The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
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Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Revisiting Cyprus after 50 years
19 Jul 2024
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Send a textIain Craigie and daughter Jane revisit Cyprus after over 50 years. The island is now divided between the Greek and Turkish ruled areas, af...
Diplomacy, Ukraine and the consequences of Putin
04 Sep 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Jane Craigie and her Dad, Iain Craigie, look back into Iain's career in intelligence to hear his take on what is happ...
The early years - the life & natural world of Kingston on Spey
29 Dec 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Iain Craigie remembers his early life - in the 1940s and ‘50s in a little North Eastern Scottish village, Kingston-on-...
Ankara, Turkey - 1989-91
08 Jun 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Jane asks her Dad, Iain about his time in Ankara working for GCHQ. His post was senior, he was responsible for staff at th...
Reflections on Hong Kong, China, politics, community and life
25 Oct 2020
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Send a textA rich conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie covering Iain’s two postings in Hong Kong in the late 1950s and lat...
Unlikely connections - the Hindu Kush and Pine Gap
24 Jul 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, Jane Craigie talks to Iain Craigie about the instability of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the coming together of the intern...
Turkey in the 1970s - Istanbul, Gallipoli and the Black Sea coast
07 Jun 2020
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Send a textThis episode capture the conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, about three precious years based in Istanbul in th...
India 1969-70 And 2020 and Holidaying in Afghanistan
17 May 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, father and daughter, Iain and Jane Craigie talk about life in India from 1969-72, holidaying in India’s hill stations, i...
Buckie, Bletchley and Cyprus
13 Apr 2020
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Send a textIn this podcast, accompanied by the snoring of Lily, a 16-year-old Jack Russell, Jane explores the early part of her father, Iain’s, life...
Iain Craigie’s early life in Morayshire - 1939-1950s
15 Mar 2020
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Send a textMy Dad, Iain Craigie was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia where his father had worked as an engineer. In 1939, aged one, the family moved back t...
Saudi Arabia, training Saudi soldiers to set up their own intelligence capability
01 Mar 2020
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Send a textIn this conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, the discussion centres on Iain’s posting to Jeddah in Saudi Arabi...
1950s posting to Hong Kong and Labuan
15 Feb 2020
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Send a textIn this episode Iain Craigie talks to daughter, Jane Craigie, about his posting to Hong Kong with a secondment to Labuan. It was in the lat...
The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
20 Jan 2020
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Send a textIn this first episode, Jane Craigie talks to her father, Iain Craigie, about his early life in Intelligence in the 1950s. His career starte...