The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast Scandal Mongers Podcast

Andrew and Phil go where many royal reporters fear to tread, to reveal the shocking sexual allegations and dirty financial dealings that are alleged to lie behind the tangled and scandalous lives of numerous famous royal names.
What has Andrew found our about the secret lives of the royals as he researched his numerous books?
Improving access to information about the rich and powerful - especially the British royal family - is a theme of this podcast, and so we are keen to learn more about the ways that oligarchs, corporations and Princes seek to prevent reporters and writes doing their jobs. David Hooper, one of London’s top lawyers, joins us to discuss the scandalous use of so-called SLAPPs - law suits meant to intimidate journalists and restrict their access to the truth.
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You can buy David's’ book and books from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more...
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Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
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THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
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Andrew Lownie...
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig...
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
The Scandal Mongers...
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org
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Award winning reporter and investigator Stephen Davis joins us to explore the world of fake news, conspiracy theory and the weapons used by the rich and powerful to prevent truth from coming out.
In an extraordinary career Stephen has investigated some major scandals, including the sinking of the ferry ESTONIA and BA Flight 149 and the Gulf War.
***We now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our work***
You can buy Stephen’ book 'Truthteller', and books from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/truthteller-stephen-davis/2006112?aid=12054&ean=9781925335897&
Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers
*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.
THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast/videos
Andrew Lownie...
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig...
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
The Scandal Mongers...
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).


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This week author and broadcaster Martin Bright joins Andrew and Phil to discuss what he believe is a little known but massive wartime cover up. As a new official report is due on the extent of Nazi crimes in the occupied Channel Islands during WW2, Martin believes that the suffering of Jewish and other prisoners on the islands has been hidden for many decades - partly because of official embarrassment at the amount of collaboration there.
In his book END OF THE BEGINNING Phil has written about another aspect of this story - the deportation of Jews from these British islands to Nazi death camps.
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.

You can buy books from the authors we feature in our own bookshop, along with thousands of others. All profit are shared between podcasters and independent booksellers.
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scandalmongers...
Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers

*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.
THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast/videos
Andrew Lownie...
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig...
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
The Scandal Mongers...
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
Production by
Theo X
Kerem Isik
Produced by
PodcastWorld.org


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The human dynamo that is Anne de Courcy returns to the podcast by popular demand after her brilliant interview about Princess Margaret and Tony Snowdon. This week she is speaking about one of her most successful books ‘The Viceroy’s Daughters’, the saga of Lord Curzon and his three talented, beautiful but often wayward daughters at the pinnacle of British and imperial high society in the first half of the 20th Century.
Overlapping love affairs, dalliances with dangerous young men and campaigning alongside the most charismatic politician of the age, Oswald Mosley, the former socialist turned fascist leader of Britain’s ‘Black Shirts’ in the 1930s - this is a story with everything and an incredible window into a glittering but also menacing world of privilege, power and decadence.
If you want to support what we do and help us grow this podcast, please hit the ‘Like’ button and we now also 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.

You can buy Anne's books and those of the other authors we feature in our own bookshop, along with thousands of others. All profit are shared between podcasters and independent booksellers...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-viceroy-s-daughters-anne-de-courcy/5024095?aid=12054&ean=9780753812556&

Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers

*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.
THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast/videos
Andrew Lownie...
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig...
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
The Scandal Mongers...
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
Production by
Theo X
Kerem Isik
Produced by
PodcastWorld.org


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This week we are lucky enough to speak with one of the most celebrated political writers of our age - Peter Pomerantsev, a former TV colleague of our Phil Craig. Peter had a ring side seat in Moscow for the rise of Putin and now advises leading politicians in Europe and the USA.
Born in the Soviet Union, and now a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, Peter has written two hugely influential books about the modern Russian state and how it exploits disinformation and propaganda to oppress and threaten its own people and its neighbours: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This Is Not Propaganda (2019).
His latest book, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (2024), is about Sefton Delmer, a British propagandist of the Second World War.
If you want to support what we do and help us grow this podcast, please hit the ‘Like’ button and we now also 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.
You can buy Peter’s books and those of the other authors we feature in our own bookshop, along with thousands of others. All profit are shared between podcasters and independent booksellers...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-win-an-information-war-the-propagandist-who-outwitted-hitler-peter-pomerantsev/7608309?aid=12054&ean=9780571366347&
Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers
*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.
THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast/videos
Andrew Lownie...
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig...
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
The Scandal Mongers...
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
Production by
Theo X
William Rousseau
Produced by...
PodcastWorld.org


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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.
If you want to support what we do and help us grow this podcast, please hit the 'Like' button and we now also 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. 
 
You can buy books from Andrew, Phil and the authors we feature in our own bookshop, along with thousands of others. All profit are shared between podcasters and independent booksellers...
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scandalmongers
 
Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you'd like to get scandalous with? We're here to help.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers...
 
*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.
THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast/videos
You can follow Shauna's channel here...
https://www.youtube.com/@thevintageread
Andrew Lownie...
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig...
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
The Scandal Mongers...
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
Production by
Theo X
Kerem Isik
Produced by...
PodcastWorld.org


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