SPYSCAPE+ To Release True Spies Podcast & The Razumov Files

 

True Spies — the global espionage podcast from SPYSCAPE Studios that’s racked up tens of millions of downloads has announced an ambitious new slate of programming. 

First, there’s an all-new season of True Spies. Now hosted by actress Sophia Di Martino (Loki, Flowers), this season features some of True Spies’ deepest reportage to-date, beginning with a series of episodes about one of the most consequential and notorious figures of the turn of the millennium: Osama Bin Laden. 

Featuring interviews with assorted CIA operatives, foreign affairs journalists, and more highly tuned-in individuals from an assortment of global perches, this three-episode arc tells the unvarnished truth about Bin Laden’s rise to power as the leader of Al-Qaeda, how he regularly thwarted assassination attempts, and how, following the tragic events of 9/11, a female border guard was the first domino to fall in the long hunt for the world’s most infamous terrorist.

The new season of True Spies debuts on November 8. 

 

Also exclusive on SPYSCAPE+ is The Razumov Files, an ambitious audio reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s classic spy thriller Under Western Eyes starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey, Brave New World). By approaching the 1917 Russian Revolution from the perspective of an investigative podcast, The Razumov Files is a radical reinvention of spy fiction, melding genres to bring this classic story to the attention of a global audience used to binging on Crimetown and Serial. Imagine The Lives Of Others told in the style of The RFK Tapes, laced with vivid characters and powerful themes only a master like Conrad could conjure. 

The Razumov Files debuts on November 23 on SPYSCAPE+.

 

 Sophia Di Martino is an English actress, writer, and director who can be seen in a breakout role in the U.S. with Loki for Disney+/Marvel. Di Martino stars opposite Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, and Richard E. Grant. The second season is now in production.

Di Martino is known for her role in the dark comedy series Flowers (Channel 4/Netflix) in which she starred opposite Olivia Colman. Her other credits include The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (StudioCanal)  Yesterday (Universal Pictures), Sweetheart (BBC Films/BFI) and Into The Badlands (AMC).

Di Martino has written and directed two short films Scrubber and The Lost Films of Bloody Nora and a web series entitled Self Tapes. She also directed Halfbreed for Channel 4 Blaps.

 

 Jessica Brown Findlay will next be seen as the lead in the film adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Hanging Sun, premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival as well as the highly anticipated television series Flatshare (Paramount +). She recently led both Brave New World, streaming on Peacock and Sky Atlantic, and acclaimed series Harlots (BBC/Hulu) alongside Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville. She can currently be seen in Munich: The Edge Of War (Netflix) and in John Crowley’s Life After Life (BBC).

 

 Her impressive body of film and television credits include; The Banishing, The Outcast (BBC), Jamaica Inn (BBC), Winter’s Tale, Victor Frankenstein, The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, and the Morrissey biopic, England Is Mine. Jessica played Ophelia to Andrew Scott’s Hamlet in Robert Icke’s Olivier nominated production which transferred from the Almeida to the West End.

 

 SPYSCAPE is a podcast subscription service. 

 

Subscribers to SPYSCAPE+ - the recently launched podcast subscription offering from SPYSCAPE Studios - will have exclusive access to the first episode beginning on November 1. SPYSCAPE+ offers early access to True Spies episodes, an ad-free listening experience, and exclusive bonus content, such as the soon-to-launch True Spies Debriefs in which real spies provide background info alongside True Spies episodes. 

After a free three-day trial, subscriptions begin at $3.99 / month or $24.99 / year. Learn more about SPYSCAPE+ here. 

SPYSCAPE is a fast-growing edutainment brand at the intersection of culture and technology that creates stories and experiences based around secrets. SPYSCAPE Studios publishes premium content, including podcasts such as True Spies hosted by OSCAR® nominee Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Pieces of a Woman) and two-time Laurence Olivier Awards winner Hayley Atwell (Captain America, Mission: Impossible); The Spying Game hosted by three-time BAFTA winner Rory Bremner; The Great James Bond Car Robbery hosted by Elizabeth Hurley (Austin Powers, The Royals); and the forthcoming SPYSCAPE Files hosted by Broadway and TV superstar Emmy Raver-Lampman (Hair, Hamilton, The Umbrella Academy).