The Man Behind John le Carré
SpyCast
SpyCast
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 1:00.2 | Welcome to Spycast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum. |
| 1:06.2 | I'm your host, Sasha Ingber, and each week I take you into the shadows of espionage, intelligence, |
| 1:13.1 | and covert operations across the globe. John Le Carre, born David Cornwell in 1931, was a British |
| 1:21.8 | novelist renowned for his morally complex spy fiction. The pen name afforded him creative liberties while he worked in both |
| 1:30.3 | MI5 and MI6, and his breakthrough novel, The Spy, who came in from the Cold, led him to leave the |
| 1:37.7 | Intel community altogether. La Carre's work spanned the globe, covering terrorism and drug networks, private banking and pharmaceutical exploitation, arms trades, and resource plundering. Much of it was taken from people and places he knew. It's all on display at the new tradecraft exhibition on John LaCareay at the University of Oxford's Bodley and Library. |
| 2:04.3 | Historian and curator Jessica Douthwaite joins me from London. |
| 2:09.5 | Jessica, welcome to Spycast and also welcome to my home because we're snowed in here in D.C. |
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