Podcast · 66 episodes
The Spy Who, page 2
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.
All episodes, page 2
The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | The Kidnap | 1STB secret police operation in communist Czechoslovakia to kidnap and control a woman’s search for her adopted son, whose identity is actually a long-term spy cover.26 May 2026 · 38 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | How a CIA Spy Recruiter Helped Stop Dr Strangelove | 4Jim Lawler, a former CIA case officer and recruiter, explains how CIA tradecraft and recruiting inside proliferation networks helped stop A.Q.19 May 2026 · 40 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | Cargo of Doom | 3IAEA inspectors discover Iran’s Natanz uranium-enrichment facility is far more advanced than expected, with centrifuge designs linked to Pakistan’s Urenko model and allegedly to Dr. A.Q. Khan.12 May 2026 · 38 min · 15 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | Bombs for Sale | 2A.Q. Khan’s nuclear-smuggling network expands from selling parts to offering complete enrichment/warhead capability to Libya, while MI6 and the CIA recruit an insider to copy and sabotage Khan’s…5 May 2026 · 37 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | The Seeds of Revenge | 1Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist at Urenco (FDO) in Amsterdam, steals ultra-centrifuge designs and funnels uranium-enrichment know-how to Pakistan, then expands the network to Iran.28 Apr 2026 · 38 min · 15 chapters
The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Murdered, Then Forgotten | 4The life, wartime achievements, and post-war erasure of Polish Countess Christina Skarbek (aka Christine Granville), who became Britain’s first female special agent in WWII and later was murdered in…21 Apr 2026 · 39 min · 19 chapters
The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Rescue from execution | 3Christina Skarbek (SOE) returns to active duty in France, helps sabotage German forces via Polish conscripts, and executes a high-risk rescue of Major Francis Camard from Gestapo execution.14 Apr 2026 · 38 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Don’t stop running | 2Kristina Skarbek’s escape from Slovak guards, her continued courier work for British intelligence, and the fallout from Polish resistance suspicions, culminating in a microfilm warning about a German…7 Apr 2026 · 36 min · 12 chapters
The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Evening Star | 1The life-and-missions of Christina Skarbek (Christine Granville), a Polish countess and the first daring female WWII spy for Britain, whose actions helped inspire Vesper Lynd in Ian Fleming’s Casino…31 Mar 2026 · 39 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Outplayed Nixon | The Rise of China’s Intelligence Machine | 4Chinese intelligence’s long-term expansion, centered on “Larry Chin” (a high-placed mole) and how it enabled U.S.-China rapprochement, then evolved after 1989 into large-scale global operations…24 Mar 2026 · 37 min · 19 chapters
The Spy Who Outplayed Nixon | The Gamble | 3CIA and FBI counterintelligence track a long-running Chinese spy, Larry Chin, after a failed flight-date lead; the case culminates in Chin’s confession, conviction, and death in custody, and in the…17 Mar 2026 · 37 min · 18 chapters
The Spy Who Outplayed Nixon | A gift for Mr. Lee | 2Larry Chin, a CIA/FBIS translator and long-time Chinese spy, passes a polygraph, steals Nixon’s China outreach plan, and helps China secure major concessions in the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué; later,…10 Mar 2026 · 38 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Outplayed Nixon | Forked Tongue | 1The episode “The Spy Who Outplayed Nixon” (Forked Tongue, Episode 1) follows Larry Wu Taichin (“Qin”), a Chinese communist spy who infiltrates US intelligence and later becomes crucial to US-China…3 Mar 2026 · 41 min · 11 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Codes and Cocaine | How to Free the FBI's Most Wanted | 4Lawyer-author Kate Mills Boyce recounts how she fought for parole and sentence corrections for Andrew “Dalton” Lee and later Christopher Boyce, after their youth-driven espionage case and…24 Feb 2026 · 40 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Codes and Cocaine | Prison Break | 3Episode 3 (“Prison Break”) follows Dalton Lee, a KGB courier in Mexico City, and Christopher Boyce, his KGB handler-turned-spy satellite thief.17 Feb 2026 · 39 min · 16 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Codes and Cocaine | The Party Line | 2Dalton Lee and Christopher Boyce’s KGB spy operation deepens after Boyce uses a Meenox camera to send coded satellite information; the Soviets demand NSA frequency codes, then pressure Boyce and Lee…10 Feb 2026 · 40 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Sold Codes and Cocaine | The Black Vault | 1In 1974-1975, Christopher Boyce and Dalton Lee, both young Americans working around CIA spy-satellite encryption, sell U.S.3 Feb 2026 · 46 min · 18 chapters
The Spy Who Jailed the Omagh Bomb Plotter | Inside Britain's Vast Espionage Network | 4The episode examines MI5’s use of an IRA double agent nicknamed “Steakknife” (widely believed to be Freddy Scappaticci) and the 2025 Kennevar/Canova-style findings about how British handlers…27 Jan 2026 · 37 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Jailed the Omagh Bomb Plotter | The Reaping | 3FBI/MI5 spy David Rupert’s infiltration of the Real IRA and the chain of evidence that leads to the conviction of Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt for directing terrorism connected to the Omagh…20 Jan 2026 · 43 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Jailed the Omagh Bomb Plotter | Blowing up the peace | 2After the Good Friday Agreement, hardline Republicans reject peace and continue attacks.13 Jan 2026 · 46 min · 20 chapters
The Spy Who Jailed the Omagh Bomb Plotter | Friend, Foe or Fortune Hunter? | 1A dramatized account of how an American-turned-FBI informant, David Rupert, becomes a spy for both the FBI and later MI5, helping stop hardline dissident Irish Republican attacks after the Good…6 Jan 2026 · 40 min · 11 chapters
ENCORE - The Spy Who (UK) | The Spy Who Gave London its Christmas Tree | 1This episode dramatizes how a WWII covert Norwegian mission helped spark Norway’s annual Christmas tree gift to Britain.23 Dec 2025 · 35 min · 9 chapters
The Spy Who Outran the KGB | Before Gordievsky, and the Secret War Inside Britain - with Author Tim Tate | 4Cold War espionage “before Gordievsky”—why the USSR targeted Britain, how Soviet penetration reached British institutions, and what Peter Wright’s findings implied about moles and failures; then how…16 Dec 2025 · 37 min · 15 chapters
The Spy Who Outran the KGB | The Chase | 3Oleg Gordievsky’s growing KGB suspicion and his MI6-led escape from Moscow to Finland in 1985, including the “Operation Pimlico” brush-pass failure and the later bakery signal that triggers…9 Dec 2025 · 42 min · 18 chapters