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Hello, it's Vasha Cummings here. I'm

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an editor at Tortoise, which is the

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home of Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed, and many

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more award-winning investigative podcasts. I'm

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here to tell you about Tortoise

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Investigates, where we curate the best

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of our chart-topping investigations in one

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place. Everything from

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extraordinary tales of deception to a

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suspicious killing to one mother's decades-long

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fight with the police. Just search

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for Tortoise Investigates wherever you get

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your podcasts. Hello,

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it's Tominy from Tortoise, the

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newsroom behind Hoaxed. If

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you enjoy this show, we think you'll love The

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Spy Who, a new podcast from

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Wandry. The life of

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a spy is anything but glamorous. It's

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a place of paranoia and

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infiltration, sabotage and manipulation. From

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Wandry, the network behind British Scandal,

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Doctor Death and Ghost Story, comes

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The Spy Who. A

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new narrative podcast series exploring covert spy

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stories that you were never meant to

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hear, and revealing the

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incredible true tales of operatives playing

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to very different rules. Narrated

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by Game of Thrones actor

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Indira Varma and Homeland's Raza

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Jaffrey, each season goes

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deep into the real-life story of

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a special agent, unearthing

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daring missions, double-crosses and

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dangerous liaisons. Like

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Dushko Popov, The Spy Who Inspired

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007, or

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A-Men Dean, The Spy Who Betrayed

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Bin Laden. To give you a

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feel for Wandry's new series, here's a

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short clip. Dushko

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Popov wakes from his alcohol-drenched

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slumber. Gestapo! Open

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up! It's 1937,

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and Popov studying law in

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Freiburg, Nazi Germany. Open

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up! Popov

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drags himself out of bed. He's

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in his mid-twenties with short black hair. Yawning,

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he unlocks the door. Four

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Gestapo officers barge past. One confronts

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Popov as the others ransack his

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flat. Duska, Popov, you

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are under arrest. On what charge?

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The Gestapo officer punches Popov in

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the stomach. Popov crumples under the blow.

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Before he can recover, two officers grab him.

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They drag him outside to a waiting car,

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throw him into the vehicle's boot, and slam

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the door shut. He's in his way.

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Ooh! Popov snaps

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awake as cold water hits his face.

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He's tied to a chair in a Gestapo

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interrogation room, and he's been there for days.

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Popov's interrogator tosses the metal bucket

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aside and leans in close. Admit

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it. You're a

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communist! That's ridiculous! You can't think...

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Listen, my father... He

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owns coal mines and factories. Why

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would I support communism? But

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I'm a Yugoslav citizen, and I want a lawyer.

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The interrogator takes a step back. If you're

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not a communist, why are you dating one?

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Popov smirks. Because she's pretty. The

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interrogator's face flashes with anger. A

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split second later, Popov sees his

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fist hurtling towards his face.

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A train blasts its whistle as it thunders

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through the swivel. On

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the road running alongside the tracks, a

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Mercedes burns rubber. The man at

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the wheel checks he's keeping up with the train. He's

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Johnny Yedson, Popov's best friend.

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He's a wealthy German with a pencil

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moustache, and he's on a rescue mission.

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He's a wealthy German with a pencil moustache. Yebesin

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screeches to a halt outside Basel

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train station, just as Popov exits

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the station. Dushko! Popov

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runs over. Johnny,

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what are you doing here? We can't have you

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taking a taxi after all you've been through. But

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how did you know I'd be here?

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Yebesin smiles. Who do you think got

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you out? I got wind

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that you'd been arrested and called your father. He

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got the Yugoslav government to step in. Popov

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climbs into the passenger seat. They

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were going to ship me out to a concentration camp.

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Well, you're here now. No!

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Seriously. I

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thought I was done. Don't

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be silly. I owe you. Good.

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You can pay for dinner. I'm being serious. I owe

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you. Yebesin smiles. He

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won't forget

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that promise. And

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when he calls it in, Popov will

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be transformed into one of the greatest

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secret agents of World War II. From

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Wondery, I'm Indra Varma

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and this is The Spy Who.

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Meet the veneer of the everyday, lurks

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the realm of the spy. It's

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a dark, dangerous world, full

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of shadowy corners, sinister

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motives and corrupted

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morals. A

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place of paranoia and

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infiltration, sabotage and manipulation.

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Every week, The Spy Who will

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take you inside that twilight realm.

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You'll hear true stories about the work

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of the World Intelligence Services and

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follow spies on daring missions

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packed with danger, deceit

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and double-crosses. And

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we begin by retrieving the files on

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Dusko Popov. He's

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a Serbian playboy who outfoxed Nazi

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Germany while living a life

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full of cocktails, women and

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casinos. And

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he also helped inspire the most

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famous fictional spy of all time,

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James Bond. What

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you're about to hear are dramatized reconstructions

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based on real events and

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the information that's been made

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public. But

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remember, in the shadow realm

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of the spy, the full

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story is rarely clear. This

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is Spy Who Inspired

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007. Episode

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1. A Friend Among

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Furs. To

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learn more, search and follow The Spy

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Who on the Wondery app or

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wherever you listen to podcasts. Or

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you can binge full seasons of

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The Spy Who ad-free with Wondery

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Plus.