The Spy Who

Wondery

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 risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.Listen to The Spy Who ad-free on Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/the-spy-who now. 

  • 46 minutes 21 seconds
    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Aimen Dean talks about his time as MI6's Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda | 5

    Aimen Dean talks Raza Jaffrey through the highs and lows of his eight years as an undercover agent and why he chose to spy for the British rather than the Americans.


    He also describes how he felt after his cover was blown when an American writer disclosed his identity with details that could only be sourced to Dean; and what his life has been like since.

    And Raza gets his chance to find whether the spy movies and TV series he's been involved in have anything to do with real life.


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    21 January 2025, 2:01 am
  • 40 minutes 7 seconds
    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Death Sentence | 4

    A deadly plot threatens the New York Subway and Dean is on a mission to thwart it. But when his British spymasters decide to alert the U.S. to the threat, Dean’s deception begins to unravel.


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    21 January 2025, 2:00 am
  • 38 minutes 51 seconds
    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Twin Towers | 3

    Dean is working undercover, posing as a loyal jihadi in Afghanistan, while actually spying for British intelligence. He knows that one mistake is all it will take to wind up dead. But that’s not his only worry because the sense is growing that al-Qaeda has a major plot in the works.


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    14 January 2025, 2:00 am
  • 37 minutes 43 seconds
    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Londonistan | 2

    Aimen Dean is trapped. He wants out of al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but no one gets to leave the jihadi training camps without permission. So when a missile strike hands him the perfect excuse to leave he seizes the chance to break free.


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    7 January 2025, 2:00 am
  • 40 minutes 44 seconds
    The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden (Encore) | Holy War | 1

    It’s 1994 and 16-year-old Aimen Dean wants to die. He’s heading to war-torn Bosnia to join the Mujahideen and save fellow Muslims. He hopes to become a martyr so that he can be reunited with his dead parents in paradise. Instead, he’s about to be confronted by a bloody reality.


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    31 December 2024, 2:00 am
  • 23 minutes 50 seconds
    The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Lumumba's Grandson on Legacy, Loss and the Weight of a Name | 5

    Amory Lumumba was born long after the 1961 assassination of his grandfather. Yet the impact continues to ripple through his family today. Actor and spy novelist Charlie Higson speaks with Amory about the heavy responsibility of carrying the Lumumba name, and the enduring, inspirational legacy that Patrice Lumumba left behind. Plus, Amory tells Charlie why he's convinced the United States were involved in the killing.

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    24 December 2024, 2:00 am
  • 34 minutes 40 seconds
    The Spy Who Gave London its Christmas Tree | 1

    Each Christmas, a giant tree lights up London’s Trafalgar Square. Behind the custom: 007 author Ian Fleming and a secret mission to Norway. This is the story of how wartime espionage gave Britain its most spectacular festive tradition.


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    19 December 2024, 2:00 am
  • 41 minutes 41 seconds
    The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | One Gold Tooth | 4

    New Prime Minister Joseph Mobutu’s grip on power is shaky. It’s Patrice Lumumba who has the people’s support. So the CIA and MI6 start plotting to oust him using any means necessary.

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    17 December 2024, 2:00 am
  • 48 minutes 7 seconds
    The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Cold Jungle | 3

    While Patrice Lumumba battles to control his country, MI6 officer Daphne Park and CIA officer Larry Devlin are secretly battling to stop him turning to the Soviets for help.

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    10 December 2024, 2:00 am
  • 40 minutes 14 seconds
    The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Heart of Darkness | 2

    Newly independent Congo is spiralling into disorder. Disorder the Communists could be quick to exploit. MI6 officer Daphne Park needs to act, and fast.

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    3 December 2024, 2:00 am
  • 44 minutes 54 seconds
    The Spy Who Killed a Prime Minister | Independence Day | 1

    When MI6 sends officer Daphne Park to help stop a communist takeover in Congo, it kickstarts one of the darkest operations in MI6 and CIA history. Because security services either need to win the trust of Congo’s first prime minister, or remove him.

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    26 November 2024, 2:00 am
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