Espionage

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

Second World War

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

Ian Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character

James Bond in real life: where did Ian Fleming’s inspirations come from?

Helen Fry discusses the top-secret work of MI9, which helped Allied prisoners of war escape during WW2. (Image by Getty Images)

Second World War

Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe

A portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, c1588. (Photo by ACTIVE MUSEUM / Alamy Stock Photo)

Walter Ralegh: “The rankest traitor in all England?”

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor

Staff hard at work at Bletchley Park. The people who worked here did so under conditions of utmost secrecy, and with little idea of how their work slotted into the grand scheme of things. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Second World War

Bletchley Park: Britain’s wartime intelligence factory

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

British author, historian, reviewer and columnist Ben Macintyre

Second World War

Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

Second World War

My history hero: Michael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek

Rjukan Hydro Plant

Second World War

Spying in WW2: how wartime espionage was just as dramatic as fiction

Sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, the

Second World War

Noor Inayat Khan: why was the British spy such an unlikely war hero?

Sir Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

Who was Sir Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five? Plus 4 others who spied for the Soviets

Podcast Website Large Helen Fry - WWII Intelligence

Second World War

Secret listeners

Henry Hemming.

Second World War

Fake news in World War Two