Podcast Episodes

Encore: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | A Friend Among Foes

Season 18 Episode 1

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 i…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | How the Cambridge Five Changed MI5

Season 17 Episode 5

Why was the Cambridge Five scandal so embarrasing to MI5? And how significant was Oleg Lyalin's success in restoring faith in British Intelligence? Tristan Donovan discusses the notorious spy-ring an…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | The Dominoes Fall

Season 17 Episode 4

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 t…

Published on 5 months ago

Listen Now: 7/7: The Inside Story

Aimen Dean, aka, The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden has just launched a new series: 7/7: The Inside Story on Wondery+. You can hear a sneak peek here.

On July 7th 2005, four bombs ripped through the maze…

Published on 5 months ago

The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | No Return

Season 17 Episode 3

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…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | The Pressure Cooker

Season 17 Episode 2

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 investiga…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | The Spider and the Fly

Season 17 Episode 1

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 gro…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Spy Who Ran Mossad’s Fake Hotel | Gad Shimron on his Double Life as a Windsurfing Coach

Season 16 Episode 4

Ex-Mossad agent Gad Shimron spent three years at the Arous Diving Resort, in war-torn Sudan. He was hotel staff by day, taking guests out for sailing trips and windsurfing lessons. But by night, he w…

Published on 6 months ago

The Spy Who Ran Mossad’s Fake Hotel | The Return

Season 16 Episode 3

Dani Limor is being held at gunpoint. His next words will either save Operation Brothers and thousands of lives – or get him killed.

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Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Spy Who Ran Mossad’s Fake Hotel | Sun, Sand and Spies

Season 16 Episode 2

With thousands of Ethiopian Jews stuck in Sudan’s refugee camps, Israeli spy Dani Limor hits on a plan to take Mossad into the tourist trade.

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Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago