The Service
The Service is a documentary podcast hosted by Guyon Espiner and John Daniell. It follows Daniell's shocking discovery on his tenth birthday that his mother had been a spy. Together, they investigate her secret past and uncover a story that might expose New Zealand's biggest Cold War secret.
Episodes
What to Listen to Next: The Agency
From the team who brought you The Service, John Daniell and Guyon Espiner return with a new podcast from RNZ and Bird of Paradise Productions called The Agency. The series follows Kit Bennets, a young officer with New Zealand's SIS who is recruited into the CIA, and describes the operation he ran against Russian military intelligence at the height of the Cold War.Listen to the first episode of The
New Revelations
Guyon and John break radio silence with new revelations about SIS operations, the reactions from Iran and India and news about surveillance of one of New Zealand's most renowned writers. And Guyon re-thinks his conclusions.
To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.Four months on from its release, John Daniell and Guyon Espiner return with a special episode of The Ser
More Raids Confirmed
More raids. More embassies. More breaking of international law. Ongoing investigations have uncovered other break-ins by New Zealand's SIS to bug and steal from embassies in Wellington, teaming up with the CIA as well as MI6.To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.Ongoing investigations have uncovered other break-ins by New Zealand's SIS to bug and steal from em
The Raid
In the final episode, we close in on the details around the joint MI6/SIS operation targeting the Czechoslovakian Embassy. Finally, someone who was on the raid breaks their silence. But there's a twist...To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.Wadestown, Wellington: 1986. A group of MI6 and SIS intelligence officers break into the Czechoslovakian Embassy to steal cod
The Club
The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance with roots that go all the way back to World War II. It's a tight club - but just what does membership demand of us? To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.As the Iron Curtain came down across Europe at the end of World War II and allies united against Nazism splintered into Capitalist and Communist camps, a fraternity of in
A Full Court Press from the KGB
In the mid-1980s, New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy is attracting international attention. With the ANZUS alliance in crisis, the KGB see an opportunity.To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.The world lived under the shadow of the nuclear bomb through the 1980s and New Zealand briefly took centre stage in the debate when it went nuclear-free in 1986. It angered the
The Wilderness of Mirrors
New Zealand has Cold War spy stories we know about - and some we don't. Even now, it's hard to get people to talk. The big question is: who do you trust?To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.Throughout the Cold War a front-line of sorts stretched around the world, with intelligence officers in the trenches. It reached even to New Zealand, as the two nuclear superpo
One Night in Wadestown
On his 10th birthday, John Daniell's Mum tells him she used to work for the SIS. But that's just the start of the secrets...To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.John Daniell grew up in a house where spying was the family business. His mum had worked for New Zealand's Security Intelligence (SIS) before he was born and his step-dad worked for them throughout hi
Introducing: The Service
Just before he died, John Daniell's step-dad told him a secret from his time as a spy. A secret that was possibly New Zealand's biggest of the Cold War and that has never been revealed. Until now.To see more images and details about the series, vist the website here.In the midst of the Cold War, first John Daniell's mum and then his step-dad worked for New Zealand's Security Intelligence
