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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Britain's Agent | Historical

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Professor James Crossland of Liverpool John Moores University uncovers the extraordinary life of a British diplomat-cum-spy in Bolshevik Russia - Robert Bruce Lockhart. A tale of doomed love, assassination, failed coups and bad reputations. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. James Crossland is the author of Rogue Agent: From Secret Plots to Psychological Warfare, the Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockhart" (Elliot & Thompson, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.

0:07.6

We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.

0:13.2

From the Ice Bowl to the Great Heathen Army.

0:15.8

And the head of Oliver Cromwell.

0:17.6

The same head they kept on a pike for three years?

0:20.1

Yep, all here on History Dispatches.

0:22.7

New episodes every weekday.

0:24.6

Find out more at history dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app.

0:30.5

At the International Spy Museum, we often get the inside scoop on little-known stories from the shadow world.

0:37.9

There's this underground spy war on American campuses.

0:41.6

But here's a secret. You don't have to visit the museum to hear these stories.

0:46.6

These are the most consequential discussions and decisions you will have in your career.

0:51.2

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts every Tuesday and discover how global intelligence

0:57.0

shapes our everyday lives.

1:00.6

This is True Spies, the podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all

1:08.9

time.

1:10.1

Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.

1:16.6

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

1:20.6

What do they know?

1:22.6

What are their skills?

1:24.6

And what would you do in their position? I'm Rihanna Needs and this is True Spies

1:31.7

from Spyscape Studios. Britain's agent. Vladimir Lenin once said that there are decades where

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