True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
Hosted by Joe Foley and Morgan Childs and Vanessa Kirby · SPYSCAPE
4.7from 3,748 ratings
- 360
- Episodes
- 132
- Transcribed
- 3,748
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 126K
- YouTube views
About True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino, Daisy Ridley and Rhiannon Neads talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position? We explore and investigate real life thrillers, mysteries and crimes - stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction! These stories cover lies, murder, theft, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. You’ll meet experts from the top intelligence agencies including FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6 (SIS), KGB, GRU, Mossad and many others. You’ll discover characters who spied because of money, ideology, coercion or just plain old ego. And, if you’d like to dig deeper into the world of secrets, and test your own secret intelligence skills, head over to spyscape.com for articles, games, experiences, puzzles and videos. For episodes first and ad-free, subscribe to Spyscape+ at: plus.Spyscape.com A Cup & Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Music: Nick Ryan.
- Publisher
- SPYSCAPE
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 17 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
132 of 360 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
True Spies Classic: Undercover With The Nipsters | Investigation
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
True Spies Debrief: Julia Ebner on Radicalization, the Internet and Linguistic Analysis
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Killing Lumumba | CIA
Inside a recent episode
True Spies Classic: Undercover With The Nipsters | Investigation
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a metaphor that has been co-opted by the extreme right, and that groups like the identitarians used to describe their slow indoctrination process. They have created a whole guide on how to red pill normies. And this includes strategies on how to gradually leak in their ideologies, but by going through a more acceptable rhetoric and using maybe some funny jokes or visuals, memes, in order to slowly get people to their really extreme end of the spectrum. Some of the people that I spoke to were even saying that they were applying this to their own families, to their own friends. So they were trying to get them to watch more and more extreme videos. […]
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- Julia Ebner
- Stuart A Reid
- Frank Close
- James R Chiles
- Nicholas Reynolds
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- YouTube views
- 125,543
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 1,901 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,847 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 100
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Who hosts True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics?
Joe Foley and Morgan Childs and Vanessa Kirby host the show. Published by SPYSCAPE.
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Does True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics take guests?
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