The Salisbury Poisonings: 14. The Hunt for the Poison
When Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with a nerve agent, police faced one of the most complex investigations in their history. They had to trace a weapon which they could neither see nor smell,...
15 Nov 202415min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 13. Science in Secret
When Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were taken to hospital, the emergency services tried to piece together what had happened to them. We hear how they questioned whether it was a coincidence that t...
13 Nov 202420min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 12. The Poisoned Detective
One of the first police officers to go inside Sergei and Yulia Skripal’s house after they were poisoned with a nerve agent was Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey. He then became critically ill himself, af...
8 Nov 202413min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 11. Saving the Skripals
When the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on a bench in Salisbury, it was Sunday shoppers who first stepped in to help. Amazingly, two of them were highly qualified m...
5 Nov 202416min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 10. The Spy Next Door
Who is Sergei Skripal? The former Russian spy was poisoned by Novichok in March 2018, but until now very little has been known about him, his life in England, and his mysterious past. His friend and...
31 Okt 202420min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 9. An act of war?
An in-depth interview with the Head of Counter Terror Policing at the time of the poisonings, Neil Basu. He relives how dangerous the investigation was for the officers involved, what it took to find ...
27 Okt 202420min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 8. What is Novichok?
Andrea Sella, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University College London, answers the big questions about Novichok. The deadly nerve agent killed Dawn Sturgess and poisoned many more in Salisbury a...
25 Okt 202420min
The Salisbury Poisonings: 7. Russia responds
As the inquiry prepares to move from Salisbury to London, Andy Howard and Marie Lennon review a momentous week of evidence, which saw the emergency services interrogated and the communication between ...
23 Okt 202416min
