The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast

Phil has just returned from a week Northern Ireland - a place where he worked during ‘the Troubles’. It prompted him to think about the peace process there, today’s fashionable support for the pro-IRA...

3 Aug 20251h 1min

Is there a peace process underway between Prince Harry and his father? Recent photographs suggest that there is. But inside the feuding royal households, just who is backing peace and who isn’t? And ...

20 Juli 20251h 10min

Phil is a self confessed ‘cricket tragic’ and he’s not the only one. This week Tim Wigmore joins him to reveal the real story of Test cricket - the international version of the game. It’s a tale pack...

6 Juli 20251h

Phil returns to the secret side of WW2 with the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. As writer Clare Mulley explains, she was the only woman to re...

22 Juni 202546min

This week we look - for the first time - at a novel and Phil is joined by writer Gill Hornby.The Elopement is the third book in a trilogy exploring the world of Jane Austen’s family and the first in t...

8 Juni 202551min

Mok O’`Keeffe returns as co-host and, together with Phil, explores the complex subject of privacy with Tiffany Jenkins, whose new book Strangers and Intimates makes the case that we need to restore th...

25 Maj 202557min

Phil is joined again by the lawyer David Hooper, who has a new edition of his book Buying Silence coming out. David is one of the world’s great campaigners for open, affordable justice and a fierce op...

18 Maj 202547min

Phil is joined by campaigner and writer Julie Bindel, the first person to investigate the grooming gang scandal that has so shocked Britain over the last two decades, and which seems to be continuing....

11 Maj 202559min