This week we separate the Moscow rules and the Mossad missions from the Hollywood fiction with The Spying Game, our fabulous new podcast where the world’s top spies and storytellers tell all - hosted by three-time BAFTA winner and ‘professional liar’ Rory Bremner.
The Spying Game
Want to know what’s real and what’s not? Join The Spying Game every week as political satirist Rory Bremner dissects everything from Agent Sonya to Bodyguard, and from The Ratline to Line of Duty. You’ll hear from top storytellers in the spy genre including American Spy novelist Lauren Wilkinson, plus Ben Macintyre, Jed Mercurio, Joe Weisberg and many more - and the real-life spies who debunk their fabrications!
Operation Mincemeat involved a dead body, a new identity, and a devilish plot dreamed up by Ian Fleming to deceive Hitler in WWII. Former MI6 officer Julian Fisher and spy novelist Ben Macintyre discuss this wild plan, tradecraft and the art of deceit in today’s episode of The Spying Game. After all, if you can’t conjure up a convincing story, you’re unlikely to go far in the world of espionage.
The Americans’ executive producer Joe Weisberg - a former CIA officer turned Hollywood screenwriter and novelist - knows more than most about deception, disguise, and sleeper spies. Joe and former KGB sleeper agent Jack Barsky peel back the Iron Curtain in this fascinating exposé of life deep undercover.
Spy movies are dominated by men but espionage’s history is shaped by women from WWII’s Virginia Hall to Agent 355, the codename for the first female spy in the American Revolution. In this life-meets-art pairing, ex-CIA officer Amaryllis Fox and Agent 355 film director Simon Kinberg examine the kinship between actors and spies who transform into characters they don’t always like.
Ex-Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras and Royal Air Force officer Jed Mercurio both thrive in highly charged life-and-death situations. Evy is a former bodyguard to four US Presidents while Jed was an RAF doctor before creating his hit series Bodyguard. Together, they break down the realities of deception, drama, and duty.
The Spying Game offers insight into Bourne, Bond, Alex Rider and other major spy franchises, so who better to guide you through the shadows than Anthony Horowitz, the acclaimed British author of three James Bond novels and the Alex Rider series? Anthony trades secrets with Shawnee Delaney, a decorated US intelligence officer who has conducted thousands of investigations inside America and behind enemy lines.
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