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True Spies

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True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations.

Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby and Sophia Di Martino talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

We explore and investigate real life thrillers, mysteries and crimes – stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction.

These stories cover lies, murder, theft, sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.

You’ll meet experts from the top intelligence agencies including FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6 (SIS), KGB, GRU, Mossad and many others.

You’ll discover characters who spied because of money, ideology, coercion or just plain old ego.

Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare Pushkin Industries

Where There’s a Will searches for the surprising places Shakespeare shows up beyond the theatre.

Barry Edelstein, artistic director at The Old Globe, one of the country’s leading Shakespeare theaters, and co-host Em Weinstein ask what is it about Shakespeare that’s given him a continuous afterlife in all sorts of unexpected ways.

You’ll hear Shakespeare doing rehabilitative work in a maximum security prison, helping kids on the autism spectrum to communicate, shaping religious observances, in the Oval Office, and even at the centre of a deadly riot in New York City.

Join Barry and Em as they uncover the ways Shakespeare endures in our modern society, and what that says about him, and about us.