Jun 2022

Bonus: Introducing Rosa Ellis

"She was not just a spy - she was a spymaster". The family secret of Rosa Ellis, host of season 2 of The Bomb. Emily Strasser takes us behind the scenes of this espionage thriller, as Rosa talks about her great-aunt's double life. Season 2 begins on 9 July 2022.

4m 5s

Jun 2022

Introducing The Bomb season 2

The spy who changed history. And a great-aunt's double life. The Bomb is returning with season 2. Klaus Fuchs was a brilliant scientist, but he was also a dangerous spy, stealing atomic secrets and handing them over to the Soviet Union. In this special episode, Emily Strasser tak ... Show More

4m 24s

Sep 2020

S1.7 The doomsday clock

The world’s first nuclear bomb drops on the unsuspecting city of Hiroshima. On 7 August 1945, the world is changed forever. In this final episode, featuring first-hand accounts of the attack that day, Emily Strasser asks how the bomb changed humanity. Have we really come to terms ... Show More

28m 56s

Aug 2022

Bonus podcast: The Bomb

The man who stole the atomic bomb. Klaus Fuchs is the spy who changed history - why did he give the blueprint to the Soviets? This is season 2, episode 1: A grave matter. Search for The Bomb wherever you get your podcasts.

21m 35s

Sep 2023

Episode 8.1

By 1945, the Soviet Union had established a highly effective spy ring operating in the United States. Many of their spies were key figures within the American Government, they also spies in the atomic bomb programme, who would pass on information which helped the Soviets build t ... Show More

21m 6s

Sep 2023

The Impeccable Spy | WW2

For a womanizing Soviet spy, wartime Tokyo is both playground and prison. Surrounded by the enemy, he's got to keep his wits about him - and with an increasingly paranoid leader in the Kremlin, the line between friend and foe is thin indeed.Daisy Ridley joins author Owen Matthews ... Show More

44m 13s

Jan 2021

Introducing: I Spy

We're excited to introduce you to I Spy, a production of Foreign Policy. Each week on I Spy, a former intelligence operative from somewhere around the world tells the story of a single mission. They've featured guests from the CIA, Mossad, MI5, the KGB, and more. The host is thre ... Show More

28m 54s

Apr 2024

La bombe Française : l'équipe Joliot 3/6

Pour écouter l’émission en entier, sans pub, abonnez-vous ! https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'histoire de la bombe atomique française est un récit complexe et fascinant qui s'inscrit dans le contexte tumultueux de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, car en effet, les vraies recherch ... Show More

8m 46s

Mar 2018

World War Two Spycraft: Stealing Nuclear Secrets, Blowing Up Nazi Factories, and Infiltrating Japanese High Command

Spies have been a feature of state security and military intelligence since the beginning of warfare. Entire wars have been won or lost according to these secret activities. Today we will look at spycraft during World War Two, a golden age of espionage. Spycraft was an essential ... Show More

1h 17m

May 2021

The Unabomber | 47

In the 1990s the FBI’s most wanted criminal was an elusive mystery bomber who had been mailing dangerous and deadly packages to executives and university professors since 1978. The UNABOMBER had left a trail of destruction around the United States, but the FBI had very little har ... Show More

53m 14s

Feb 2024

Introducing... The Spy Who

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 ri ... Show More

1m 38s

Jul 2023

The Unabomber Pt. 2

By the 1980s, Ted Kaczynski had set off several bombs, causing only minor injuries — but for him, it wasn’t enough. What had started as a plot for revenge grew into an unrelenting need to change the world. To do that, he needed to kill. The reign of the Unabomber had begun. This ... Show More

46m 19s