SpyMasters Antonia Senior

The first of two episodes with Dr Calder Walton. This one looks at the development of the intelligence war between the West and the Soviet Union from 1917, follows the story through the fulcrum period of the Second World War and pushes on into the intense espionage games of the Cold War.
Based at Harvard's Kennedy Business School, Calder Walton is one of the world's leading experts on intelligence and national security.
We talk about Marx, the Great Illegals and the Cambridge Five. We talk about a US administration which was riddled with spies. How did intelligence affect the Cold War? How crucial was Oleg Gordievsky?
Next time, we will be talking about espionage, Russia and the West, beyond the Cold War.
The conversation is an insight into Calder's brilliant, bestselling book. Just out in paperback, SPIES: The epic intelligence war between East and West, is a masterful and comprehensive look at the incredible story of Soviet and Western espionage. The West, Calder argues, has a long term Russia problem. Christopher Andrew called it 'a masterpiece'.
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What was it like to meet Anthony Blunt? How did the British Security Service try to stop Nigel West uncovering its secrets? And what qualities do you need to spend your career delving into the murky, shifting waters of intelligence?
Join Antonia Senior as she quizzes Nigel West about a lifetime writing about intelligence, and his brilliant memoir: Classified!: The Adventures of a Molehunter.
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How did August revolutionise Roman intelligence? How connected was Caesar? What intelligence failures dogged the Roman republic?
All these questions answered and more by top novelist, Peter Tonkin.
Buy the the Caesar's Spies' omnibus here.
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Was SJ Parris's protagonist, Giordano Bruno, really a spy? What was his relationship with top Elizabethan spymaster Francis Walsingham?
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For more on SJ Parris, the pseudonym of writer and journalist Stephanie Merritt, click here.
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Former Director of the CIA, General David Petraeus, joins to talk about his book, Conflict, and the evolution of military intelligence. We talk about Iraq, Putin, Weapons of Mass destruction and AI.
General Petraeus Links:
Conflict: A Military History of the Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
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