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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.

137 episodes

The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | The First Casualty | 3 29 Sept 2026 · 40 min The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi is underway. David Tyson is trapped with no way out and al-Qaeda moving in. And if help doesn’t arrive soon, America’s first victory in Afghanistan will…

Listen Now: My Mom’s Murder 28 Sept 2026 · 5 min Lauren Malloy was a baby when her mother, Lori, was murdered in East Providence, Rhode Island. For thirty years, no one told her. Everyone said Lori died of natural causes. Then a…

The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | Afghan Math | 2 22 Sept 2026 · 37 min CIA Team Alpha and the forces of Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum are closing in on the crucial city of Mazar-i-Sharif. But what will it take to convince the Taliban and its all…

The Spy Who Rode with Warlords | Graveyard of Empires | 1 15 Sept 2026 · 46 min In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. is preparing to invade Afghanistan. It wants to overthrow the Taliban so it can locate Osama bin Laden and eliminate al-Qa…

The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | A US Military Interrogator on Getting Terrorists to Talk | 4 8 Sept 2026 · 39 min Tony Camerino is Ali Soufan's former colleague at the Soufan Group. A combat veteran and Special Agent, Tony conducted and supervised over 1300 interrogations during the Iraq War…

The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | Enhanced Interrogation | 3 1 Sept 2026 · 39 min At a CIA black site, FBI agent Ali Soufan is questioning the first high-value terrorist captured by the US since 9/11. But with the detainee’s wounds going septic and the CIA’s pa…

The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | Death Is Not An Option | 2 25 Aug 2026 · 43 min In Yemen, FBI counter-terrorism agent Ali Soufan is trying to uncover who bombed the U.S. destroyer USS Cole. Now he’s got a suspect who could blow the case wide open: al-Qaeda op…

The Spy Who Almost Stopped 9/11 | The Looming Enemy | 1 18 Aug 2026 · 42 min Ali Soufan is a rookie FBI agent convinced that an almost unknown terror group called al-Qaeda, and its leader Osama Bin Laden, are a threat to America. When the naval destroyer U…

The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | Playdates And A Glock: The Life of a Mom and Spy | 4 11 Aug 2026 · 39 min As we say goodbye to our series on Ursula Kuczynski (‘Agent Sonya’), we also say goodbye to a singular and formidable agent, who navigated the high-wire act of balancing life as a…

The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | Eastbound From The Cotswolds | 3 4 Aug 2026 · 41 min With the Nazis in retreat, the U.S. hopes to get spies on the ground in Berlin before the Soviets take the city. But Ursula Kuczynski has different plans. She’s going to co-opt th…

The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | Traitor In The Home | 2 28 Jul 2026 · 46 min With her operation in Japanese-occupied Manchuria now over, Ursula Kuczynski is awaiting fresh orders from Moscow. But the Centre’s new instructions are about to break her heart.…

The Spy Who Became Stalin's Greatest | A Bomb In The Pram | 1 21 Jul 2026 · 42 min To her fellow Westerners in colonial Shanghai, Ursula Kuczynski is just another devoted housewife and mother. But beneath the bourgeois exterior, she’s a vital cog in the communis…

The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Mystery of Agent 355 | 5 14 Jul 2026 · 34 min Right on schedule for America's 250th birthday, we’ve wrapped our arc on Benedict Arnold - the American military officer who turned his back on his own country to spy for the Brit…

The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Hangman’s Noose | 4 7 Jul 2026 · 46 min With his plot to hand West Point to the British unravelling fast, Benedict Arnold is running for his life. And if George Washington’s men can’t stop him in time, Benjamin Tallmadg…

The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Traitor and The Gentleman | 3 2 Jul 2026 · 38 min With the French now helping the U.S. in its fight for independence, the tide’s turned against Britain. But disillusioned American hero Benedict Arnold is about to help the British…

The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | The Road to Betrayal | 2 30 Jun 2026 · 38 min With the British advancing on Philadelphia, the American rebels face defeat. But new U.S. intelligence officer Benjamin Tallmadge is about to hit on a plan that’ll give the Contin…

The Spy Who Betrayed the American Revolution | Liberty and the Pursuit of Intelligence | 1 23 Jun 2026 · 41 min It’s 1775 and after years of rising tensions, rebellion is about to break out in British North America. The 13 rebel colonies want to shake off rule from London and form a new nat…

The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | What really goes on in the mind of a secret agent? | 4 16 Jun 2026 · 37 min What do you think of when someone mentions the word: spy? Thanks to James Bond, they're often thought of as sleek, sexy and thrill-seeking. But what really goes on in the mind of…

The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | Blue Eyes | 3 9 Jun 2026 · 38 min It’s the mid-1980s and the Czechoslovak spy living posing as Erwin van Haarlem has spent years convincing the mother of the real Erwin that he is her long-lost son. Now his decept…

The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | The Prodigal Son | 2 2 Jun 2026 · 41 min After years of preparation, Czech deep-cover spy Václav Jelínek is in London and living as Erwin Van Haarlem. But now, the Dutch mother of the real child whose identity he’s using…

The Czech Spy Who Stole a Son | The Kidnap | 1 26 May 2026 · 38 min When a teenager is made to give up her baby, Czechoslovak secret police service the StB spot a chance to create a rock-solid fake identity for one of its deep-cover 'illegal' spie…

The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | How a CIA Spy Recruiter Helped Stop Dr Strangelove | 4 19 May 2026 · 40 min Not many people can say they helped dismantle the most dangerous nuclear weapons network in history. Then again, not everyone is former CIA operative, Jim Lawler. Jim speaks to Ra…

The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | Cargo of Doom | 3 12 May 2026 · 38 min With A.Q. Khan now fully rogue and his network working to fast-track Libya’s nuclear weapons program, the CIA and MI6 need to find a way to shut his network down permanently. See…

The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | Bombs for Sale | 2 5 May 2026 · 37 min Dr. A.Q. Khan is making millions selling nuclear secrets but when he decides to sell the nuclear bomb to Libya’s renegade ruler Colonel Gaddafi, the CIA and MI6 realise they need…

The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | The Seeds of Revenge | 1 28 Apr 2026 · 38 min At a secure lab in Amsterdam, scientists are working on tech that can enrich uranium for nuclear bombs. But when India tests a nuke, employee Dr. A.Q. Khan, turns spy to help Paki…

The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Murdered, Then Forgotten | 4 21 Apr 2026 · 39 min How did someone so essential in war become so expendable in peace? In conversation with Charlie Higson, historian Clare Mulley explores the extraordinary life of Krystyna Skarbek…

The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Rescue from execution | 3 14 Apr 2026 · 38 min Frozen out by the Special Operations Executive, Polish countess turned British spy Krystyna Skarbek is now stuck in the Middle East. But she’s determined to get back into the figh…

The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Don’t stop running | 2 7 Apr 2026 · 36 min As the Nazis exert control over Continental Europe, British spy Krystyna Skarbek needs to stay one step ahead of the enemy. But she’s about to discover that the Axis powers aren’t…

The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Evening Star | 1 31 Mar 2026 · 39 min When Hitler invades her beloved homeland, Poland, Countess Krystyna Skarbek signs up to go behind enemy lines as Britain’s first female undercover agent. She outwits the Nazis aga…

The Spy Who Outplayed Nixon | The Rise of China’s Intelligence Machine | 4 24 Mar 2026 · 37 min How did one CIA mole tip the scales of power between two superpowers? Investigative journalist Bethany Allen exposes the hidden world of Chinese espionage operations in America -…