Matt Bevan
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8,263 appearances
76 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2026
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Matt Bevan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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on the lands of the Awabakal and Gadigal people.
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In 1983, envelopes without any return address started showing up in the inboxes of European newsrooms.
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In each of them was a cassette tape and a note which said, Dear Sir, herewith I send you a taped telephone conversation between Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan.
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The conversation took place during the Falklands War.
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I regret I have to remain anonymous.
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The Falklands War had happened about a year earlier and this is what the tape sounds like.
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bad quality and phone ringing sound indicate that this was recorded via a crossed line.
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Back then damaged phone wiring could sometimes cause you to hear other people's phone calls.
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It's very difficult to understand what they're saying, but the anonymous sender helpfully sent a transcript.
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Publicly, Reagan and Thatcher seemed to be very close allies.
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But according to the transcript of this phone call, they were furious at each
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Reagan was telling Thatcher that she overreached by sinking an Argentine naval ship.
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Thatcher was demanding that the US join her in exacting harsh punishment on Argentina for invading the
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news organizations who received a copy weren't really sure what to make of it.
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One Italian newspaper apparently reported on the contents of the tape, but the editor of a Dutch newspaper who also received a copy was concerned that it might be a hoax, and he took it to the US embassy in The Hague.
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A few months later, more papers reported on the recording, now saying that it was a hoax perpetrated by the Soviet KGB.
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but it wasn't done by the KGB.
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is Andy Palmer, guitarist for the British anarchist punk band Crass.
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So, it wasn't really a conversation between Reagan and Thatcher.
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It was basically the 1980s version of a deepfake.
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