All Episodes

Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire Pt.2

STALIN'S APOSTLES: The Cambridge Five and the making of the Soviet Empire

Spymasters Documentary - Sky Arts, Director Adrian Munsey

The Spy Who Shaped Britain: Daniel Defoe and the Secret Politics of Union

Spies and Other Gods: James Wolff on British intelligence, secrecy, and the “soul” of spying

A Stranger in Corfu: MI6, Betrayal, and the Island Where Spies Disappear, with Alex Preston

From CIA to Spy Novelist: The Israel–Iran Shadow War Behind The Persian | David McCloskey

KGB Literati: How Soviet Spy Fiction Shaped the Secret State

Spymasters and Aspects of Crime Books of the Year 2025!

China, Espionage and the Price of Compromise: The Peak, with San Guthrie

Spy fiction: hidden classics and old favourites with Paul Burke

Spying on the Revolution: Gunnar Ekberg, Infiltration, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism.

Behind German Lines: The White Lady, with Dr Helen Fry

Spies, fiction, and the legacy of October 7. The Protocols of Spying with Merle Nygate.

The Wolfpack and the Codebreakers: The Enigma story from the German perspective, with Roger Moorhouse

SOE in Europe: extraordinary women with Kate Vigurs

From Cold War to Cyber Age: Frederick Forsyth, Modern Spy Thrillers & the Spymasters Book Prize

Torture, Terror and Trump: The CIA in the 21st Century with Tim Weiner

The Spy Who Knew Too Much: Vasili Mitrokhin and the KGB's Secret History, with Gordon Corera

The Poet's Game: writing a bestselling spy thriller, with Paul Vidich

Clara Vine: an actress and a spy. An interview with novelist Jane Thynne.

Spying on Hitler: The Spy and the Devil with Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Crooks and Spies in WW2 London, with Mark Ellis

The Son Who Wasn't - an incredible true story of espionage and betrayal.

The CIA Book Club, with Charlie English

Simon Scarrow on A Death in Berlin

Trump and our Intelligence Alliance, with Michael Smith

The Oligarch's Daughter, with Joseph Finder

The Seventh Floor, with David McCloskey

Notes on a Drowning, with Anna Sharpe

William Boyd on writing Gabriel's Moon

Spymasters Books of the Year 2024

Trump, Foreign Policy and Intelligence, with Michael Smith

Putin's Spooks. Inside the FSB, with Dr Kevin Riehle

From Spy to Writer, with IS Berry

Spies, Istanbul and the 1930s, with Alec Marsh

To Catch a Spy. The Spycatcher Affair, with Tim Tate

Midnight in Vienna, with Jane Thynne

Spycraft. Tricks and tools of the dangerous trade from Elizabeth 1 to the Restoration. With Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman

Honour Among Spies, with Merle Nygate

The CIA. An Imperial History. With Hugh Wilford

Read spies; Watch spies. With Oliver Webb-Carter, Editor, Aspects of History.

Intelligence and the Holocaust, with Roger Moorhouse

Every Spy a Traitor, with Alex Gerlis

Writing Spy Fiction, with Thomas Waugh

SPIES: The Brave New World, with Calder Walton

SPIES: The epic intelligence war between East and West, with Calder Walton

The Cuban Missile Crisis, with Michael Smith

Classified! With Nigel West

Roman Spies with Peter Tonkin

Alchemy: Spies, magic and the Elizabethan world. With SJ Parris

Conflict and Military Intelligence with General David Petraeus

Edith Cavell: Nurse, Spy, Heroine. With Dr Helen Fry

Moscow X with David McCloskey

Introducing....The SpyMasters Podcast