The Spy Who
5.0/5
Critic Rating
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.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Fiona Sturges • Financial Times • Dec 16, 2024
"Far from jumping on the bandwagon, podcast series The Spy Who has proved ahead of the curve...All this is told via a surprisingly fluid combination of narration and dramatised reconstructions...The result is a show that makes you feel as if you’re being read a particularly action-packed bedtime story, albeit one with immersive sound design — headphones are a must for this series — and an elegantly understated score."
Score: 5
Scott Bryan • Podcast Rex • Mar 10, 2024
"...features storytelling with immersive sound production and the hosts acting the various characters and what they have said. It is essentially like being read a bedtime story but with a scale and production of a Radio 4 play."
Score: 5
Hannah Verdier • The Guardian • Feb 22, 2024
"It’s irresistibly film-like, with dramatic recreations of scenes from the time."
