London Falling Part 1: The Fall - The Saturday Story

In this special two part podcast, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, Gabriel Pogrund, is joined by the preeminent investigative journalist and author Patrick Radden Keefe.

On a cold November night in 2019, 19 year old Zac Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury London apartment. Police concluded it was suicide, however, under Radden Keefe's forensic microscope together with Gabriel's own Sunday Times investigation, serious questions are raised about what really happened that night, and whether it was suicide after all. It's a tale rooted in London's criminal underground, and now the subject of Radden Keefe's latest book, London Falling.

In this episode we hear about how a young man, born into a wealthy family, become embroiled with a notorious London gangster.

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Host: Gabriel Pogrund - Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times

Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Executive Producer: Kate Ford

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Photo: The Times, design by Cecilia Tombesi.

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