2025’s Shocking Disclosures (Part 1)
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2025’s Shocking Disclosures (Part 1) The Black Spy Podcast 225, Season 23, Episode 0005 This week’s Black Spy Podcast sees host Carlton King and regular thrupple contributor Fergus Esack evaluate 2025 and the stories that have occurred during the year. 2025 will be remembered as a year of pressure, polarisation and profound questioning, and the Black Spy Podcast offers a measured yet unflinching evaluation of a world in flux. Across its episodes, the podcast reflects on how debates around gender continued to evolve, often framed by cultural anxiety, political opportunism and...
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Christmas Must Buy Books
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Christmas Must Buy Books The Black Spy Podcast 224, Season 23, Episode 0004 This week’s Black Spy Podcast sees host Carlton King step away from headlines and hard geopolitics to offer listeners something more seasonal – a carefully curated list of books he believes make powerful, thought-provoking Christmas stocking fillers, each chosen for its ability to inform, challenge and inspire. At the heart of the episode is Carlton’s own memoir, Black Ops – The Incredible True Story of a (Black) British Secret Agent, which he frames not as self-promotion, but as an essential...
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The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 2)
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The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 2) The Black Spy Podcast 223, Season 23, Episode 0002 Episode 2 – The Anxiety Myth Part II: Power, Identity & the Business of Fear In this episode, the investigation deepens. Carlton King and Dr. Rachel Taylor explore how power structures—from governments to global tech platforms—exploit anxiety to shape behaviour, control populations and drive profit. If fear is currency, who are the brokers? Why do modern societies appear more anxious despite unprecedented comfort and safety? Is the rise in anxiety actually a...
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The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 1)
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The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 1) The Black Spy Podcast 222, Season 23, Episode 0002 Episode 1 – The Anxiety Myth: What If Everything We Think We Know Is Wrong? Is anxiety really a mental health crisis—or have we misunderstood the entire phenomenon? In this week’s Black Spy Podcast, Carlton King and Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor dismantle the assumptions, narratives and commercial interests shaping our modern understanding of anxiety. Why are anxiety diagnoses skyrocketing in the West while resilience appears to be collapsing? Has society...
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The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 1)
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The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 1) The Black Spy Podcast 222, Season 23, Episode 0002 Episode 1 – The Anxiety Myth: What If Everything We Think We Know Is Wrong? Is anxiety really a mental health crisis—or have we misunderstood the entire phenomenon? In this week’s Black Spy Podcast, Carlton King and Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor dismantle the assumptions, narratives and commercial interests shaping our modern understanding of anxiety. Why are anxiety diagnoses skyrocketing in the West while resilience appears to be collapsing? Has society...
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Ex Senior MI6 & Scotland Yard Special Branch Officer Identifies The Most Realistic Cop and Spy Movie and TV Shows
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Ex Senior MI6 & Scotland Yard Special Branch Officer Identifies The Most Realistic Cop and Spy Movie and TV Shows The Black Spy Podcast 221 Season 23, Episode 0001 The Most Realistic Police & Spy Films – Carlton King Calls It Out In this electrifying episode of The Black Spy Podcast, former Senior Scotland Yard Special Branch and MI6 Officer Carlton King, reveals which police and spy movies and TV dramas actually come closest to the real world of national security. After 30 years of political policing, counter-terrorism, international secret intelligence operations and...
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What was (Prince) Andrew’s Crime? (Part 2)
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What was (Prince) Andrew’s Crime? (Part 2) The Black Spy Podcast 220, Season 22, Episode 0010 This week host Carlton King's thrupple of journalist and celebrity marketing agent, Firgas Esack, Neuroscientist, Dr. Rachel Taylor and of course, The Black Spy, himself Carlton King, continue their discussion into the geo-politics of the fall of Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family. The thrupple discuss Prince Andrews "crime" and the juxposition of treatment based on class. The thrupple also discuss: Andrew's quest for more money. King Charles’ reaction, The British...
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What was (Prince) Andrew’s Crime? (Part 1)
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What was (Prince) Andrew’s Crime? (Part 1) The Black Spy Podcast 219, Season 22, Episode 0009 This week and next week, host Carlton King, brings his thrupple of journalist and celebrity marketing agent, Firgas Esack, Neuroscientist, Dr. Rachel Taylor and of course, The Black Spy, Carlton King, himself as they discuss the geo-politics of the fall of Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family. The thrupple discuss Prince Andrews crime. His quest for money. King Charles’ reaction, Public reaction Epstein. Foreign intelligence agency activity National Unity in the UK Gender, class and...
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Venezuela - Trump’s end of Empire War (Part 2)
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Venezuela - Trump’s end of Empire War (Part 2) The Black Spy Podcast 218, Season 22, Episode 0008 This week and next week host Carlton King asks if President Trump is planning an invasion of Venezuela, in whatever format, to effect ‘regime change’ there. Carlton goes through the options for this coming aggressive action. The likelihood of it taking place. The spoils of such a war, The US and Venezuelan military options seemingly in place, The limitations of those options. The assistance that Venezuela might expect from major world powers and why, The feelings likely to be stirred...
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Venezuela - Trump's end of Empire War? (Part 1)
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Venezuela - Trump’s end of Empire War (Part 1) The Black Spy Podcast 217, Season 22, Episode 0007 In this, and next week's episode of the Black Spy Podcast, host, Carlton King, asks if President Trump is planning an invasion of Venezuela - in whatever format - to effect ‘regime change’. Carlton goes through the options for this coming aggressive action including: The likelihood of the attack taking place. The spoils of such an attack, The US and Venezuelan military options seemingly in place, The limitations of those options. The assistance that Venezuela might expect from major...
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The Black Spy Podcast 224, Season 23, Episode 0004
This week’s Black Spy Podcast sees host Carlton King step away from headlines and hard geopolitics to offer listeners something more seasonal – a carefully curated list of books he believes make powerful, thought-provoking Christmas stocking fillers, each chosen for its ability to inform, challenge and inspire.
At the heart of the episode is Carlton’s own memoir, Black Ops – The Incredible True Story of a (Black) British Secret Agent, which he frames not as self-promotion, but as an essential corrective to the narrow way British intelligence history is usually told. From there, the discussion broadens into history, politics, race, psychology and power. Titles such as Der Unvergessene Krieg and Winston Churchill’s Young Winston are explored as windows into how wars are remembered, mythologised and used to shape national identity.
Carlton places particular emphasis on works that reclaim obscured histories, including Great Men of Colour by Joel Rogers, UNESCO’s monumental History of Africa, They Came Before the Mayflower by Dr Ivan Van Sertima, and Black Athena by Martin Bernal. Together, these books challenge Eurocentric narratives and ask listeners to rethink who is written into – and out of – world history.
The episode also highlights contemporary relevance through Male Menopause – The Hidden Crisis by Dr Rachel Taylor and Carlton King, linking mental health, masculinity and social silence, while Rupert Alison’s The Branch offers insight into the often-misunderstood machinery of British intelligence.
To close, Carlton turns to dystopian classics – George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World – arguing they are no longer warnings about the future, but commentaries on the present. He rounds off by recommending the enduring moral clarity found in the works of Charles Dickens.
It’s an episode that treats books not as escapism, but as tools for awakening – perfect gifts for curious minds.
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