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Welcome to true spies, brief histories.

Season two, spy cities.

Our cities are the arena in which the great game of espionage is played,

providing all manner of stage setting, from grand embassies to average-looking suburban homes.

In these bonus minisodes, we'll draw on the knowledge of our true spies' experts

to enhance your understanding of the secret forces that have always operated in the places

we call home.

The real culmination of his sort of UK integration strategy came a couple of days later when

he closed the deal to buy a tube station from the British government.

I'm Joe Foley, series producer for true spies.

And this is a brief history of London.

London, a city of 10 million people speaking more than 300 languages. It's a global hub of trade

and tourism, and despite what you might have heard,

the food's not bad either. But then again, I'm biased. The True Spies podcast might have a global

outlook, but for the most part, it's made right here. You can even visit the UK branch of the Spyscape

Museum and Experience in Covent Gardner. So it won't surprise you to learn that this city, my city, is no slouch when it comes to SpyCraft.

The fact is that it's had a lot of time to practice.

London has been England's capital, on and off, since it was first founded by the Romans in the first century CE.

And like any centre of power, intrigue and espionage

have always been baked into the brickwork. And speaking of masonry, you'll find some of London's best

at the Palace of Westminster, which has been here in some form or another for nearly a thousand years.

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