The Story

In this special two part podcast, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, Gabriel Pogrund, is joined by the preeminent investigative journalist and author Patrick Radden Keefe.

On a cold November night in 2019, 19 year old Zac Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury London apartment. Police concluded it was suicide, however, under Radden Keefe's forensic microscope together with Gabriel's own Sunday Times investigation, serious questions are raised about what really happened that night, and whether it was suicide after all. It's a tale rooted in London's criminal underground, and now the subject of Radden Keefe's latest book, London Falling.

In this episode we hear about how a young man, born into a wealthy family, become embroiled with a notorious London gangster.

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Host: Gabriel Pogrund - Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times
Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe
Producer: Dave Creasey.
Executive Producer: Kate Ford
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Read more: The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it
Photo: The Times, design by Cecilia Tombesi.
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For decades UK sofas have contained chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and infertility because of uniquely strict fire rules. Up to a fifth of their foam consists of a chemical not used in any other country’s sofas, but is now classed “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organisation. So how deadly is your sofa, why is the UK an outlier and are things set to improve?

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Guest: Martina Lees, senior property reporter, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Edward Drummond
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Read more: Sitting comfortably? Your sofa is among the most toxic on Earth
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After mounting hostilities and Trump’s threats that ‘a whole civilization will die’ unless Iran backs down, Tehran and Washington have agreed to a two week ceasefire. Now, they’re discussing a ten-point plan to permanently end the war. But is this the end of the fighting or just a pause? What’s in the peace plan? And has this conflict taught Iran that it can hold the world to ransom?
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Guest: Catherine Philp, World Affairs Editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Olivia Case and Sophie McNulty.

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Read more: What’s in Iran’s ten-point ceasefire plan? Trump’s stumbling blocks examined
Further listening: The West Bank land grab no one’s watching
Clips: BBC, CNN, AP, CSPAN, NDTV, The Mary Trump Podcast.
Photo: Getty Images.

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With the world’s attention fixed on the war in Iran, Israeli settler gangs are rapidly and violently expanding outposts in the West Bank – seemingly with impunity. So, what’s it like on the ground? Is the Israeli government softening to the ‘extremist’ settler movement? And will settlers ever be held accountable?

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Guest: Richard Spencer, world affairs correspondent, The Times
Host: Manveen Rana
Producers: Sophie McNulty, Taryn Siegel
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Read more: Israel’s settlers seize their chance to snatch land in West Bank
Further listening: The Board of Peace: the new UN or Trump’s vanity project?
Clips: CNN, France 24, BBC, CBS, ABC 7, Middle East Eye.
Photo: Getty Images.
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Thousands of pensioners invested their life savings into London Capital and Finance before it was revealed to be the UK’s biggest ever Ponzi scheme. Now, new Times reporting shows how the millions in investments were lavishly spent by LCF’s founders. So how was a scheme on this scale allowed to take root in the first place?

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Guests:
Jim Armitage, contributing editor, The Sunday Times.
Antonia Summer, investor in LCF.

Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Harry Stott, Callum Martin.
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Read more: Inside Britain’s biggest Ponzi scheme: where did £237m go?
Clips: Rehman Chisti MP / Facebook.
Photo: Getty Images.
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