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Revisiting Cyprus after 50 years
Jul 19, 2024
38m 38s
Diplomacy, Ukraine and the consequences of Putin
Sep 4, 2022
38m 58s
The early years - the life & natural world of Kingston on Spey
Dec 29, 2021
57m 41s
Ankara, Turkey - 1989-91
Jun 8, 2021
1h 05m 17s
Reflections on Hong Kong, China, politics, community and life
Oct 25, 2020
52m 20s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 7/19/24 | Revisiting Cyprus after 50 years | Send a text Iain Craigie and daughter Jane revisit Cyprus after over 50 years. The island is now divided between the Greek and Turkish ruled areas, after separation in 1974. The island remains strategically hugely important, given its location in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and the unrest in the middle east. Iain and Jane, also visited Famagusta, where the Craigies lived in the late 1960s. As part of one of these visits they went to Varosha, the ghost town where Greek families... | 38m 38s | ||||||
| 9/4/22 | Diplomacy, Ukraine and the consequences of Putin | Send a text In this episode, Jane Craigie and her Dad, Iain Craigie, look back into Iain's career in intelligence to hear his take on what is happening following the upheaval and displacement caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This was recorded at the height of this summer's UK heatwave before Russia permitted the first shipment of grain from Ukraine. | 38m 58s | ||||||
| 12/29/21 | The early years - the life & natural world of Kingston on Spey | Send a text In this episode, Iain Craigie remembers his early life - in the 1940s and ‘50s in a little North Eastern Scottish village, Kingston-on-Spey. The rich conversation with his daughter, Jane Craigie, covers a young boy’s relationships with nature, the long-lost shopkeepers and the ebb and flow, and immense freedom of living in a coastal village at the end, and immediately after World War II. If you love conversation, our natural environment and Scotland, we hope that you’ll... | 57m 41s | ||||||
| 6/8/21 | Ankara, Turkey - 1989-91 | Send a text In this episode, Jane asks her Dad, Iain about his time in Ankara working for GCHQ. His post was senior, he was responsible for staff at the British Embassy in Ankara, and also 100 staff at the Black Sea site at Sinop. The posting was at a pivotal time for the Middle East, just ahead of the first Gulf War. Arguably, the start of the current wave of unrest in the region. A key responsibility for Iain was regular liaison with the General of the Turkish Army. There’s a lengthy dela... | 1h 05m 17s | ||||||
| 10/25/20 | Reflections on Hong Kong, China, politics, community and life | Send a text A rich conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie covering Iain’s two postings in Hong Kong in the late 1950s and late 1980s. Not only does the discussion delve into China’s might in our world, it also covers the power of politics, community and health. The podcast is fascinating and also gives inspiration to anyone thinking that old age should diminish a person. Iain proves that it clearly doesn’t. | 52m 20s | ||||||
| 7/24/20 | Unlikely connections - the Hindu Kush and Pine Gap | Send a text In this episode, Jane Craigie talks to Iain Craigie about the instability of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the coming together of the international intelligence community to create the facility at Pine Gap in Australia to understand and mitigate this threat. The discussion also covers Iain's views on how power might shift towards countries like China as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. "China is in a very strong position," he said. Iain talks about the value of diplom... | 53m 56s | ||||||
| 6/7/20 | Turkey in the 1970s - Istanbul, Gallipoli and the Black Sea coast | Send a text This episode capture the conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, about three precious years based in Istanbul in the 1970s. Iain’s time was as a more senior intelligence manager with GCHQ, their ‘target’ was Russia. Iain explains the start of using satellites for intelligence gathering - courtesy of the Americans who owned them. Discussions include how the British diplomatic service viewed British intelligence in postings like Turkey where there was so much... | 54m 12s | ||||||
| 5/17/20 | India 1969-70 And 2020 and Holidaying in Afghanistan | Send a text In this episode, father and daughter, Iain and Jane Craigie talk about life in India from 1969-72, holidaying in India’s hill stations, into the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan. Their return to India in February 2020, and why GCHQ had, and still has, an interest in the region. The conversation spans who the intelligence ‘targets’ were - India and Russia - and how the terrain made ‘listening’ extremely challenging. Iain and Jane also talk through the Indian caste system, the reli... | 44m 09s | ||||||
| 4/13/20 | Buckie, Bletchley and Cyprus | Send a text In this podcast, accompanied by the snoring of Lily, a 16-year-old Jack Russell, Jane explores the early part of her father, Iain’s, life in the tax office in Buckie, in North East Scotland. The conversation charts the start of his career at Bletchley Park, and his first GCHQ posting, as a young married man to Cyprus, with a new baby (Jane). The episode discusses how intelligence officers in the 1960s ‘listened’ to gather information with what is now considered very rudimen... | 50m 28s | ||||||
| 3/15/20 | Iain Craigie’s early life in Morayshire - 1939-1950s | Send a text My Dad, Iain Craigie was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia where his father had worked as an engineer. In 1939, aged one, the family moved back to their native Morayshire in north east Scotland. Their first home was a rented one bedroom cottage in Urquhart, near Elgin - by then there were five members of the family, my grandfather, Naylor, and grandmother, Susan (nee Junner). The cottage was on the flight path of German bombers flying back to base from London and Cambridge, so Ia... | 29m 30s | ||||||
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| 3/1/20 | Saudi Arabia, training Saudi soldiers to set up their own intelligence capability | Send a text In this conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, the discussion centres on Iain’s posting to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia between 1979 and 1980. Iain was based there as one of five GCHQ operatives. Their role was to train Saudi Arabia’s national guard - mainly Bedouin - on how to set up the country’s own intelligence systems. The posting was challenging, because most of the tutees were near illiterate, and the subject matter was highly technical. The time t... | 44m 05s | ||||||
| 2/15/20 | 1950s posting to Hong Kong and Labuan | Send a text In this episode Iain Craigie talks to daughter, Jane Craigie, about his posting to Hong Kong with a secondment to Labuan. It was in the late 1950s, so WWII was still fresh in minds and diplomacy. Iain’s bases were Direction Finding (DF) Stations - rudimentary huts using HF radio. His Hong Kong posting was near the Chinese border. The conversation will take you through the importance of DF stations, how they were connected, the British intelligence interest in, and the secrecy of t... | 22m 34s | ||||||
| 1/20/20 | The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast | Send a text In this first episode, Jane Craigie talks to her father, Iain Craigie, about his early life in Intelligence in the 1950s. His career started when he signed up for voluntary service as a Radio Officer in the RAF. His preliminary training was at Beaumanor Hall and Bletchley Park. The primary targets for surveillance, the Russians. | 22m 15s | ||||||
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