Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal's Season 2 "The State vs Shahnaz Gul" premieres with a recounting of the 1960s saga that led to Mustafa Zaidi printing flyers calling Shahnaz  a Pakistani Christine Keeler. It's the title that would stick with her forever. 

Newspaper headlines voiced by Mina Malik

Ayub Khan's portrait is courtesy archives of The Mirror (1968 Anniversary Issue)

Mentioned on the episode:

Netflix - The Crown
Season 2 Episode 10 "Mystery Man"
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80025678

BBC One - The Trial of Christine Keeler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ct7b

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A trailer for the upcoming second season of Notes on a Scandal: The State vs Shahnaz Gul. 

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A trailer for the upcoming second season of Notes on a Scandal: The State vs Shahnaz Gul. 

Credits:
English / Urdu headlines by Mina Malik, a writer and poet based in Lahore who dreams of treading the boards.

Recitation of Mustafa Zaidi's verses, courtesy Zaheer Alam Kidwai

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In the season finale, we discuss the various influential men who were reportedly connected to the case, and why everyone cast around for suspects. We discuss the theories around Mustafa's death and Shahnaz's involvement, and why almost every theory has one gaping hole that can't be explained.

 

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The police investigate — and arrest a suspect in the death of Mustafa Zaidi. Later in the episode, we analyse the various theories of how Mustafa’s death could have been murder.

This episode features verses by Mustafa Zaidi, recited by author and translator Bilal Tanweer.

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 We retrace, hour by hour, the events leading up to Mustafa Zaidi's death on October 12, 1970, and discuss a significant, highly-debated comment made by Mustafa in the days before he passed away.

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We look at Shahnaz Gul and Mustafa Zaidi's relationship based on Mustafa Zaidi’s perspective, as seen through anecdotes and statements by his friends. We also revisit the crime scene -- fifty years later. 

This episode features Mustafa Zaidi's poetry, recited by Sheema Kermani.

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Advisory: This episode includes mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.

We take a look at Shahnaz Gul and Mustafa Zaidi's relationship from the  perspective and statements of Shahnaz Gul in the days and months after the scandal broke out into the open. 

This episode features Mustafa Zaidi's poetry as recited by Sheema Kermani. At the end of the episode, you can hear a clip from a poetry recital featuring Mustafa Zaidi, courtesy Zaheer Alam Kidwai. 

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We introduce Shahnaz Gul, the mysterious and much-maligned woman at the centre of the events of Mustafa Zaidi's death. In the late 1960s, Shahnaz and her husband Saleem moved to Karachi... and into the arms of Pakistan's cosmopolitan, swinging elite.

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In 1970, phones begin ringing across Karachi as word spreads that Mustafa Zaidi is dead. Fifty years later, Tooba and Saba find the house where Mustafa died.

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