Introducing... The Spy Who
The Spy Who
Wondery
4.6 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
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 and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.
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| 0:00.0 | Beneath the veneer of the everyday lurks the realm of the spy. |
| 0:08.2 | It's a dank, murky world full of dark corners, sinister motives and corroded morals, |
| 0:15.0 | a place of paranoia and infiltration, sabotage and manipulation. |
| 0:23.5 | From wondering, I'm Indravama. |
| 0:25.3 | And I'm Raza Jaffrey. |
| 0:32.8 | This is The Spy Who, a show that takes you inside the twilight realm of espionage. |
| 0:41.3 | These are true stories you were never meant to hear, with secret operatives playing to very different rules. We'll reveal the invisible work of the world's intelligence services, unearthing daring missions packed with danger, deceit and double crosses. |
| 0:53.3 | The Spy Who introduces you to the shadowy figures |
| 0:58.0 | who risked everything to achieve their mission. |
| 1:00.0 | Sometimes in service of the national interest, |
| 1:03.0 | sometimes in the services of much more personal goals. |
| 1:09.0 | Like Oleg Lelen, the spy who sabotaged the KGB, or Dushko Popov, the spy who inspired |
| 1:16.6 | 007, even Noor Inayat Khan, the spy who was a princess. |
| 1:23.7 | Follow the Spy Who on the Wondery app, or wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can binge seasons of the Spy Who on the Wondery app or wherever you listen to podcasts |
| 1:27.7 | or you can binge seasons of the Spy Who |
| 1:30.2 | ad free with Wondery Plus. |
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