Tristan Redman
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1,489 appearances
30 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Tristan Redman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the heavily choreographed world of international diplomacy, this is all unusual, because the dinner guest is someone in particular.
He's called Abdullah Senussi, and he's the same man we heard about right at the start, a wanted terrorist.
So now we have two off-the-books meetings with this same guy, one just before Sarkozy's visit and one soon after.
Now, this man, Abdullah Senussi, is important in Libya.
He's Gaddafi's brother-in-law.
But he's also someone to avoid if you're on an official government trip.
Because six years earlier, in 1999, he was convicted in absentia for the murder of 170 people, the passengers of the flight that exploded above the Sahara.
And he's also been linked to the Lockerbie bombing in Scotland.
If it had become public knowledge at that moment that Claude Guéant, the chef de cabinet of the interior minister, had met with Abdullah Sanoussi, what would have likely been the public reaction in France?
I'm in Lyon.
It's a couple of years later, 2007, and I'm there to cover a huge American-style campaign rally for candidate Nicolas Sarkozy.
In a few weeks, he'll face off against his socialist rival, Ségolène Royal, in the presidential election.
At the rally, there are 15,000 people, thousands of French flags.
A local paper says the whole event costs 170,000 euros.
It's the first time I've seen Sarkozy in the flesh, and I'm struck by how small he is.
but also by his strut.
He looks just like a guy who knows it's all about to happen for him.
And there was someone else there that day too.
I'm talking to Lagarde in her enormous HQ in Germany.
Back in 2007, when we were at the same rally in Lyon, she was a junior minister serving alongside Sarkozy in the government.
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