Espionage

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Queen Victoria’s spy network

Queen Victoria in 1861

Queen of spies? Inside Queen Victoria’s secret intelligence network

Winston Churchill discusses the invasion of Sicily with other senior Allied figures in 1943

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Operation Mincemeat: how a corpse duped Hitler ahead of the invasion of Sicily

Helen Fry discusses British intelligence officer Thomas Kendrick, who helped swing the Second World War in favour of the Allies. (Image by Getty Images)

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Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2

German born British physicist and spy, Dr Klaus Fuchs (1911 - 1988) who was tried at the Old Bailey, London on two charges of disclosing atom secrets 'calculated to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy'. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Klaus Fuchs: the scientist who became the Soviet super spy

Michael Goodman tackles listener questions and popular search queries on the history of spying and intelligence. (Image by Getty Images)

Espionage history: everything you wanted to know

Anne Sebba explores the life of Ethel Rosenberg, who was executed for espionage in one of the most sensational and controversial episodes of the Cold War. (Image by Getty Images)

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg

Larry Loftis details the life and work of Aline Griffith, a model-turned-spy who rose to the upper echelons of society in WW2 Spain. (Image by Getty Images)

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Socialite, countess, WW2 spy: Aline Griffith

Kate Vigurs discusses the female agents of Britain’s Special Operations Executive, who carried out resistance work in France during the Second World War

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Women secret agents in Nazi-occupied France

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

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Your guide to Alan Turing: the man, the enigma

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

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Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré

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Kate Vigurs The women of SOE in WW2 France

Helen Fry gives a lecture on MI9’s missions during the to help Allied prisoners of war escape during the Second World War.

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MI9’s secret escape missions

Trevor Barnes details the 1960s operation to uncover the infamous Portland Spy Ring – one of the most dangerous KGB espionage networks ever to operate in the UK. (Image by Getty Images)

Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring

Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

Second World War

Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre