{"podcast":{"title":"True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics","slug":"true-spies-espionage-investigation-crime-murder-detective-politics-364993","podcast_index_feed_id":364993,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/truespies","website_url":"https://spyscape.com/podcasts","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/261d06e2-808a-11ea-a89f-1ff66058fb03/image/True_Spies_Image__BIG_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"SPYSCAPE","episode_count":337,"summary":"True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino, Daisy Ridley and Rhiannon Neads talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position? We explore and investigate real life thrillers, mysteries and crimes - stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction! These stories cover lies, murder, theft, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. You’ll meet experts from the top intelligence agencies including FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6 (SIS), KGB, GRU, Mossad and many others. You’ll discover characters who spied because of money, ideology, coercion or just plain old ego. And, if you’d like to dig deeper into the world of secrets, and test your own secret intelligence skills, head over to spyscape.com for articles, games, experiences, puzzles and videos. For episodes first and ad-free, subscribe to Spyscape+ at: plus.Spyscape.com A Cup & Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Music: Nick Ryan.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T16:20:01.220930+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-spies-espionage-investigation-crime-murder-detective-politics-364993"},"episode":{"title":"True Spies Debrief: Gordon Corera on Vasili Mitrokhin","slug":"true-spies-debrief-gordon-corera-on-vasili-mitrokhin","published_at":"2026-01-27T08:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-spies-espionage-investigation-crime-murder-detective-politics-364993/true-spies-debrief-gordon-corera-on-vasili-mitrokhin","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-spies-espionage-investigation-crime-murder-detective-politics-364993","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/rss.pdrl.fm/1e0936/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML6554151245.mp3?updated=1768587408","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/rss.pdrl.fm/1e0936/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML6554151245.mp3?updated=1768587408","summary":"Gordon Corera, veteran security journalist and co-host of The Rest is Classified, joins Morgan Childs to discuss the central figure in his latest book - Vasili Mitrokhin. Mitrokhin was a KGB archivist who defected to the West in 1992, bringing with him a trove of Russian secrets. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Gordon Corera is the author of The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Gordon Corera, veteran security journalist and co-host of The Rest is Classified, joins Morgan Childs to discuss the central figure in his latest book - V…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2634,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-spies-espionage-investigation-crime-murder-detective-politics-364993/episodes/true-spies-debrief-gordon-corera-on-vasili-mitrokhin/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-spies-espionage-investigation-crime-murder-detective-politics-364993/true-spies-debrief-gordon-corera-on-vasili-mitrokhin.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}