These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing... more
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Noor Inayat Khan is back in France, eager to use her radio skills to help fight back against the Nazi... more
It’s June 1940 and the German forces are closing in on Paris. Noor Inayat Khan escapes to Britain just in... more
Why was the Cambridge Five scandal so embarrassing to MI5? And how significant was Oleg Lyalin's success in restoring faith... more
When ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it... more
Operation Foot is now happening. And British government knows that its attempt to neutralise the KGB in London will be... more
There’s panic at MI5 headquarters. Oleg Lyalin, their man inside the KGB, has just been arrested for drunk driving putting... more
Oleg Lyalin is now compromised. To survive, he must now find a way to maintain the fictions of his multiple... more
MI5 is on its knees at the dawn of the 1970s: Soviet spies are running free around the country and... more
Charlotte Philby interviews Andrew Lycett, the biographer of Ian Fleming, about the other real life spies that inspired his most... more
British intelligence is out to fool the Nazis into thinking the Allies invasion will start anywhere but Normandy. But to... more