ClandesTime

ClandesTime

Podcast series with Tom Secker featuring film and book reviews and discussions and investigations into military and intelligence involvement in popular culture.

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July 31, 2025

The rise of former CIA officers working as consultants to the film and TV business is one of the cultural...

The post Subscribercast #100 – The Latest in the CIA and Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Godzilla movies vary enormously, from goofy to serious, from smart to utterly moronic.  In this subscribercast we look at the...

The post Subscribercast #99 – Godzilla vs Godzilla Minus One first appeared on Spy Culture.

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London Bombings, a terrorist mass murder that I investigated for many...

The post ClandesTime 282 – The 7/7 London Bombings Revisited first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The Lockerbie bombing, which brought down Pan Am 103 and killed 270 people, is one of the most disturbing events...

The post ClandesTime 281 – Conspiracy Theories: The Lockerbie Bombing first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Zero Day is the latest in CIA-supported Netflix spy dramas, only this time it’s cyberterrorism rather than Arab hijackers or...

The post Subscribercast #98 – Zero Day first appeared on Spy Culture.

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I offer some thoughts on the 90s thriller The Fugitive, honing in on the Tommy Lee Jones character and his...

The post Subscribercast #97 – The Fugitive first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The Pentagon’s Hollywood offices claim that they don’t pitch, they don’t try to push certain content into the culture industries....

The post ClandesTime 280 – How the US Military Pitches Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

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We check in with the recently-released season two of Netflix’s The Recruit, a show supported by the CIA, DOD and...

The post Subscribercast #96 – The Recruit Season Two first appeared on Spy Culture.

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How are government employees portrayed in popular movies? In this episode we review Civil Servants on the Silver Screen, an...

The post ClandesTime 279 – Civil Servants on the Silver Screen first appeared on Spy Culture.

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In 1982 an anti-anarchist pro-SAS movie supported by the real SAS and based on the Iranian embassy siege was released,...

The post ClandesTime 278 – The Final Option (or Who Dares Wins) first appeared on Spy Culture.

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For this end-of-year subscriber podcast I take a look at the 1990s cult classic Point Break. A simple tale of...

The post Subscribercast #95 – Point Break first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Over the last decade, data has become the new resource or commodity underpinning the failing global economy. In this episode...

The post ClandesTime 277 – How Big Data is Ruining Football (and possibly the planet) first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The murders of Biggie and Tupac remain unsolved. In this episode we examine the film City of Lies, which ties...

The post ClandesTime 276 – City of Lies first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Netflix’s The Diplomat is cutting edge State Department propaganda, as well as being a Homeland replacement set in and around...

The post Subscribercast #94 – The Diplomat Season Two first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The Union is the latest big spy film to hit streaming and has proven a success despite being a 10...

The post ClandesTime 275 – The Union first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The topic of Israel and Hollywood tends to attract racists and conspiracy theorists but for this month’s subscribercast I put...

The post Subscribercast #93 – Israel and Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

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I hate reality TV but it’s cheap, nasty and has taken over the TV entertainment industry. In this episode we...

The post ClandesTime 274 – The US Military and Reality TV first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Most of you will have read or heard some of the coverage of the relationship between the military and video...

The post Subscribercast #92 – The US Military and Video Games first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The government involvement in Hollywood marches on so in today’s episode we examine two films that were released this year,...

The post ClandesTime 273 – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare vs My Spy: The Eternal City first appeared on Spy Culture.

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In the many years I’ve been doing this I’ve got a lot of suggestions and recommendations from listeners. In this...

The post Subscribercast #91 – Listener Recommendations first appeared on Spy Culture.

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