Spy Cities

SHANGHAI: SPIES, SORGE AND THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY UNDERWORLDStep back into the espionage underworld of 1920s and 30s Shanghai, one of the most dangerous and lawless cities on earth. Our guide is Mark Logan, former British Member of Parliament, Shanghai-based diplomat and fluent Mandarin speaker. We track down the spies who worked this treacherous ground: future premier Zhou Enlai, Soviet master agent Richard Sorge, a young Wallis Simpson, and Ursula Kuczynski (Agent Sonya). This is the spy history that shaped modern China.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

NETHERLANDS: THE DUTCH RESISTANCE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST THE NAZISStand on the beach where a real James Bond-style landing took place — dinner jacket worn under a wetsuit. Take breakfast at the Konditorei whose Jewish owner ran a dead-letter drop for MI6 at the outbreak of war. Then cycle the calm lanes of picturesque Haarlem, where teenage sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen assassinated German officers and their Dutch collaborators.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

TANGIER: SHADY PEOPLE IN A SUNNY PLACEGibraltar’s southern twin among WWII espionage hubs, this ancient Moroccan port city has seen it all. One OSS officer branded it a “nest of vipers,” and Ian Fleming stayed at the El Minzah Hotel in 1941 while planning Operation Goldeneye. A visit to the chaotic Grand Socco is a must: this was the beating heart of the Tangier International Zone (1924–1956), where spies of every stripe operated with impunity.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

GIBRALTAR: SPIES ON THE ROCKGuarding the Strait of Gibraltar — the all-important sea lane linking the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean — this tiny relic of the British Empire hides a labyrinth of wartime secrets in its tunnels and fortifications. A WWII espionage playground for British SOE commandos, German Abwehr agents and daring Italian frogmen, the narrow streets beneath the towering Rock of Gibraltar are still redolent of intrigue, sabotage and deception.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

LONDON: THE DOWNFALL OF THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE75 years on from the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess to the Soviet Union, we follow their alcohol fuelled final days in London. From upmarket hotels to station bars; from sophisticated gentlemen's clubs to louche night clubs. A tale of conspicuous consumption...For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

BERLIN: COLD WAR TECHNICAL ESPIONAGE HUBOur first – but certainly not last – visit to Berlin takes us underground, to the telecom taps betrayed by double agent George Blake; underwater, as British divers wrestle to recover secrets from a crashed Soviet jet; and high above the city to the Teufelsberg listening station.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

WASHINGTON DC: INTO THE WILDERNESS OF MIRRORSFormer CIA case officer turned intelligence historian Professor David Gioe joins us to uncover the secret side of Washington DC. Bringing an insider's perspective, he takes us to locations where some of America's most notorious traitors sold out their country.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/

ISTANBUL: SPIES AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLDByzantium. Constantinople. Stamboul. Istanbul. A city with many names to match its long history. Straddling Europe and Asia, spies have competed in the city over millennia. As we discover, rival empires have left their stamp on both espionage fact and fiction.For further background on this and all episodes of Spy Cities please check out https://www.spycities.com/EpisodesWe’d love to hear your feedback. Please drop us a message - coded or not - to Control@spycities.com’This has been a Chatterbox Audio Production https://chatterboxaudio.com/