Did Furbys Spy on Us? 3. Eye-Spy
Joanne McNally Investigates
BBC
4.3 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Rocked by Gearoid’s suggestion that the Furby could have been adapted by secret organisations to be a real actual spy, Joanne travels to the north of England, and visits a shop which specialises in selling covert gadgets. She discovers that for a modest sum of money she can be the proud owner of multiple listening bugs...and while using them is a legal minefield – please do your own research to make sure you don’t fall foul of the law – she hears that that there are no shortage of customers.
Joanne even decides to hide a few around her own apartment, to see if she's really made for the covert world. But will Gearoid be able to spot them?
Elsewhere – Joanne is introduced to a real life member of MI6. And she finds out what life as a spy is really like, and gets to ask if a Furby might have been the perfect device for a spy to use.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Just to warn you, before you start listening, there will be swearing and some sexual language in this series, because I'm a sweary sexual kind of person. |
| 0:13.9 | I know what I am, I swear like a soldier, I'll try to keep it to a minimum, but just in case you've got very sensitive ears, you can't say I didn't flag it. |
| 0:24.2 | I've got a little air freshener here with a camera and a listening device in it, so I'm going to |
| 0:27.6 | pop that over here on my bedside table. And then I have the plug that I'm going to plug in. |
| 0:35.6 | What you're listening to here is a masterclass in covert surveillance. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, I will say hand on heart, if I was to walk into this flat, |
| 0:45.1 | I wouldn't have a clue that I was being listened to by three pretty intense devices |
| 0:48.9 | and there's about collectively 6,000 hours of potential listening in this flat. |
| 0:54.9 | But how did I get here? |
| 0:59.4 | This is a What's the Story Sounds production for BBC Sounds. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm Joanne McNally and this is Did Furby Spy on us? |
| 1:08.5 | Episode 3, I spy. |
| 1:13.5 | My investigation into the did Furby spy question |
| 1:16.6 | had been moving at breakneck speed. |
| 1:19.3 | At the end of the last episode, I thought I'd solved it. |
| 1:22.4 | It was nonsense. |
| 1:23.3 | Furby's don't spy. |
| 1:24.4 | They're too busy. |
| 1:25.4 | But then, Garuda called me up with the curveball suggestion |
| 1:28.3 | and he was, as always, annoyingly correct. |
| 1:32.0 | Maybe someone could have adapted the Furby for espionage purposes. |
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