20 episodes

These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.

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The Spy Who Wondery

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    • 4.7 • 138 Ratings

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These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.

Listen to The Spy Who on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/the-spy-who now. 

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    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Holy War

    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Holy War

    It’s 1994 and 16-year-old Aimen Dean wants to die. He’s heading to war-torn Bosnia to join the Mujahideen and save fellow Muslims. He hopes to become a martyr so that he can be reunited with his dead parents in paradise. Instead, he’s about to be confronted by a bloody reality.

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    • 40 min
    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Londonistan

    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Londonistan

    This episode comes out for free on 11/06, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.

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    Aimen Dean is trapped. He wants out of al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but no one gets to leave the jihadi training camps without permission. So when a missile strike hands him the perfect excuse to leave he seizes the chance to break free.

    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Twin Towers

    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Twin Towers

    This episode comes out for free on 18/06, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.

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    Aimen Dean is now working undercover posing as a loyal jihadi in Afghanistan, while actually spying for the British intelligence service MI6. And he knows that one mistake is all it will take to wind up dead. But that’s not his only worry because the sense that al-Qaeda’s got a major plot in the works is growing by the day.

    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Death Sentence

    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Death Sentence

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    Aimen Dean is now on a mission to thwart a deadly plot to release poison gas on the New York Subway. But when his British spymasters decide to alert the U.S. to the threat, Dean’s deception begins to unravel.

    The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | The Tiger Stirs

    The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | The Tiger Stirs

    It’s June 1940 and the German forces are closing in on Paris. Noor Inayat Khan escapes to Britain just in time but is determined to return to Nazi-occupied France as a radio operator for Britain’s new covert ops agency. But her recruiters encounter a problem: she strongly believes it is wrong to lie.

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    • 37 min
    The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | One Summer In Paris

    The Spy Who Wouldn't Lie | One Summer In Paris

    Noor Inayat Khan is back in France, eager to use her radio skills to help fight back against the Nazi occupation. But when two other agents fall into the Gestapo’s hands, she and the rest of the British spy ring in Paris find themselves being hunted down.

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    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
138 Ratings

138 Ratings

Nessi505 ,

Worth the cost for Wondery+

This podcast alone makes the Wondery+ subscription worth it. Great story telling about amazing people you’ve never heard of. Particularly appreciate that they’re telling the stories of the women of the SOE.

oldjohnhall ,

Love it!

Binged every season so far, love the presenters!
Really love the realism!
Excellent sound effects and love all the cursing!
So real!

JD⚾️ ,

Enjoy podcast

Love the content, just pls don’t make it explicit whenever it is avoidable.

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