I know, you love the Spybrary Spy Podcasts but when you are finished listening to the latest episode and have raided the Spybrary Episode Archive you have to wait a week or two for the next one.
Whilst you are waiting for the next Spybrary episode, we recommend our friends below who all produce epic espionage, intelligence, and spy podcasts. All the podcasts below are Spybrary Approved. If there is a spy-related podcast you enjoy and we are not listing it please drop me a line at the Contact Us page.
Maybe you are new here, in that case, do check out the Spybrary Spy Podcast which the UK Radio Times‘ described as ‘espionage as entertainment.’
We will shortly be publishing more top 10 spy podcasts including our top 10 spy fiction and top 10 spy non fiction podcasts, watch this space.
Note: These spy podcasts are not ranked in order of quality, they are all Number 1 in my book
Established in 2017, The Spybrary Podcast covers spy books, spy movies, spy TV series both fiction and non-fiction.
Includes author interviews including Ben Macintyre, Charles Cumming, Mick Herron, plus real spies, intelligence experts, and spy fan features such as Dead Drop 5 (think Desert Island Discs,) The James Bond Book Club, the infamous Spybrary Brush Pass reviews sent in by listeners and the Spybrary Tea Break, 15 minute interviews with spy authors.
Spybrary offers a highly engaged community of spy fans on its Facebook group.
Shane’s favorite Spybrary Episode – It would be very unfair for me to pick one so I give you our most popular Spybrary Spy Podcast Episode – Tim Shipman of the Sunday Times on Spy Novels
Each week, the International Spy Museum offers a new SpyCast featuring interviews and programs with ex-spies, intelligence experts, and espionage scholars. SpyCast is hosted by the Museum’s Historian and Curator, Andrew Hammond.
Shane’s favorite episode of SPYCAST – Author Debriefing – How to Catch a Russian Spy.
For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on the United States for the Russians – or so the Russians believed. Hear Naveed bring his unbelievable, yet true story to life. By trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, he pretended to sell out his own country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots.
Although he had no formal espionage training, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo he ended up at the center of a highly successful counterintelligence operation that targeted Russian espionage in New York City. With news about Russia’s disintegrating relationship with the United States a frequent headline and political hot topic, How to Catch a Russian Spy is the one-of-a-kind story of how one young man’s post-college adventure became a real-life US counter-intelligence coup.
On the True Spies Podcast produced by our friends at Spyscape (a must-visit if you find yourself in NYC.), Vanessa Kirby and Hayley Atwell get great spies to take them deep inside their greatest missions. The #1 podcast on Apple True Crime chart – Jun 2020
Shane’s favorite episode of the True Spies Podcast – S1 Ep 12 The Billion Dollar Spy.
Hayley Atwell tells the story of how Soviet engineer Adolph Tolkachev became one of the Cold War’s most prolific turncoats. For nearly a decade, CIA Operations Officer David Rolph was tasked with keeping the information flowing, right under the nose of the KGB. What would YOU do in David’s position?
Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode of the SpyMasters Podcast will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more – delving in to fact and fiction, past and present.
Antonia can be found on X @Tonisenior
Shane’s favourite episode of The SpyMasters Podcast
Classified! With Nigel West. What was it like to meet Anthony Blunt? How did the British Security Service try to stop Nigel West uncovering its secrets? And what qualities do you need to spend your career delving into the murky, shifting waters of intelligence?
Join Antonia Senior as she quizzes Nigel West about a lifetime writing about intelligence, and his brilliant memoir: Classified!: The Adventures of a Molehunter.
The Rest Is Classified takes you into the mysterious world of spies and espionage. Hosted by former CIA analyst now turned spy novelist, David McCloskey, and veteran security correspondent, Gordon Corera, they’ve experienced this field first-hand. It’s a world of shadows, shrouded in secrecy, but it affects every one of us. It’s time to bring it into the light.
Shane’s favorite episode of the The Rest is Classified. How Security Services Will React to the Fall of Assad. This podcast excels with its commentary and analysis on real life events.
What will western and Syrian spy services be focusing on following the fall of Bashar al-Assad? Is Russia and Iran’s withdrawal from Syria similar to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan? Were the security services predicting that the Assad regime would collapse so quickly?
Join David McCloskey and Gordon Corera as they answer all these questions and more in this emergency episode of The Rest Is Classified.
“Secrets & Spies” is a bi-weekly podcast about Spies, Terrorism, Geopolitics and intrigue.
Shane’s favourite episode – Ian Fleming With Jeremy Duns
Barbican Station, a monthly podcast produced by Spywrite’s Jeff Quest looking at the Mick Herron books in the Slough House series.
Shane’s favorite episode – Barbican Station is a fairly new spy book podcast, it is still under our surveillance, come back soon.
Spyhards – A weekly podcast decoding classic spy cinema.
Spy Movie Navigator – Cracking the Code of Spy Movies – Bond, M:I, Bourne, Best of the Rest-podcasts!
Shane’s favorite episode of the Spy Movie Navigator Podcast – Funeral in Berlin (1966) – Scene Analysis & Connections – Part 1
The Spy-Fi Guys Podcast covers spy fiction, spy fact, and everything in between.
