The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
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The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
Conversations between a daughter, Jane Craigie, and her father, Iain Craigie. Iain spent a career in Intelligence from the late 1950s until the early 2000s, living in the UK, Cyprus, India, Turkey, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Labuan. The podcast covers the technology used, the methods of spying, the...
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Revisiting Cyprus after 50 years
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Iain Craigie and daughter Jane revisit Cyprus after over 50 years.
The island is now divided between the Greek and...
Diplomacy, Ukraine and the consequences of Putin
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In this episode, Jane Craigie and her Dad, Iain Craigie, look back into Iain's career in intelligence to hear his take on what is...
The early years - the life & natural world of Kingston on Spey
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In this episode, Iain Craigie remembers his early life - in the 1940s and ‘50s in a little North Eastern Scottish village, Kings...
Ankara, Turkey - 1989-91
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In this episode, Jane asks her Dad, Iain about his time in Ankara working for GCHQ. His post was senior, he was responsible for s...
Reflections on Hong Kong, China, politics, community and life
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A rich conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie covering Iain’s two postings in Hong Kong in the late 1950s...
Unlikely connections - the Hindu Kush and Pine Gap
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In this episode, Jane Craigie talks to Iain Craigie about the instability of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the coming together of...
Turkey in the 1970s - Istanbul, Gallipoli and the Black Sea coast
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This episode capture the conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, about three precious years based in Ista...
India 1969-70 And 2020 and Holidaying in Afghanistan
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In this episode, father and daughter, Iain and Jane Craigie talk about life in India from 1969-72, holidaying in India’s hill sta...
Buckie, Bletchley and Cyprus
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In this podcast, accompanied by the snoring of Lily, a 16-year-old Jack Russell, Jane explores the early part of her father, Iain...
Iain Craigie’s early life in Morayshire - 1939-1950s
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My Dad, Iain Craigie was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia where his father had worked as an engineer. In 1939, aged one, the family mo...
Saudi Arabia, training Saudi soldiers to set up their own intelligence capability
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In this conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, the discussion centres on Iain’s posting to Jeddah in Sau...
1950s posting to Hong Kong and Labuan
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In this episode Iain Craigie talks to daughter, Jane Craigie, about his posting to Hong Kong with a secondment to Labuan. It was...
The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
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In this first episode, Jane Craigie talks to her father, Iain Craigie, about his early life in Intelligence in the 1950s. His car...