Greensill Capital is on the brink - until it lands a lifeline helping to run a vital payroll app for NHS staff. David Aaronovitch uncovers how the company secured taxpayer-backed schemes even as its risky finance model raised eyebrows in the corridors of power.

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent for The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

Clips used: Sky News, Channel 4 News.

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Calls, texts and elbow bumps. As a global pandemic takes hold, former prime minister David Cameron is now working for Greensill Capital, dusting down old contact books and making calls to old colleagues at the very top of a government in crisis. 

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

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How did a little-known Australian banker end up with the ear of a Prime Minister? David Aaronovitch recounts the improbable rise of Lex Greensill from a sugar cane farm in central Queensland to high-flying advisor with an office in 10 Downing Street.

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

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Behind the closed doors of Whitehall in central London Lex Greensill promised to revolutionise the way money moves through the highest levels of British business. Instead, he built an empire on financial smoke.

David Aaronovitch follows the trail of charm and deception leading from the City deep into the heart of the British government.

Presented by David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

This series was first released on 24 May 2021.

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As the bombs fell, Hans Globke stayed behind his desk, signing papers that sent Jews to their deaths across Europe. Oliver Moody uncovers how Globke’s quiet survival allowed him to emerge unscathed from the ashes of the Third Reich, and return to power in a new Germany.

Host: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times & The Sunday Times

Clips: AP, ARD, The Eichmann TrialEN.

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Hans Globke is the forgotten Nazi. The Times and The Sunday Times’s Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody traces the story of the unremarkable bureaucrat who quietly laid the legal basis for the Holocaust, positioning himself at the centre of a deadly web of influence - then came back to build the foundations of modern Germany 

Host: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times & The Sunday Times

Clips: BBC, PVT.Snafu, DailyMotion and ARD.

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Uncovering the story of Hans Globke, the Nazi bureaucrat who helped lay the legal basis for the Holocaust, then came back to build the foundations of modern Germany.

Presented by Oliver Moody, the Berlin correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times.

This series was first released on 4 March 2021.

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We meet CJ Davis’s mother Keisha McLeod and hear about the promising early years and the struggles of a young boy who, in his final 18 months, was sucked into an underworld of drug deals and gang crime. 

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, UK Drill YouTube channel

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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Lifting the lid on a national crisis of child criminal exploitation. Accounts from CJ’s girlfriend, Bella, and his mother give rise to questions: how did he come to be arrested for carrying a knife? What were CJ’s connections to drug dealing? And, crucially, where did the authorities miss opportunities to intervene?

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, UK Drill YouTube channel

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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We dive into the brutal reality of London’s gangland, where imprisoned but still powerful leaders Young Dizz and CB preside over the rival Beckton Boys and Woodgrange gangs. CJ’s name appears on a leaked police “gang matrix”, giving rise to the chilling question: Was CJ Davis a targeted victim of this deadly turf war?

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: UK Drill YouTube channel, Olympic YouTube Channel, BBC3

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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