The global financial system almost collapsed in 2008. Afterwards there was understandable anger at the behaviour of major private and national banks. A series of investigations resulted in many traders going to prison as a result of the alleged manipulation of the key interbank LIBOR rate.

But were the right people punished? Award winning reporter Andy Verity thinks not and in his book RIGGED he makes a powerful case that ‘fall guys’ were set up and persecuted for crimes they never even committed - in fact for crimes that didn’t even exist. And that some of the people prosecuted were the whistle blowers who had first tried to alert the outside world to what was happening to the LIBOR rate.

Meanwhile - he alleges - much more senior figures in banking and politics who gave instructions to ‘rig’ the system and help drive the global economy to the brink have never been held to account.

You can buy’s Andy’s book - and thousands of others - in our new Scandal Mongers online bookstore. All profits shared between independent booksellers and podcasters like us.

https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scandalmongers

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In our first episode Andrew raised shocking sexual abuse allegations about Lord Louis Mountbattten - one of the most famous and most powerful royal celebrities of all time. This week Andrew and Phil reveal new evidence from named witnesses about Mountbatten. They also explore the famously ‘open marriage’ he enjoyed with his wife Edwina.

Shining a light on the sexual politics (and many hypocrisies) of that age, they ask if the Mountbatten’s notorious bed hopping may have played a role in huge events of state such as the partition of India.

You can buy Andrew’s bestselling book on the Mountbattens - and thousands of others - in our Scandal Mongers bookshop and help support us and a range of small, independent, profit-sharing booksellers in the UK...

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-mountbattens-their-lives-loves-the-sunday-times-bestseller-andrew-lownie/1587301

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From nowhere East Germany came to dominate international swimming and athletics in the 1970s and 80s - an astonishing sequence of sporting success based upon a secret state-run doping programme that involved the notorious STASI secret police and the most senior political leaders. Many of the East German sporting starts of that time suffered sever health consequences, especially the young female athlete given huge - in fact experimental - doses of steroids and male sex hormones to boost their physical performances.

Despite this some remain intensily proud of what they achieved; one of many paradoxes explored in Katja Hoyer’s fascinating new book about East Germany, the country of her birth. Hoyer adds colour and compassion to a story often told in stark black and white terms, revealing lives lived in a lost world that was much more complex than most Westerners every understood.

You can buy her book - and thousands of others - in our Scandal Mongers bookshop and help support us and a range of small, independent, profit-sharing booksellers in the UK.

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beyond-the-wall-east-germany-1949-1990-katja-hoyer/7149638?aid=12054&ean=9780241553787

For those interested, Phil produced a documentary on this subject a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9CUGBVH-Q&t=351s

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Giles Milton is an internationally best selling author and the host of a top ten history podcast looking at the strange disappearance of the famous British naval diver Commander Lionel Crabb, and the subsequent high level cover up, in 1957 at the height of the Cold War...

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cover-up-ministry-of-secrets/id1621750804

Drawing on new information, he discusses with Phil and Andrew the various theories about what happened to Crabb and if the body discovered the following year actually was him, or not!

You can buy’s Giles’ books - and thousands of others - in our new Scandal Mongers online bookstore. All profits shared between independent booksellers and podcasters like us...

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/checkmate-in-berlin-the-first-battle-of-the-cold-war-giles-milton/2776077?aid=12054&ean=9781529393170

Andrew Lownie

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The Greatest Briton, the saviour of his nation and perhaps of democracy itself, the Lion who roared defiance in the face of a Nazi juggernaut - all these things have been said of Winston Churchill. But throughout his long and turbulent life Churchill was always a deeply controversial and divisive figure - and was involved in scandals aplenty.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft has written a very powerful ‘warts and all’ portrait which tries to balance the good and the bad. Other Churchill biographers, notably Andrew Roberts, have said he goes too far into negativity. But does he? And does it do any harm to point out that a leader who is great at one time may not be great all the time?

You can buy Geoffrey’s book, or the very different Andrew Roberts one - in our own online bookstore. All profits are shared with independent booksellers and podcasters like us (rather than going to Amazon!) In fact you can buy thousands of books there!

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/churchill-s-shadow-an-astonishing-life-and-a-dangerous-legacy-geoffrey-wheatcroft/5832452?aid=12054&ean=9781847925732

Andrew Lownie.

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Nick Wallis is a reporter who became part of the story, playing a key role exposing one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in recent British history.

Hundreds of innocent small businesspeople were remorselessly persecuted because of a computer fault in a saga that casts an unflattering light on the Post Office, the police, the court system and other key UK institutions.

You can buy Nick’s book here, at our brand new Scandal Mongers bookshop. It’s part of an alliance of independent booksellers that makes commission for us and other podcasts and bookstores rather than Amazon! In fact you can buy tens of thousands of books through this portal, at great prices.

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-great-post-office-scandal-the-fight-to-expose-a-multimillion-pound-it-disaster-which-put-innocent-people-in-jail-nick-wallis/7310677?aid=12054&ean=9781739099206

Andrew Lownie.

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Phil Craig.

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With Guest Laura Thomson.

It’s one of British history’s greatest open and shut cases. An angry, controlling man identified (even by himself) at the scene of a savage crime who then disappears, never to be seen again.

But writer Laura Thompson thinks we might be getting this story wrong. In a fascinating conversation with Andrew and Phil she reveals her controversial new theories and argues that the ‘myth’ of Lord Lucan, and the terrible murder he will always be associated with, both merit a thorough rethink.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Different-Class-Murder-Story-Lucan/dp/1788543831

Andrew Lownie.

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Phil Craig.

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Britain will soon witness the crowning of King Charles III, with Queen Camilla by his side. It’s an ending to the story of a 50 year on-off-on-again relationship that few would have predicted amid the scandals of the Charles-Diana marriage, and especially after the publication of the notorious ‘Camillagate’ tape in 1992.

So is Camilla a society intriguer, determined to work her way towards the crown at any cost, or is she a woman driven by duty, devoted to a man who clearly needs her and prepared to wait decades for her chance of happiness?

We’re joined by one of Britain’s top royal reporters, Rob Jobson. Rob knows Camilla well and has insider sources so good that he broke the story of her upcoming marriage to Charles in 2005.

Rob’s new book on King Charles is available in April.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-King-Charles-Monarch-Revealed/dp/1789467047/ref=sr_1_7?qid=1679826002&refinements=p_27%3ARobert+Jobson&s=books&sr=1-7&text=Robert+Jobson

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The Profumo affair is the scandal that has everything: sex parties in high places, Soviet agents, political resignations, dramatic court cases, drugs, deaths, cover ups and endless tabloid excitement, all at a critical moment in the Cold War and when, in London, the sixties are beginning to swing.

But after so many years how much is here still to learn about the tangled relationships between John Profumo, Christine Keeler, Stephen Ward, Mandy Rice-Davies and Yevgeny Ivanov? And were other very highly placed men protected by an Inquiry so opaque that key documents are still kept under lock and key and will be for many decades to come?

Our guest Stephen Dorril has written The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair (with Anthony Summers), and is author of MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations, which remains the definitive account of the UK’s post-war secret intelligence service.

Purchase Stephen Dorill's book below...

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1857027019/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1

Andrew Lownie.

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The assassination of Senator ‘Bobby' Kennedy - widely tipped to become US President in 1968 - was an event that shook and possibly changed the world.

Sirhan Sirhan was arrested at the scene, just feet away from Kennedy and with a literal smoking gun in his hand. He’s been incarcerated ever since. Case closed? Or is it.

The LAPD and FBI investigations into the killings have long been regarded as sloppy, insufficient and prejudiced against alternative explanations, even to the point of ignoring or intimidating some key witnesses. Author and filmmaker Tim Tate has spent many years working on the case and has unearthed powerful evidence that Sirhan was not acting alone, could not have fired the fatal shots - and may even have been part of a wider plot that feels like something a Hollywood screenwriter would dream up.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Assassination-Robert-Kennedy-Conspiracy-Investigation/dp/1839012730

Andrew Lownie.

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