Show Notes
The SpyMasters podcasts interviews all the best writers about spying: fact and fiction, historical and contemporary.
In this episode, Antonia Senior talks to the brilliant journalist, writer and documentary maker Tim Tate about the Spycatcher Affair. We talk about the culture of secrecy at MI5, about Thatcher's involvement, about Peter Wright, the molecatcher turned whistleblower.
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