Thatcher's Favourite Fraudster | Ragtrade to Riches | 1
It’s the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher’s Britain is all about making it big if you work hard enough, and boy, does Asil Nadir get the memo. He transforms small textile firm, Polly Peck into a FTSE 100 gian...
19 Mars 202552min
The IRA Heiress | What Rose Dugdale Did Next | 4
Journalist Sean O'Driscoll met the IRA Heiress herself. He would cycle to her Dublin care home to chat over tea and biscuits. Though he went easier on the digestives after he found out Rose was the ar...
12 Mars 202527min
The IRA Heiress | The Heist | 3
The police are after Rose. Her face is all over the papers. If authorities are going to try and stop her, Rose is determined to use whatever time she has left wisely. It’s time to stage Ireland’s bigg...
5 Mars 202550min
The IRA Heiress | Most Wanted | 2
Rose and her IRA comrades plan The Troubles’ first aerial bombing. But she’s having a hard time getting the others to trust her. With her plummy English accent, she’s the last person you’d expect to j...
26 Feb 202550min
The IRA Heiress | From Debutante to Defendant | 1
Oxford graduate, aristocrat, heiress – Rose Dugdale has it all. So her path from millionaire’s daughter to IRA bomb-maker shocks British society. And Dugdale’s ideals means she doesn't just reject her...
19 Feb 202549min
Julian Assange | The Weird World of WikiLeaks | 4
If you think your job sucks, spare a thought for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Ball. He spent three months living and working with Julian Assange on the leaks of hundreds of thousands of doc...
12 Feb 202539min
Julian Assange | Operation Hotel | 3
Assange seeks asylum at London’s Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid facing charges abroad. It’s supposed to be a safe haven, but it begins to feel like a prison. He started this fight for press freedom. Now,...
5 Feb 202551min
Julian Assange | Enemy of the State | 2
An alliance with international press turns Assange into a public figure. But soon, he ends up on the front pages for all the wrong reasons.Listen to British Scandal on the Wondery App or wherever you ...
29 Jan 202551min
