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The Service

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  • What to Listen to Next: The Agency

    April 8, 2026 · 47 min

    From the team who brought you The Service, John Daniell and Guyon Espiner return with a new podcast from RNZ and Bird of Paradise Productions called The Agency. The series follows Kit Bennets, a young officer with New Zealand's SIS who is…

  • New Revelations

    November 1, 2020 · 48 min

    Guyon and John break radio silence with new revelations about SIS operations, the reactions from Iran and India and news about surveillance of one of New Zealand's most renowned writers. And Guyon re-thinks his conclusions. To see more…

  • More Raids Confirmed

    July 1, 2020 · 7 min

    More raids. More embassies. More breaking of international law. Ongoing investigations have uncovered other break-ins by New Zealand's SIS to bug and steal from embassies in Wellington, teaming up with the CIA as well as MI6. To see more…

  • The Raid

    June 10, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min

    In the final episode, we close in on the details around the joint MI6/SIS operation targeting the Czechoslovakian Embassy. Finally, someone who was on the raid breaks their silence. But there's a twist... To see more images and details…

  • The Club

    June 9, 2020 · 60 min

    The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance with roots that go all the way back to World War II. It's a tight club - but just what does membership demand of us? To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here. As the…

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  • A Full Court Press from the KGB

    June 9, 2020 · 52 min

    In the mid-1980s, New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy is attracting international attention. With the ANZUS alliance in crisis, the KGB see an opportunity. To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here. The world…

  • The Wilderness of Mirrors

    June 8, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min

    New Zealand has Cold War spy stories we know about - and some we don't. Even now, it's hard to get people to talk. The big question is: who do you trust? To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here. Throughout…

  • One Night in Wadestown

    June 7, 2020 · 50 min

    On his 10th birthday, John Daniell's Mum tells him she used to work for the SIS. But that's just the start of the secrets... To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here. John Daniell grew up in a house where…

  • Introducing: The Service

    June 3, 2020 · 3 min

    Just before he died, John Daniell's step-dad told him a secret from his time as a spy. A secret that was possibly New Zealand's biggest of the Cold War and that has never been revealed. Until now. To see more images and details about the…

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About the show

The day John Daniell turned 10, his mum told him she had been a spy. Now, he and Guyon Espiner are investigating a family story that could reveal New Zealand's biggest Cold War secret.