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 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.

So, please get informed and don't miss these discussions by subscribing to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to LinkedIn

Contact Dr.. Rachel via Substack

And contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

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To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

To read:

Male Menopause the hidden crisis

By Dr. Rachel Taylor & Carlton King

Search ISBN-13 : 979-8276993768

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 symptom of social fragmentation, digital overstimulation and identity disruption rather than individual pathology? And what role does race, class and lived experience play in how anxiety is labelled, treated or ignored?

Carlton draws on decades in state security to examine how fear is manufactured, manipulated and monetised. Dr. Taylor challenges the neurological oversimplifications used to justify a multi-billion-pound mental-health economy. Together, they ask whether anxiety is being systematically weaponised against the public.

If anxiety is an evolutionary alarm system, what happens when it is hijacked? More importantly—can we reclaim it?

This episode confronts one unsettling truth: perhaps anxiety isn't a personal failure, but a rational response to an irrational world.

So, please get informed and don't miss these discussions by subscribing to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to LinkedIn

Contact Dr.. Rachel via Substack

And contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

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To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

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 medicalised normal human emotion to the point where stress, fear and discomfort are now rebranded as pathology?

Dr. Taylor brings cutting-edge neuroscience to the table, challenging listeners to rethink the brain's threat systems, the role of trauma, and the possibility that anxiety may not be a "disorder" at all but a misinterpreted survival mechanism. Carlton interrogates the political, economic and cultural drivers behind the anxiety industry: who benefits from defining millions as "unwell"?

Is the modern world genuinely more dangerous, or have we simply lost the tools to cope? And crucially—if anxiety is not what we've been told—what does that mean for treatment, medication and human agency?

This episode asks one radical question: What if anxiety isn't the enemy—but the message?

So, please get informed and don't miss these discussions by subscribing to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to LinkedIn

Contact Dr.. Rachel via Substack

And contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

Instagram@carltonkingauthor

To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

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 elite government close-protection missions around the globe, Carlton points to those productions that show the truth behind the mythology.

This week, Carlton lifts the lid on which movies/series provide top class entertainment whilst keeping it real.

Using his lived experience undercover, protection and intelligence operations the UK, to Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas, North and South, Carlton highlights the best such programmes from around the world.

From 60's & 70's classics to slick contemporary offerings, Carlton explains why some make the grade whist other are down right over the top fantasies.

Most importantly Carlton explains how shows such as The Wire can keep it real whilst being explosive, yet others although understated, can reach those same heights.

This episode doesn't just provide you with a list of shows and movies, much more importantly, it provides listens with tips as to why Carlton professionally rates the types of movies and films he recommends and where other go woefully wrong.

Its real spies. Real policing. Real insight. Only on The Black Spy Podcast.

So, please get informed and don't miss these discussions by subscribing to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to LinkedIn

Contact Dr.. Rachel via Substack

And contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

Instagram@carltonkingauthor

To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

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 public's reaction

The different treatment handed out to the police, as a none protected 'working-class' state organisation, as opposed to the protected middle and upper-class organisations such as the BBC and the Royal family.

BBC Fake (jazzed up) News

The Epstein affair in general - Who's intelligence asset was he? Who wanted his wealth, his connections.

Foreign intelligence agency activity

National Unity in the UK

Gender, class and wealth.

All of these points are discussed in detail from the above mentioned medical, national security and journalistic mass media directed perspectives.

So, please listen to get informed and don't miss these discussions by subscribing to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to LinkedIn

Contact Dr.. Rachel via Substack

And contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

Instagram@carltonkingauthor

To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

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 wealth.

All of these points are discussed in detail from the above mentioned medical, national security and journalistic mass media directed perspectives.

So, please get informed and don't miss these discussions by subscribing to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to LinkedIn

Contact Dr.. Rachel via Substack

And contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

Instagram@carltonkingauthor

To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

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 in Latin America that could make any coming war very costly for the US.

Carlton also examines the geo-politics surrounding the potential conflict.

The lack of judicial procedure in Trump's actions to date, murdering Venezuelan sailors on the high seas under the pretext of combatting drug trafficking without any evidence to confiem this.

And president Trump's willingness to authorize the killing of such civilians with no more consideration than swatting a fly.

Once again these are must listen episodes that educates whilst entertaining, to provide listeners with a real understanding to today's world.

So, please don't forget to subscribe to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to Linked In

To contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

Instagram@carltonkingauthor

To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h

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 world powers and why,

The feelings likely to be stirred in Latin America that could make any coming war very costly for the US.

Carlton also examines the geo-politics surrounding the potential conflict.

The lack of judicial procedure in Trump's actions to date,

The murder by US forces of Venezuelan sailors on the high seas under the pretext of combatting drug trafficking, albeit no evidence is even being sought buy the US Navy to substantiate this assertion.

And president Trump's willingness to authorize the killing of such civilians showing no more consideration than swatting a fly on a sunny afternoon.

Once again these are must listen episodes that educates whilst entertaining, to provide listeners with a real understanding of today's world.

So, please don't forget to subscribe to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you never miss another fascinating episode.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to Linked In

To Contact Dr Rachel Taylor go to substack

To contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following:

To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast

Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com

Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast

Facebook: Carlton King Author

Twitter@Carlton_King

Instagram@carltonkingauthor

To read Carlton's Autobiography:

"Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent"

Click the link below:

https://amzn.eu/d/fmzzq9h