Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son  
Podcast: The Audio Long Read
Rating: Explicit Published On: Wed Aug 13 2025
Description: Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from May: for the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story By Shaun Walker. Read by James Faulkner. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod