OO7's new boss: Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to run MI6
The Story
[email protected]
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The first woman to run MI6, the foreign branch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Services has been named. Blaise Metreweli takes over the role of ‘C,’ as the head of the service has always been called, in the autumn. She will go from complete anonymity to becoming the public face of British foreign espionage. A long career in espionage means much is shrouded in mystery but we have some fascinating details about the new C and about the history of the job.
This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory
Guests:
- Larisa Brown, Defence Editor, The Times.
- Dr Daniel Lomas - Assistant professor in International Relations. University of Nottingham.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Shabnam Grewal.
Further reading:
Who really is the new MI6 chief? Here’s everything we could find
Blaise Metreweli to be first female chief of MI6
Clips: Sky news, Eon Productions & MGM, @Legaseewarveterans, ITN archive, ABC, Politico.
Photo: Getty Images.
Get in touch: [email protected]
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode of the story is brought to you by Salesforce. |
| 0:04.3 | Workforces are overwhelmed with burnout and stalled productivity, while customers are demanding |
| 0:10.6 | more than ever before. |
| 0:12.7 | But what if your workforce had no limits? |
| 0:16.2 | Agent Force is the complete AI solution on the Salesforce platform that powers always on digital labour. |
| 0:23.5 | It helps companies build AI agents that work together with humans and improve your customers' experience. |
| 0:30.4 | Agent Force trusted AI agents can assist, take actions autonomously, support your customers 24-7, |
| 0:37.2 | and hand over seamlessly to your employees, |
| 0:40.1 | no matter whether you're in sales, customer services, marketing or other roles. |
| 0:45.4 | Imagine. You could join the many businesses that are already unleashing digital labour |
| 0:50.5 | with AI agents using agent force. |
| 0:57.6 | Agent force. It's what AI was meant to be. |
| 1:03.7 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:16.1 | I think for Blaze, spying was the only job that she ever wanted and she managed to get hold of an Osborne spycraft manual from her older brother |
| 1:21.2 | and she's spoken about crossing out his name on the inside cover |
| 1:25.3 | and writing hers in its place. |
| 1:31.6 | Blaise Metravelli will soon be the first female boss of MI6. |
| 1:37.1 | And she also has talked about her and her friends learning pig pen code, |
| 1:41.8 | which is this cipher system replacing letters with symbols. And her and her |
| 1:46.3 | friends would leave notes for each other under flower pots. She's been a spy in the shadows for |
| 1:52.1 | decades, but will soon be in the one public-facing job in the whole place. She will be C. Think |
| 1:59.0 | Judy Dench in the recent Bond films. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from [email protected], and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of [email protected] and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.