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Spy Cities

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Membership is informal. Discretion is not. In this on-location series, Angus Blair and David Ludlow take you inside the real rooms where espionage history was made — the corner tables, hotel suites, smoky clubs and quiet side streets where spies exchanged envelopes and empires quietly shifted. These are not fictional thrillers. These are the real stories of charming traitors, elegant double agents and the cities that made them. New city. New spy. Same bad behaviour. Meet us in the lobby. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest episodes

Spy Cities: Season Mid-break Q&A

September 30, 2026 · 11 min

We caught up with hosts Angus and Hove after they'd visited a dead drop location during the season break. They produced a sheet of questions from our listeners and here we gain some fascinating insights into their favourite drinks, hotels…
Spy Cities: Prague

September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

PRAGUE: CARLOS THE JACKAL AND THE COLD WAR SECRET POLICE In Cold War Prague, capital of communist Czechoslovakia, sanctuary was offered to Carlos the Jackal and a group of unstable Palestinian militants. The Czechoslovak secret police…
Spy Cities: Shanghai

September 2, 2026 · 60 min

SHANGHAI: SPIES, SORGE AND THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY UNDERWORLD Step back into the espionage underworld of 1920s and 30s Shanghai, one of the most dangerous and lawless cities on earth. Our guide is Mark Logan, former British Member of…
Spy Cities: The Hague and Haarlem

August 26, 2026 · 47 min

NETHERLANDS: THE DUTCH RESISTANCE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST THE NAZIS Stand on the beach where a real James Bond-style landing took place — dinner jacket worn under a wetsuit. Take breakfast at the Konditorei whose Jewish owner ran a dead-letter…
Spy Cities: The Hague and Venlo

August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

THE HAGUE & VENLO: BRITAIN’S GREATEST INTELLIGENCE DISASTER? The 1939 Venlo Incident - the Gestapo’s kidnapping of two British MI6 officers on the Dutch–German border - remains one of the Allies’ greatest intelligence disasters of the…
Spy Cities: Tangier

August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

TANGIER: SHADY PEOPLE IN A SUNNY PLACE Gibraltar’s southern twin among WWII espionage hubs, this ancient Moroccan port city has seen it all. One OSS officer branded it a “nest of vipers,” and Ian Fleming stayed at the El Minzah Hotel in…
Spy Cities: Gibraltar

August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

GIBRALTAR: SPIES ON THE ROCK Guarding the Strait of Gibraltar — the all-important sea lane linking the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean — this tiny relic of the British Empire hides a labyrinth of wartime secrets in its tunnels and…
Spy Cities: London Part Two

July 29, 2026 · 49 min

LONDON: THE DOWNFALL OF THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE 75 years on from the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess to the Soviet Union, we follow their alcohol fuelled final days in London. From upmarket hotels to station bars; from sophisticated…