#120 Scandals (Part 2)

Oh What A Time...

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we are trawling the archives for scandals! (And let’s attempt this episode description in true tabloid fashion). Hear all about Lord Byron’s saucy behaviour! The blackmail of Alexander Hamilton! And (one of the all-time great scandals) you simply won’t believe the Profumo affair!

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1:18.0	Back in the early 1790s, I'm taking you back.
1:21.6	The United States, obviously, such a new country,
1:25.5	was rocked by its very first political sex scandal,
1:27.4	The Hamilton Reynolds Affair.
1:30.0	Sounds sexy, doesn't it?
1:31.8	Yeah.
1:34.6	Oh, the Hamilton Reynolds Affair.
1:36.5	Now, at its heart was a love affair between Alexander Hamilton,
1:38.4	then the Treasury Secretary
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