Podcast · 66 episodes
The Spy Who
by Audible · English
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, Raza Jaffrey and Emilia Fox, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of The Spy Who ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
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The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | The First Casualty | 3Episode 3 (“The First Casualty”) follows the aftermath of a prison uprising at Kalijangi fortress in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan (Nov 25–27, 2001), involving CIA Team Alpha, Northern Alliance warlord…29 Sep 2026 · 40 min
Listen Now: My Mom’s MurderLauren Lee Malloy recounts how she learned her mother, Lori Lee Malloy, was not believed to have died of heart disease/hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but was allegedly murdered.28 Sep 2026 · 5 min
The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | Afghan Math | 2CIA Team Alpha and Northern Alliance forces push the Taliban out of northern Afghanistan, take Mazar-e-Sharif, then face a deadly “Trojan horse” uprising when Taliban-delivered al-Qaeda prisoners…22 Sep 2026 · 37 min
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The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | The First Casualty | 3Episode 3 (“The First Casualty”) follows the aftermath of a prison uprising at Kalijangi fortress in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan (Nov 25–27, 2001), involving CIA Team Alpha, Northern Alliance warlord…29 Sep 2026 · 40 min · 21 chapters
Listen Now: My Mom’s MurderLauren Lee Malloy recounts how she learned her mother, Lori Lee Malloy, was not believed to have died of heart disease/hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but was allegedly murdered.28 Sep 2026 · 5 min · 2 chapters
The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | Afghan Math | 2CIA Team Alpha and Northern Alliance forces push the Taliban out of northern Afghanistan, take Mazar-e-Sharif, then face a deadly “Trojan horse” uprising when Taliban-delivered al-Qaeda prisoners…22 Sep 2026 · 37 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | Graveyard of Empires | 1Episode 1 of The Spy Who, “The Graveyard of Empires,” follows CIA officer David Tyson and CIA Team Alpha as they help launch the post-9/11 covert push into northern Afghanistan—seeking to overthrow…15 Sep 2026 · 46 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | A US Military Interrogator on Getting Terrorists to Talk | 4Tony Camarino, a former US Air Force OSI interrogator, discusses how rapport-based, culturally informed interrogation helped dismantle al-Qaeda in Iraq, and argues coercive/violent methods are…8 Sep 2026 · 39 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | Enhanced Interrogation | 3CIA and FBI rivalry over interrogating Abu Zubaydah in Thailand (2002), including “enhanced interrogation” (forced nudity, loud music, sleep deprivation, mock burial/coffin) versus rapport-based…1 Sep 2026 · 39 min · 15 chapters
The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | Death Is Not An Option | 2This episode follows FBI agent Ali Soufan as he interrogates USS Cole suspect Fahad al-Qasr in Yemen and connects that plot to the 9/11 attacks.25 Aug 2026 · 43 min · 14 chapters
Listen Now: Audible True CrimeThe episode examines self-help guru James Arthur Ray and the Harmonic Wealth Weekend and Spiritual Warrior retreats, focusing on how his “law of attraction” teachings and high-pressure methods pushed…24 Aug 2026 · 6 min · 3 chapters
The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | The Looming Enemy | 1Ali Sufan, an FBI counterterrorism agent, tracks al-Qaeda’s leadership and operatives in the years leading up to 9/11, starting with bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa/interview, then linking the 1998 embassy…18 Aug 2026 · 42 min · 12 chapters
The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | Playdates And A Glock: The Life of a Mom and Spy | 4Anne E. Butler, a former CIA undercover case officer and mother, discusses her memoir Wife, Mother, Spy and how she balanced clandestine work with raising five children, including using family cover,…11 Aug 2026 · 39 min · 19 chapters
The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | Eastbound From The Cotswolds | 3How Ursula Kuczynski (“Sonia”), a German communist turned Soviet spy, helped infiltrate Allied intelligence during WWII, including the OSS’s secret radio system, then later tried to re-establish…4 Aug 2026 · 41 min · 15 chapters
The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | Traitor In The Home | 2Episode 2 follows Ursula Kaczynski’s Soviet espionage after her affair ends and she’s redeployed.28 Jul 2026 · 46 min · 16 chapters
Listen Now: I Am Not NicholasJournalist Jane MacSorley recounts her long investigation into a man arrested in a Glasgow COVID ward in January 2022, whom police claimed was fugitive Nicholas Rossi wanted for rape in Utah, but who…21 Jul 2026 · 5 min · 3 chapters
The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | A Bomb In The Pram | 1Soviet spy Ursula Kuczynski (Agent Sonia) builds radio links and helps Chinese communists sabotage Japanese forces in Manchuria, culminating in bomb-making using a pram and ammonium nitrate, while…21 Jul 2026 · 42 min · 13 chapters
Listen Now: Dan Taberski’s ManifestoDan Taberski’s six-part series about manifestos—how they channel rage into action, their power and danger, and whether people can get “inspired again” without violence.14 Jul 2026 · 8 min · 2 chapters
The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Mystery of Agent 355 | 5Final episode of The Spy Who about Benedict Arnold’s betrayal and the Revolutionary War Culper spy ring, focusing on the unsolved identity of “Agent 355,” a female spy code-named “lady” who allegedly…14 Jul 2026 · 34 min · 15 chapters
The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Hangman’s Noose | 4George Washington discovers Benedict Arnold’s betrayal via captured spy documents; the episode follows Arnold’s escape to the British, John André’s execution, and the resulting spy-counterspy…7 Jul 2026 · 46 min · 20 chapters
The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Traitor and The Gentleman | 3In May 1779, British intelligence chief Major John André recruits Joseph Stansbury, a loyalist Philadelphia merchant, to pass letters from Peggy Shippen (now Peggy Arnold) about Benedict Arnold’s…2 Jul 2026 · 38 min · 12 chapters
The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Road to Betrayal | 2The Road to Betrayal follows Benedict Arnold’s slide from Revolutionary hero to suspected traitor, while the Culper spy ring gathers intelligence for Washington; it also shows Peggy Shippen’s growing…30 Jun 2026 · 38 min · 11 chapters
The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | Liberty and the Pursuit of Intelligence | 1The episode dramatizes early Revolutionary War intelligence work, focusing on how Benedict Arnold’s rise as a rebel leader and Nathan Hale’s mission as a spy shape the Patriots’ ability to fight the…23 Jun 2026 · 41 min · 14 chapters
Listen Now: Foul PlayInvestigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse and Ed Jervis explore whether CIA agents poisoned Ed’s grandad, football goalkeeper Gordon Banks, in 1970, and whether a “curse” followed England’s men’s…16 Jun 2026 · 7 min · 2 chapters
The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | What really goes on in the mind of a secret agent? | 4The episode uses Václav Jelinek’s deep-cover case to explore how spies live lies, cope psychologically, and get recruited.16 Jun 2026 · 37 min · 18 chapters
The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | Blue Eyes | 3In 1987-88, Czech deep-cover agent Václav Jelinek, posing as “Erwin van Haarlem,” is tailed by MI5, tries to signal Prague for a new escape passport, and is arrested after Special Branch raids his…9 Jun 2026 · 38 min · 11 chapters
The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | The Prodigal Son | 2Václav Jelinek (as “Erwin van Haarlem”) reunites with his biological mother Johanna van Haarlem in London, then uses her connection to infiltrate the UK Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry (“the 35s”)…2 Jun 2026 · 41 min · 11 chapters