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Spy Cities: Geneva
Season 2 Episode 1
Geneva: The Early Days of Spy Fiction.
Somerset Maugham, the 20th century British writer, drew on his First World War experiences as a British agent …
9 hours ago
Spy Cities: Season Two Trailer
Season 2
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2 weeks ago
Spy Cities: Season Mid-break Q&A
Season 1 Episode 13
We caught up with hosts Angus and Hove after they'd visited a dead drop location during the season break. They produced a sheet of questions from our…
4 weeks ago
Spy Cities: Prague
Season 1 Episode 12
PRAGUE: CARLOS THE JACKAL AND THE COLD WAR SECRET POLICE
In Cold War Prague, capital of communist Czechoslovakia, sanctuary was offered to Carlos the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Spy Cities: Shanghai
Season 1 Episode 11
SHANGHAI: SPIES, SORGE AND THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY UNDERWORLD
Step back into the espionage underworld of 1920s and 30s Shanghai, one of the most dangero…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Spy Cities: The Hague and Haarlem
Season 1 Episode 10
NETHERLANDS: THE DUTCH RESISTANCE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST THE NAZIS
Stand on the beach where a real James Bond-style landing took place — dinner jacket wo…
2 months ago
Spy Cities: The Hague and Venlo
Season 1 Episode 9
THE HAGUE & VENLO: BRITAIN’S GREATEST INTELLIGENCE DISASTER?
The 1939 Venlo Incident - the Gestapo’s kidnapping of two British MI6 officers on the Dut…
2 months, 1 week ago
Spy Cities: Tangier
Season 1 Episode 8
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 o…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Spy Cities: Gibraltar
Season 1 Episode 7
GIBRALTAR: SPIES ON THE ROCK
Guarding the Strait of Gibraltar — the all-important sea lane linking the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean — this tiny…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Spy Cities: London Part Two
Season 1 Episode 6
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 …
2 months, 4 weeks ago