The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast
Episodes
Secrets of John Le Carre AND The Diana murder plot, Part 2 | EP.39 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In another ‘double-bill’ episode we first hear back from former Chief Royal Protection Officer Dai Davies. He has a few things to say about t...
Queens, Princesses, Duchesses and Mistresses - with Lady Colin Campbell EP. 38 | The Scandal Mongers
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Few royal writers merit the description ‘insider’ as much as much as the super well connected Lady Colin Campbell.Moving through aristocratic and ...
Was Diana Murdered? | EP. 37 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since Dodi Al Fayed’s father, Mohamed, claimed that his son and Diana, Princess of Wales, were killed on the orders of ‘the royal family’, ...
The Secrets of Royal Protection - with Dai Davies | EP. 36 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dai Davies is one of the World's foremost experts in Security and Investigations, a Former Head of Royal Protection and a Chief Superintendent (Divisi...
Ep.35 | Meghan, Diana and Wallis - The Royal Outsiders - with Andrew Morton
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Few royal biographers have ever had such deep access to their subject as Andrew Morton obtained with Diana, Princess of Wales when preparing his sensa...
Ep.34 | The Sinister Secrets of God’s Bankers - with Gerald Posner
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gerald Posner is one of the most successful investigative writers in the world. He joins Andrew and Phil to discuss his personal history and beli...
Ep.33 | Jackie! With Guest J Randy Taraborrelli
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Forever remembered as the smart and stylish First Lady to President John F Kennedy, whose shocking death in Dallas she witnessed first hand, Jackie Ke...
Ep.32 | Trump, Biden & The Scandals Shaking US Politics
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It seems likely that the Presidential election of 2024 will be a re-run of 2020.Donald Trump faces multiple court cases and could, potentially, run fo...
Ep. 31 | Royal Secrets, Spies and Subterfuge with Michael Crick
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the days before this episode was recorded Andrew discovered that he has been, and maybe still is, the subject of extensive official data collection...
Ep. 30 | Decadence, Dictators and Death - The Scandalous Mitford Sisters
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Six girls and one boy, raised in aristocratic luxury in the years before World War Two, became the most famous - and most scandalous - family in Brita...
Ep. 29 | Covid 19 and the Chinese Virus Laboratory
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of the pandemic a lot of attention was paid to the fact that the Chinese city of Wuhan, from which the virus emerged, contained a bi...
Ep. 28 | Prince Andrew & Sarah Ferguson - a Scandalous Double Act.
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Duke and Duchess of York have been in the public eye for decades. Once widely admired for their freshness and sense of fun (and his record in...
Ep. 27 | Kate and Meghan - a Right Royal Feud? with Valentine Low
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Times royal correspondent returns to the podcast for a second interview. This time we’re highlighting the new work he has done for the latest ed...
Ep. 26 | The Scandalous Boris Johnson - with Tom McTague
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A once popular British Prime Minister brought down by scandals, after a career in politics with more than its fair share of controversy.Is it too soon...
Ep. 25 | An SAS Scandal - with Chris Masters
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After winning the Victoria Cross and numerous other medals, Australian SAS veteran Ben Roberts Smith became a national hero. But then allegations...
Ep.24 | Britain’s Looting of India - with William Dalrymple
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew and Phil discuss the remarkable - and remarkably shocking - story of the East India Company. How did a handful of men in a small office in Lon...
Ep.23 |The Great Global Banking Scandal - with Andy Verity
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The global financial system almost collapsed in 2008. Afterwards there was understandable anger at the behaviour of major private and national banks. ...
Ep.22 | The Mountbattens - Sex, Secrets and High Society
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode Andrew raised shocking sexual abuse allegations about Lord Louis Mountbattten - one of the most famous and most powerful royal ce...
EP. 21 | The East German Olympic Doping Scandal - with Katja Hoyer
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From nowhere East Germany came to dominate international swimming and athletics in the 1970s and 80s - an astonishing sequence of sporting success bas...
Ep. 20 | The Mystery of Lionel Crabb, the Cold War 007 - with Giles Milton
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Giles Milton is an internationally best selling author and the host of a top ten history podcast looking at the strange disappearance of the famous Br...
Ep. 19 | The Scandals of Winston Churchill
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Greatest Briton, the saviour of his nation and perhaps of democracy itself, the Lion who roared defiance in the face of a Nazi juggernau...
Ep. 18 | The Great British Post Office Scandal - with Nick Wallis
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Wallis is a reporter who became part of the story, playing a key role exposing one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in recent Briti...
Ep. 17 | Lord Lucan - but not as you know him!
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Guest Laura Thomson. It’s one of British history’s greatest open and shut cases. An angry, controlling man identified (even by himself) ...
Ep.16 | Camilla: From Mistress to Queen - with Rob Jobson
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Britain will soon witness the crowning of King Charles III, with Queen Camilla by his side. It’s an ending to the story of a 50 year on-off-on-agai...
Ep.15 | Profumo: The Dark Side of the 1960s - with Stephen Dorril
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Profumo affair is the scandal that has everything: sex parties in high places, Soviet agents, political resignations, dramatic court cases, drugs,...
Ep.14 | The Assassination of Robert Kennedy - with Tim Tate
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The assassination of Senator ‘Bobby' Kennedy - widely tipped to become US President in 1968 - was an event that shook and possibly changed the world...
Ep.13 | 1975 An Australian Scandal... and a Royal Apology?
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did King Charles III help bring down an elected government in Australia?In November 1975 Sir John Kerr, Governor General of Australia - acting in the ...
Ep. 12 | Down and dirty London - the scandalous secrets lying in the Thames mud
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marie-Louise Plum (AKA oldfatherthames on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok) joins Andrew and Phil to share fascinating stories from her life as an amateu...
Ep. 11 | Scandalous Georgians - with Tim Clayton
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the favourite era for cosy costume dramas, but the reality of life in Georgian and Regency Britain was more dramatic, colourful and downright s...
Ep. 10 | Oscar Wilde: icon, martyr, abuser….or all three?
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As LGBTG+ history month begins, Andrew and Phil are joined by Mok O’Keefe, better known as The Gay Aristo, to learn about the life and times of one ...
Ep.9 | Diana, Bashir and the BBC - with Andy Webb
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Webb is the investigative journalist and filmmaker who revealed the truth behind the infamous BBC Panorama interview with Princess Diana, and gen...
Ep. 8 | Harry lets them have it!
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With special guest Ailsa Anderson, former Press Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II.Everyone is talking about Prince Harry’s new book SPARE and its fier...
Ep. 7 | The Peer and the Gangster… plus an update on the Rebel royals. With author Dan smith
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of 2022 Andrew and Phil update some of the highlights of the podcast so far, especially the continuing debate between The Duke an...
Ep. 6 | Meghan and Harry: Rebel royals taking on the Palace
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today Andrew and Phil are joined by the Times royal correspondent Valentine Low to discuss all things Harry, Meghan, Wills, Kate… and Netflix! ...
Ep. 5 | 1940: Myths Busted and Scandals Revealed
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us think of the fabled summer of 1940 in terms of spitfires, the London Blitz and Churchill promising to fight on the beaches. But Andrew...
Ep. 4 | Guy Burgess, British Diplomat and Soviet Spy
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The revelation that spies working for the Soviet Union, recruited at Cambridge University in the 1930s, had deeply penetrated the British intelligence...
Ep. 3 | The Diana Wars - Part Two
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of our royal special, Andrew and Phil and joined by a very special guest: Patrick Jephson. Patrick was Diana’s only ever Private ...
Ep. 2 | The Diana Wars - Part One
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
King Charles is on the throne with Camilla by his side, and The Crown has returned to Netflix amid a storm of controversy about dramatising recent his...
Ep. 1 | Lord Louis Mountbatten
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode Andrew and Phil explore some truly shocking allegations about one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th Century, Lord Louis ...
Introduction Show!
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every week bestselling author Andrew Lownie joins his life-long friend, the filmmaker and writer Phil Craig, to reveal the world’s greatest scandals...