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We're thrilled to get an hour to talk with Simon Vigar, one of Britain's most experienced royal correspondents and writers, who is now the Royal Correspondent for 5 News.
Simon has had a ring side seat for all of the great royal dramas of the last two decades, and he brings an unusual level of sympathy and insight to the role. Amongst other things Phil and Andrew ask Simon for his views on the long term impact on Harry of the 'briefing wars' of the early 2000s when very unflattering stories about Diana and other royals were - it is alleged - traded by the Palace for favourable coverage of Charles and Camilla.
Simon Vigar...
https://twitter.com/simonvigar5
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Lady Colin Campbell joins Andrew and Phil again with an exclusive sneak peek at her new and explosive book on Meghan, Harry, the angry confrontations that shook the British royal family and Meghan's troubled family background. Based on her connections in the highest reaches of the British aristocracy - and her friendship with the Markle family - this is an uncompromising account of social climbing and what Lady Colin calls 'pathological narcissism' which challenges many of the stories told in the couple's Netflix series, to Oprah Winfrey and in Harry's book Spare.
Phil & Andrew on the Shaun Attwood show!...
(around 7 mins in)
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In a special sports themed episode Andrew and Phil are first joined by writer and former newspaper editor Chris Blackhurst to discuss his investigation into Manchester United - the world’ favourite football team - and how it has fared under the ownership of the American Glazer family, plus the wider role of big money in professional football (or ‘soccer' if you’re American!). Chris also talks about his fascinating work in the world of risk management.
Next up is Andrew Butler and Matt Russell from Tortoise Media who reveal an astonishing scandal of match fixing and intimidation in the normally sedate world of professional snooker. Spotted: snooker’s fight against match fixing...
https://shows.acast.com/the-tortoise-podcast/episodes/spotted-snookers-fight-against-match-fixing
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Why did Adolf Hitler's deputy and trusted confidante fly alone to an isolated
corner of Scotland at the height of World War Two?
Was it the act of a madman? Was it to conclude a secretly negotiated
peace deal with some of the most senior members of the British
aristocracy and - potentially - the royal family itself? Was
it to help senior conservatives launch a coup against Churchill? Or
was it all the result of a clever British intelligence plot?
Whatever the true reason, Rudolf Hess himself never got to speak it
since for the rest of his life he was kept well away from journalists and writers.
John Harris has spent decades investigating the affair. Here he joins Andrew and Phil to
discuss his latest discoveries and insights.
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We're joined by another of Andrew and Phil's journalistic hero's - Richard Norton Taylor. Richard has uncovered dozens of scandals in his time working for London newspapers, and turned several of them into successful plays. Here he speaks about his work on a range of stories and decades battling Britain's 'secret state'. He also comments on the case of Julian Assange, currently facing extradition to the USA from Britain in a case that many believe threatens the rights of investigative journalists.
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Jason Evans joins Andrew and Phil to reveal a shocking story of medical negligence and official delay - in Britain and numerous other nations - that tragically resulted from the desire to treat dangerous illnesses with better drugs.
For many years blood donations - often collected for money in the USA - were used to make products to treat people with haemophilia and other illnesses. But so careless were the practices at every level, and so poor the quality controls, that blood from those infected with diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS got mingled into thousands of doses. As a result many people were infected with life altering and life shortening diseases, including Jason's father. Although there is now an official Inquiry about to report in the UK, the campaign for justice and compensation has dragged on for decades.
Before speaking to Jason, Phil and Andrew work through some of the audience repossess - positive and negative - to our last episode with royal expert Valentine Low.
Jason's campaign can be reached here...
https://www.factor8scandal.uk/jason-evans
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This was meant to be the second of our two spy episodes, and it still is - but first Andrew and Phil were able to speak with our friend, the VERY well connected royal reporter Valentine Low, about the speculation that's swirling around the prince and princess of wales? Phil also references this article of his about the psychological roots of our interest in monarchy.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-kings-touch/
Then writer Robert Verkaik joins to explore the dark and controversial story of the dead British spy Gareth Williams - the notorious 'body in the bag' case from 2010. Was this a Russian 'hit', an imaginatively staged suicide or the result of a bizarre sex game gone very wrong?
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'Spy mania' was at its height in the early 1960s when a junior clerk in the Admiralty was revealed to be spying for the Soviet Union, after he had been drugged and then secretly photographed by KGB agents in Moscow while being raped by at least two men.
At a time when sexual relationships between men were illegal, John Vassall was jailed and publicly humiliated, while tabloid newspaper ran stories such as ‘How to Spot a Homo’.
Writer Alex Grant joins Andrew and Phil to discuss his book on John Vassall, and what his life story tells us about both espionage and the social history of the 1960s.
You can buy Alex's book, and books from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more. Andrew’s own book on the spy Guy Burgess is also available here.
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According to the court reports last week, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, pocketed more than £1 million from an allegedly corrupt financier acting on behalf of a Turkish millionaire. And nobody can say why. It’s one of many obscure stories of cash flowing into royal coffers that our Andrew - Lownie - has been trying to investigate for years.
In this special episode Andrew shares some of his theories about what has been happening here - and asks questions about Prince Andrew’s time as a ’trade envoy’. Just who was he representing on these expensive foreign trips? His country or his own family? We also discuss the wider issues of royal finance and the public’s right to know about it.
Andrew has spent many frustrating months battling for access to royal and other official documents about Prince Andrew and others, but Britain’s Freedom of Information system does not appear to be very helpful.
Later in the episode we talk to the guru of freedom of information (in Britain and elsewhere) about all this - ex BBC journalist Martin Rosenbaum.
Martin Rosenbaum has also written a guide book to your rights to information
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freedom-Info...
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When famous crime writer Agatha Christie suddenly vanished without trace in December 1926 it triggered one of the greatest tabloid sensations of the age. Behind it lay a twisted story of love, loss and love affairs that’s worthy of one of her greatest novels.
Returning to the podcast for the third time, writer Laura Thompson peels back the layers to explain exactly what happened - and why this was the most important month of Agatha Christie's life and work.
You can buy Laura's excellent biography of Agatha, and books from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more.
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When famous crime writer Agatha Christie suddenly vanished without trace in December 1926 it triggered one of the greatest tabloid sensations of the age. Behind it lay a twisted story of love, loss and love affairs that’s worthy of one of her greatest novels.
Returning to the podcast for the third time, writer Laura Thompson peels back the layers to explain exactly what happened - and why this was the most important month of Agatha Christie's life and work.
You can buy Laura's excellent biography of Agatha, and books from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/agatha-christie-a-mysterious-life-laura-thompson/2300271?aid=12054&ean=9781472269560&
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In the second episode in this themed week, Canadian author Antony Anderson joins Phil and Andrew to discuss one of the greatest military and diplomatic disasters of the British Empire.
In 1956 a new government in Egypt took control of the Suez canal and Britain - along with France - wanted it back. With the help of Israel a war was secretly planned and then executed - amid global outrage. Britain and France were seen to be acting as old fashioned imperialist bullies in an age of supposed de-colonisation and self determination.
The resulting crisis split the British commonwealth, caused a deep rift between London and Washington and cast a shadow over the government of British Prime Minster Anthony Eden. It took a gifted Canadian diplomat - Lesley Pearson - to help restore international relations and calm the conflict.
Phil is writing a book about the end of the Second World War in which stories of British ‘imperial muscle memory’ will feature prominently, which he discusses with Antony.
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At the start of a themed week this is one of the most celebrated imperial scandals of them all - the riotous misbehaviour of a wealthy expatriate community living in colonial Kenya which leads to a famous - and famously unsolved - murder in 1941. Later this week we get more political with a look at the famous ’Suez crisis’ of 1956.
In the so-called ‘Happy Valley case’ Sir Henry “Jock” Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, a notorious ‘rake’, in the language of the time, who had been having an open love affair with Sir Henry’s wife, Lady Diana Broughton. Within the infamously promiscuous Happy Valley set it was widely believed that Sir Henry was relaxed about his wife’s relationship - but was he? He was acquitted in a court case that many felt bad flawed - so who else might have pulled the trigger that fatal night?
Author James Fox joins Andrew and Phil to discuss the case. James wrote the definitive book ‘White Mischief’ which was later made into a successful movie.
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This week writer Anne de Courcy joins Andrew and Phil to discuss her extraordinary biography of Lord Snowdon, Antony Armstrong Jones, who was married to Princess Margaret for 18 tumultuous years.
A gifted photographer, designer and charity entrepreneur, Lord Snowdon was also a notorious womaniser before, after and during his marriage. His relationship with Margaret veered between affection and bitter recrimination, even cruelty, whilst he cut a dashing swathe through British high society, charming his way out of numerous perilous social and sexual intrigues.
Anne’s ’semi authorised' biography of Snowdon exposed many new secrets and received huge acclaim. One reviewer said 'The amorous Snowdon was remarkably helpful for this life; the result is jaw-droppingly revealing.
You can buy Anne's books at the Scandal Monger’s own bookstore, along with thousands of others. All profits are shared between independent booksellers and podcasters.
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In January 1889, when Rudolf, the crown prince of Austria, was found dead in an Imperial hunting lodge alongside his 17 year old mistress, Baroness Mary Vestera, it triggered a monumental cover up, a crisis that shook the royal families of Europe, and changed the direction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the world’s great powers. Some believe it even helped set the scene for the outbreak of the First World War by removing the reformer Rudolf from the line of succession and replacing him eventually with the very different Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered the conflict.
Writer Lucy Coatman lives and works in Vienna where she is writing a new book on the case. She’s already discovered many new documents that reveal the strange psychological and sexual dynamic between the doomed lovers. Lucy’s work reveals an extraordinary world of aristocratic decadence, infidelity, drug use, mental illness and venereal disease. Did Mayerling witness a suicide pact or a murder? Was Rudolf a manipulator, drawing an inexperienced teenager into his strange melancholic obsessions? Or was Mary herself wrapped up in a morbid fantasy life and a willing actor in this lethal drama?
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A packed episode featuring two of Britain’s most determined investigators.
Andy Webb returns to the podcast to tell Andrew and Phil of new developments in his long-running battle to uncover the truth behind Martin Bashir’s interview with Diana, Princess of Wales. Newly released BBC emails - some heavily redacted - reveal the scale of a 25 year cover up and shine new light on the case, including the disgraced reporter’s belief that his critics are motivated by professional jealousy or even racism. Andy also has some harsh words on the conduct of the BBC governors. If they had asked tougher questions at the time, could the course of Diana’s life have been changed for the better?
We then meet ex MP Norman Baker, one of the most dogged investigators to have ever worked in Britain’s House of Commons. He’s led a thirty year battle to uncover the truth about BA flight 149, which flew into Kuwait during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of that country in 1990, leaving its passengers to become hostages. Was the flight allowed to land despite the obvious dangers in order to insert a special forces team? Bakes believes that he can prove that it was.
Norman also discusses his investigative work on the hugely controversial death of government WMD scientist David Kelly, and his belief that the investigation into it was badly compromised, and his probes into royal finances and MP’s expenses.
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We have two scandalous stories this week, but on a similar theme.
Firstly our friend Dai Davies - former top royal protection officer - returns to the podcast to talk about how his former colleagues in the Metropolitan police have been dealing with royal scandals recently, and especially their interest (or lack of!) in certain allegations involving Prince Andrew, the disgraced Duke of York, and his past life as a trade envoy. Are we really all equal before the law in modern Britain?
Then Andrew and Phil are joined by American fingerprint expert Pat Wertheim to discuss one of the greatest unsolved royal mysteries of all time - the murder of multi millionaire Harry Oakes in the Bahamas during the Second World War, whilst the Duke of Windsor - former King Edward VIII - is governor of the island. Is the Duke, along with others close to the case, involved in unusual financial dealings? Why did he treat the murder investigation in such an unorthodox manner? And why was an innocent man almost sent to the gallows whilst the obvious suspect walked clean away?
It’s a colourful tale worthy of Agatha Christie and, although the mystery has still not been solved, Pat and Andrew share their theories!
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According to Princess Diana, Prince Charles once asked her in a towering bad temper: ‘Am I to be the only Prince of Wales not to be allowed a mistress?’
Taking their cue from the landed aristocracy, British royals have for centuries ‘married for the dynasty’ then engaged in semi-official affairs - or even long term parallel relationships - with others in their circle. Those marrying into the family were expected to ‘understand’ and not make a public fuss, and many did (unlike Diana!).
Our guest this week, Tom Sykes, has a very good reason to care about this story. He’s a writer and the royal correspondent for The Daily Beast - and he thinks that his own grandmother, Camilla Sykes (nee Russell) may have had a long term love affair with the King. In fact members of Tom’s family going back several generations have been closely involved with the British royals at their wildest and naughtiest - including Edward VII when he was a most scandalous Prince of Wales. Hearing their stories provides a unique window into the social history of Upper Class Britain.
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We begin with the latest from the Post Office Scandal that we first covered with investigative journalist Nick Wallis 8 months ago. In recent weeks a powerful
ITV drama has made the behaviour of the Post Office - and the cruel treatment of its employees - front page news in the UK. It’s truly blood boiling!!
Then writer Neil McKenna joins Andrew and Phil to reveal a story of 19th Century sexual, political, royal and legal intrigue - the infamous ‘Cleveland Street Affair’ which shook
the British upper classes and prompted fevered speculation all around the world. Could it be that a senior member of the royal family was a patron of London’s most notorious gay brothel?
With incredible details of the society of this time - and the way that wealth and privilege could guarantee legal protection - Neil lays out all the details of a saga that’s as fascinating as it’s shocking.
You can buy Neil's books and other books by the authors we feature here in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more.
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With so many new revelations concerning the Jeffrey Epstein scandal we begin this episode with Andrew and Phil’s assessment of what it all means for Prince Andrew and his hopes of returning to public life (and what it may also mean for our Andrew’s book on the Prince!)
Top magazine editor and author Tina Brown then joins us from New York to discuss all things royal. Tina has had an incredible career running, amongst other things, Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk. Some of the world’s best reporters have worked for her and she helped create a model for ambitious, high end and beautifully illustrated contemporary writing. Her books on the British royal family are impeccably sourced and packed with insights from real insiders, along with Tina’s own trademark ‘smarts’.
She tells Andrew and Phil where the various feuding factions of the Windsor clan stand in America and the wider world, and where she thinks King Charles is taking the family. And she delivers some typically sharp pen portraits of Andrew, Fergie, William, Kate, Meghan and Harry!
You can buy Tina's books - and many thousands more - at our very own bookstore, which profits shared between podcasters and independent booksellers.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-palace-papers-the-sunday-times-bestseller-tina-brown/7008572?aid=12054&ean=9781529158809&
With so many new revelations concerning the Jeffrey Epstein scandal we begin this episode with Andrew and Phil’s assessment of what it all means for Prince Andrew and his hopes of returning to public life (and what it may also mean for our Andrew’s book on the Prince!)
Top magazine editor and author Tina Brown then joins us from New York to discuss all things royal. Tina has had an incredible career running, amongst other things, Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk. Some of the world’s best reporters have worked for her and she helped create a model for ambitious, high end and beautifully illustrated contemporary writing. Her books on the British royal family are impeccably sourced and packed with insights from real insiders, along with Tina’s own trademark ‘smarts’.
She tells Andrew and Phil where the various feuding factions of the Windsor clan stand in America and the wider world, and where she thinks King Charles is taking the family. And she delivers some typically sharp pen portraits of Andrew, Fergie, William, Kate, Meghan and Harry.
You can buy Tina's books - and many thousands more - at our very own bookstore, which profits shared between podcasters and independent booksellers.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-palace-papers-the-sunday-times-bestseller-tina-brown/7008572?aid=12054&ean=9781529158809&
And we now have a store where you can obtain your very own scandalous gifts!
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers
Andrew Lownie.
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Phil Craig.
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https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
Scandal Mongers is available to watch on yuoube
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
[email protected] (place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
This show is part of the PodcastWorld.org network. For your own show please get in contact via the email address above.
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