In the Shadows: Recent Episodes
In the Shadows
In the Shadows dives deep into the shadowy and often obscured world of national security and intelligence. Each week, I will explore historic topics or create explainers linked to current affairs that have made the headlines this week.
Most people are aware of climate change - whether they believe it poses a threat is another question. For this episode, I spoke with Alexander Verbeek who broke down the issue of climate security. Alexander is a dutch environmentalist, the founder of the Institute for Planetary Security, a former diplomat, and a public speaker who has spent many years working on issues relating to security and the climate crisis. He is also the policy director at the environment and development resource centre in Brussels.
We discuss how the security threat of climate change will evolve in next decade or so, how climate and security intersect, as well as what we can do to feel just a little bit of hope in these dark times.
For this episode of In the Shadows, I spoke with Dr Helen Fry who has recently published a book on MI9 called MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two. We spoke about the origins of this service, whether it was successful, and some of the interesting things that Dr Fry uncovered.
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Welcome to In the Shadows, a podcast about spying, war, and security where we aim to make tricky yet important subjects make sense. This week, I spoke to Professor Rory Cormac from the University of Nottingham, about covert action. We discussed what it is, why countries engage in it, and the challenges of researching such a secretive subject.
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Rory can be found on Twitter with the username @RoryCormac.
In the Shadows is a podcast that is trying to make spying and security issues make sense by dissecting difficult and complex topics into easy, bitesize pieces.
Nina Jankowicz joined me for this episode to discuss everything to do with disinformation - what it is, how to spot it and the impact it can have on a country.
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