Listen Now: The Spy Who
Bunga Bunga
Wondery
4.3 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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.
Search and follow The Spy Who wherever you listen to podcasts, or binge entire seasons early and ad-free on Wondery+ on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Beneath the veneer of the everyday lurks the realm of the spy. |
| 0:04.0 | It's a dank murky world full of dark corners, sinister motives, and corroded morals. |
| 0:09.2 | From wondery comes a new podcast, The Spy Who, revealing the invisible work of the world's intelligence |
| 0:15.2 | services, unearthing daring missions packed with danger, deceit, and double-crosses. |
| 0:20.8 | Each season hosts Indira-Varma and R Raza Jaffrey introduced shadowy figures who risked everything to achieve their mission. |
| 0:27.5 | Like Oleg Lyleen, the spy who sabotaged the KGB, or Nure Inayat Karn, the spy who was a princess. We're about to play you a clip from the first season |
| 0:38.0 | exploring the life of the spy who inspired 007. |
| 0:42.0 | If you'd like to hear more follow the spy who wherever you listen to podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Or you can binge full seasons early and ad free with Wonder Plus on Apple |
| 0:49.7 | Podcasts or The Wonderie app. Dushko Popov wakes from his alcohol-drenched slumber. |
| 1:04.0 | Gestapo! |
| 1:05.0 | Open up! |
| 1:06.0 | It's 1937, and Popov studying law in Freiburg, Nazi Germany. |
| 1:12.0 | Open up! |
| 1:14.8 | Pop off drags himself out of bed. |
| 1:17.1 | He's in his mid-20s with short black hair. |
| 1:20.4 | Yawning he unlocks the door. |
| 1:23.0 | Four Gestapo officers barge passed. |
| 1:25.0 | One confronts Popov as the others ransack his flat. |
| 1:29.0 | Dusko Popov, you are under arrest. |
| 1:31.0 | On what charge? The Gestapo officer punches |
| 1:35.1 | Popov in the stomach. Popov crumples under the blow. Before he can recover, |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -351 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.