Jan 202500:40:07

A deadly plot threatens the New York Subway and Dean is on a mission to thwart it. But when his British spymasters decide to alert the U.S. to the threat, Dean’s deception begins to unravel.


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