In this special episode Andrew and Phil speak with Shauna Kay, whose family of Australian based podcasts, The Vintage Read, has been a huge success in the last year or so. We have many friends and ideas in common, along with a shared fascination for all things literary, scandalous...and very often royal!

We don't promise to agree all the time but if our audiences find these conversations entertaining and stimulating we intend to do more of them.

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Team Sussex has pulled off its first overseas tour with a super high profile visit to Nigeria, where Harry attended numerous events linked to the Invictus games and Meghan met with business and media leaders, hosted female entrepreneurs and generally looked and behaved like a Princess on the road!

Is this a model for what 'non royal royalty’ looks like for the future - a refreshing multi racial alternative to the old fashioned, and all white, House of Windsor? Or is it a cynical marketing exercise for a couple battered by a year of falling ratings amid widespread criticism for producing boring podcasts and selling second rate jam?

We’re joined once again by Simon Vigar, royal correspondent for Five News and a veteran of many royal tours. The Nigeria trip generated some great headlines and photos in the USA, so does that make it a success? Then our friend Dai Davies, former head of royal security, comes back to the pod with a very different perspective. Dai is very critical of the security background to the trip - and not at all sure that it was morally justifiable either.

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Phil's sympathetic comments on Prince Harry's reasons for fighting the press didn't persuade all of our audience last week, and the comments were lively!

Andrew and Phil react to that and discuss the latest evidence of the deep rift in the British royal family - Harry's visit to London and the non-meeting between him and his sick father King Charles.

Then historian Emma Southon joins us for a hugely entertaining and informative conversation about ancient Rome. Not about the Emperors and Generals that fill the history books, but the women whose stories get told a lot less often. And some of them were scandalous indeed!

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Emma's book can also be found here...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Roman-Empire-21-Women/dp/0861548329/ref=monarch_sidesheet

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Clive Irving from the Daily Beast returns to the podcast to tell the story of the rise and fall of the British tabloid press, as Prince Harry’s ‘hacking’ case make its way through the London courts - with the possibility that Rupert Murdoch might finally be made to give evidence about it in a court of law.

The actor Hugh Grant has recently accepted a settlement from a Murdoch-owned company. He said that it was too expensive to carry on. And in the past - such as with Fox News in the USA - the Murdochs have tried to settle cases rather than see their patriarch give evidence under oath.

But could Harry be the man to change all that?

After a long career in newspapers, both tabloid and not, Clive tells Andrew and Phil that we maybe approaching a day of reckoning after decades of excess in the press!

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Not many books change the direction of an entire debate but, in 2023, Hannah Barnes’ ’Time To Think’ did just that. Through the testimony of whistle-blowers from inside the Tavistock hospital GIDS clinic, it revealed deep concern about the use of puberty blockers on gender-distressed children and how this approach - for which there is very little hard evidence - almost always led to further and irreversible hormone treatments and surgery.

When the Cass report into Britain’s treatment of gender questioning young people was welcomed by the UK Parliament last week, politicians from across the House of Commons praised Hannah for her work, and her book is credited with helping change the policy of the opposition Labour party (and possible next government) on this very divisive and controversial issue.

Hannah’s work explores how best to treat children who feel they are somehow living ‘in the wrong body’ and fear the changes of puberty. It asks whether the ‘instant affirmation followed by puberty blocking’ model is dangerous and might better be replaced by counselling and other therapies.

If you want to support what we do and help us grow this podcast we now have a Thank You option on YouTube for donations starting at 2 UK pounds - find it by clicking on the ’three dots’ next to the ‘download’ button.

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Andrew Gold joins us this week to talk about his brand new book and his life as a 'heretic' podcaster and reporter. In recent months Andrew has established himself a leading voice in the anti-woke free speech broadcasting community, talking provocatively to natural rebels such as Robbie Williams, David Baddiel, John McWhorter, Jon Ronson, Amanda Knox, Richard Dawkins and Helen Lewis. Whether it's the excesses of the trans-rights movement, the campaign to close down debate about Covid or the politics of the great royal rift, Andrew has something interesting to say.

For his fascinating new book he interviewed dozens of people with secrets - including cult members, fraudsters and violent prisoners - and he writes powerfully about how our ideas about secrecy, trust and exposure help define our world.

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We're thrilled to get an hour to talk with Simon Vigar, one of Britain's most experienced royal correspondents and writers, who is now the Royal Correspondent for 5 News.

Simon has had a ring side seat for all of the great royal dramas of the last two decades, and he brings an unusual level of sympathy and insight to the role. Amongst other things Phil and Andrew ask Simon for his views on the long term impact on Harry of the 'briefing wars' of the early 2000s when very unflattering stories about Diana and other royals were - it is alleged - traded by the Palace for favourable coverage of Charles and Camilla. 

Simon Vigar...

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If you want to support what we do and help us grow this podcast we now have a ThankYou option on YouTube for donations starting at 2 UK pounds - find it by clicking on the 'three dots' next to the 'download' button. 

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Andrew Lownie

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Phil Craig

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The Scandal Mongers

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Lady Colin Campbell joins Andrew and Phil again with an exclusive sneak peek at her new and explosive book on Meghan, Harry, the angry confrontations that shook the British royal family and Meghan's troubled family background. Based on her connections in the highest reaches of the British aristocracy - and her friendship with the Markle family - this is an uncompromising account of social climbing and what Lady Colin calls 'pathological narcissism' which challenges many of the stories told in the couple's Netflix series, to Oprah Winfrey and in Harry's book Spare.

Phil & Andrew on the Shaun Attwood show!...

(around 7 mins in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85n4uoW-Jfg&t=0s

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In a special sports themed episode Andrew and Phil are first joined by writer and former newspaper editor Chris Blackhurst to discuss his investigation into Manchester United - the world’ favourite football team - and how it has fared under the ownership of the American Glazer family, plus the wider role of big money in professional football (or ‘soccer' if you’re American!). Chris also talks about his fascinating work in the world of risk management.

Next up is Andrew Butler and Matt Russell from Tortoise Media who reveal an astonishing scandal of match fixing and intimidation in the normally sedate world of professional snooker.  Spotted: snooker’s fight against match fixing...

https://shows.acast.com/the-tortoise-podcast/episodes/spotted-snookers-fight-against-match-fixing

You can buy books from the authors we feature - including those discussed in this episode - in our own bookshop. All profit are shared between podcasters and independent booksellers. 

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Phil Craig

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The Scandal Mongers

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Why did Adolf Hitler's deputy and trusted confidante fly alone to an isolated

corner of Scotland at the height of World War Two?

Was it the act of a madman? Was it to conclude a secretly negotiated

peace deal with some of the most senior members of the British

aristocracy and - potentially - the royal family itself? Was

it to help senior conservatives launch a coup against Churchill? Or

was it all the result of a clever British intelligence plot? 

Whatever the true reason, Rudolf Hess himself never got to speak it

since for the rest of his life he was kept well away from journalists and writers.

John Harris has spent decades investigating the affair.  Here he joins Andrew and Phil to

discuss his latest discoveries and insights. 

You can buy books from the authors we feature in our own bookshop. All profit are

shared between podcasters and independent booksellers.

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/rudolf-hess-a-new-technical-analysis-of-the-hess-flight-may-1941-john-harris/92085?aid=12054&ean=9781803990231&

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/conspiracy-calamity-and-cover-up-the-truth-behind-the-hess-flight-to-scotland-may-10th-1941-john-harris/7072361?aid=12054&ean=9781914414978&

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Andrew Lownie

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Phil Craig

https://twitter.com/philmcraig

The Scandal Mongers

https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast

You can get in touch with the show hosts via...

[email protected] (place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).

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Theo X

Kerem Isik

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