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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Fly Fishing
Aug 27, 2024When Willie Carlin makes an alarming discovery in an IRA safe house, he must choose between preserving his cover or conscience. Listen to The Spy Who ad-free on Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Pod...
The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Threats From All Sides
Sep 03, 2024With IRA hardliners losing ground and Sinn Féin on the up, Willie Carlin’s feeling confident about his spying. But loose talk is about to put him on a kill list. Listen to The Spy Who ad-free on Wond...
The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Thatcher's favourite
Sep 10, 2024Why was Carlin considered Thatcher's favourite spy? What difference did he really make? And how did he cope when he became an exile? To find out more about Carlin's life and significance, Charlie Higs...
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | The Stranger In Red Square
Jul 09, 2024It’s 1960. The world hangs on the brink of nuclear war. But in Moscow, a man’s about to emerge from the shadows with an offer for the CIA. His name is Oleg Penkovsky and he wants to supply the US with...
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Hero or Madman?
Jul 16, 2024After months of missed opportunities, the CIA and MI6 are about to meet Penkovsky. But with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev squaring up to the US President John F. Kennedy over West Berlin, his infor...
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Manoeuvres in Moscow
Jul 23, 2024Oleg Penkovsky is back in the USSR, ready to feed Soviet secrets to his new MI6 contact: a pram-pushing mother of three. But with the Berlin Crisis about to boil over, his intel could be the differenc...
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Code Nuclear
Jul 30, 2024It’s 1962 and Oleg Penkovsky has gone to ground after spotting a KGB surveillance team tracking his MI6 contact Janet Chisholm. But when the British Embassy in Moscow invites him to a cocktail party, ...
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Unpacking the mind of a spy legend
Aug 06, 2024Few spies have motives as hard to decipher as those of Oleg Penkovsky. Was he a hero, an egotist or a madman? The Spy Who's Tristan Donovan sits down with Jack Basu-Mellish, host of the LSE Cold War P...
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Holy War
Jun 03, 2024It’s 1994 and 16-year-old Aimen Dean wants to die. He’s heading to war-torn Bosnia to join the Mujahideen and save fellow Muslims. He hopes to become a martyr so that he can be reunited with his dead ...
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Londonistan
Jun 10, 2024Aimen Dean is trapped. He wants out of al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but no one gets to leave the jihadi training camps without permission. So when a missile strike hands him the perfect excuse to leave h...