Podcast Episodes

How To Protect Your Secrets: Inside China’s Technical Surveillance Playbook (Ep 1)

Season 1 Episode 112

The world of surveillance has changed beyond recognition over the past 25 years with the advent of technology. From CCTV cameras to cookie tracking, it's not so easy to escape the long arm of the int…

Published on 11 hours ago

The Man Behind The CIA: Shooting In The White House (Ep 2)

Season 1 Episode 111

Bill Donovan has set himself up across an entire floor of the swanky London hotel, Claridge’s. From here he is now running international intelligence operations and laying plans for the future of esp…

Published on 5 days, 11 hours ago

The Man Behind The CIA: Charming Mussolini and Stealing From MI6 (Ep 1)

Season 1 Episode 110

“Wild” Bill Donovan laid the template for the formation of the modern CIA, but this wasn’t the way his life was supposed to turn out. A working class boy from Buffalo, Bill dreamt of something better…

Published on 1 week ago

Hunting Al-Qaeda: The CIA’s Deadliest Day (Ep 4)

Season 1 Episode 109

Nine people dead. A severed head laying motionless in the rubble. Silence punctuated by screams. The moments after the 2009 Camp Chapman attack sound like something out of a horror film, but this was…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Hunting Al-Qaeda: From Jihadist To Spy (Ep 3)

Season 1 Episode 108

Jennifer Matthews was one of the most capable and formidable CIA analysts working in the Counter Terrorism Centre during the War on Terror. She was also underestimated by her male colleagues who doub…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Introducing: The Rest Is Science

Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending new show from Goalhanger that tears down familiar ideas… time, randomness, beauty, it will reveal just how bizarre …

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Hunting Al-Qaeda: The War On Terror (Ep 2)

Season 1 Episode 107

In the years following 9/11, the US launched the War on Terror to root out the most dangerous Al Qaeda operatives across the Middle East. Their determination to avenge those who lost their lives in t…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Hunting Al-Qaeda: Anatomy Of A Terrorist (Ep 1)

Season 1 Episode 106

On 30 December 2009, an Al Qaeda terrorist detonated a bomb inside a CIA station in Afghanistan. This is the story of how a quiet doctor from Jordan became responsible for one of the deadliest days i…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The Chinese Spy Scandal: Mastering LinkedIn (Ep 2)

Season 1 Episode 105

In 2017, former CIA officer Kevin Mallory was drowning in debt when a message landed in his LinkedIn inbox. A Chinese “headhunter” said he had consulting work. Mallory - fluent in Mandarin, seasoned …

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

The Chinese Spy Scandal: Breaching Westminster (Ep 1)

Season 1 Episode 104

Earlier this month, MI5 issued a stark warning to Westminster: a “covert and calculated” Chinese espionage campaign was targeting parliament - and doing so at an industrial scale. Not with trench-coa…

Published on 4 weeks ago