True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
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- 🇬🇧GB · True Crime#8530K to 100K
- 🇦🇺AU · True Crime#1165K to 30K
- 🇺🇸US · True Crime#1825K to 30K
- 🇨🇦CA · True Crime#1845K to 30K
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Bitter Fruit and Black Ops | CIA/MI6
Jul 7, 2026
42m 53s
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Berlin
Jul 2, 2026
33m 44s
True Spies Classic: Hunting The Wolverine | CIA
Jun 30, 2026
51m 01s
True Spies Debrief: Ralf Little and David Eldridge on Staging Le Carré
Jun 23, 2026
37m 19s
An Extremely Violent Year | DEA
Jun 16, 2026
43m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 7/7/26 |  Bitter Fruit and Black Ops | CIA/MI6 | As the Iron Curtain descends across Eastern Europe, the West is determined to roll back the march of Communism - starting with Albania. Historian Stephen Long is your guide to Operation BGFiend/Valuable - the joint MI6-CIA operation that laid the groundwork for 40 years of Cold War. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Stephen Long is the author of A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: CIA–MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Birth of the Cold War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 42m 53s | ||||||
| 7/2/26 |  Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Berlin | Content Warning: This episode contains sex references. In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide to the shadowy side of the world's espionage capitals. In Berlin, we'll meet a 19th century innovator in political policing, follow the little-known spy origins of the 20th century's most hated dictator, and follow an elite British unit into hostile East Germany. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets and skills. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Assistant Producer: Albert Genower. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 33m 44s | ||||||
| 6/30/26 |  True Spies Classic: Hunting The Wolverine | CIA | In the desert of Southern Afghanistan, CIA Case Officer Douglas Laux is on the hunt. He's traced a number of deadly IED attacks to a shadowy figure with ties to the Taliban. In this classic episode of True Spies, his mission is to bring him down before more US personnel are killed. To do so, he'll have to push himself - and his assets - to the limit. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 51m 01s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 |  True Spies Debrief: Ralf Little and David Eldridge on Staging Le Carré | True Spies producer Joe Foley speaks to Ralf Little and David Eldridge - the star and writer of the stage version of John Le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, currently touring the UK. They talk about bringing Le Carre’s world to life, the resonance of this story in the 21st century, and a meeting with the legendary author himself. Morgan Childs will return for the next Debrief. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 37m 19s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 |  An Extremely Violent Year | DEA | It's the summer of 2006, and former DEA Agent Jeffrey James Higgins is your guide to an audacious HUMINT operation against an Afghan narco-terrorist. But in a lawless part of the world, the life of a lawman is a dangerous one - and success is always tempered by tragedy. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 43m 21s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 |  True Spies Classic: New Russia, New Rules | CIA✨ | RussiaCIA+4 | Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | CIA | RussiaMoscow+1 | espionageCIA+6 | — | 41m 29s | |
| 6/2/26 |  True Spies Debrief: Sean Wiswesser on Russian Intelligence Strategy✨ | Russian intelligenceespionage+3 | Sean Wiswesser | SPYSCAPETradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War | — | Russian intelligenceespionage+3 | — | 48m 10s | |
| 5/27/26 |  Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Beijing✨ | EspionageCold War+5 | — | CIASPYSCAPE+1 | Beijing | espionageBeijing+5 | — | 35m 57s | |
| 5/26/26 |  Red Rag to a Grey Bull | Private Sector✨ | exfiltrationconflict+3 | Bryan Stern | Grey BullSPYSCAPE+1 | Ukraine | exfiltrationUkraine+3 | — | 52m 50s | |
| 5/19/26 |  True Spies Classic: White Traitor | ANC✨ | espionagejournalism+3 | — | African National CongressSPYSCAPE | — | Sue DobsonAfrican National Congress+5 | — | 52m 36s | |
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| 5/12/26 |  True Spies Debrief: Miles Johnson on Intelligence and Organised Crime✨ | intelligenceorganised crime+3 | Miles Johnson | Financial TimesSPYSCAPE+1 | — | intelligenceorganized crime+3 | — | 37m 32s | |
| 5/5/26 |  All Very Freddie | Private Security✨ | private securitycoup planning+4 | Julian Fisher | SPYSCAPEA Cup And Nuzzle+1 | — | coupprivate security+5 | — | 37m 45s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Moscow✨ | espionageintelligence+5 | — | CIAFSB | MoscowRussia | espionageMoscow+5 | — | 31m 58s | |
| 4/28/26 |  True Spies Classic: Operation Ajax | CIA & MI6✨ | espionagepolitics+4 | Ervand Abrahamian | CIAMI6+2 | Iran | Operation AjaxCIA+7 | — | 51m 56s | |
| 4/21/26 |  True Spies Debrief - Aaron Tracy on the Secret World of Roald Dahl✨ | Roald Dahlwartime spy+3 | Aaron Tracy | British Security CoordinationSPYSCAPE+2 | — | Roald Dahlspy+6 | — | 41m 02s | |
| 4/14/26 |  Writer and Traitor | MI6✨ | espionageWorld War Two+4 | Robert Verkaik | MI6SPYSCAPE+1 | — | Graham GreeneKim Philby+7 | — | 54m 07s | |
| 4/7/26 |  True Spies Classic: You Me, Same Same | CIA✨ | CIAespionage+3 | Ryan Hillsberg | CIASPYSCAPE+1 | — | CIAespionage+3 | — | 40m 54s | |
| 4/2/26 |  Brief Histories: Spy Cities - New York✨ | espionagehistory+3 | — | SPYSCAPE | New York | espionageNew York+5 | — | 30m 13s | |
| 3/31/26 |  True Spies Debrief - Christina Hillsberg on the Women of the CIA✨ | women in espionageCIA history+3 | Christina Hillsberg | CIASPYSCAPE+2 | — | CIAChristina Hillsberg+3 | — | 42m 02s | |
| 3/24/26 |  The Family Affair | WW2✨ | family historyWorld War II+3 | Christine Kuehn | SPYSCAPEA Cup And Nuzzle | — | family affairWorld War II+5 | — | 1h 02m 44s | |
| 3/17/26 |  True Spies Classic: The Mouse at Pearl Harbor | WW2✨ | espionageWorld War II+4 | Takeo Yoshikawa | SPYSCAPEA Cup And Nuzzle | Honolulu | spyPearl Harbor+5 | — | 48m 58s | |
| 3/10/26 |  True Spies Debrief: Terry Stiastny on Britain's WW2 Propaganda Machine✨ | WW2propaganda+3 | Terry Stiastny | Political Warfare ExecutiveSPYSCAPE+1 | — | propagandaWW2+3 | — | 37m 03s | |
| 3/5/26 |  Brief Histories: Spy Cities - London✨ | espionagecounter-terrorism+3 | — | SPYSCAPE | London | espionageLondon+4 | — | 26m 47s | |
| 3/3/26 |  Cold SNAP | CIA✨ | espionageclimbing+4 | Jeffrey Gettleman | SPYSCAPENew York Times | Himalayan mountains | CIAHimalayan mountains+6 | — | 46m 49s | |
| 2/24/26 |  True Spies Classic: Sister Spies | WW2 | In this classic episode of True Spies, Vanessa Kirby meets Pat and Jean Owtram, two British sisters who played crucial roles as Allied codebreakers during World War 2. Bound by the Official Secrets Act, neither sister knew that the other was a spy until decades later. In their 90s, they reveal their hidden hands in planning D-Day, aiding the Resistance, and cracking the Enigma code. Tune in to True Spies to hear their story. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets and skills. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Mariana Des Forges. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 44m 22s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
28 placements across 28 markets.
Chart Positions
28 placements across 28 markets.