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231: Episode 231 - A Storm in a Teacup: The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

If a man in his mid-forties crashed into your local hospital being violently sick and claiming to have been poisoned by the Russian State, you'd be forgiven for thinking he was just another drunk member of the public. However, what Alexander Litvinenko had ingested was a little bit stronger than anything available at your local pub.

Pop on your ushankas and buy a first-class ticket to Moscow, it's time for round one of RedHanded vs The Kremlin.

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0:00.0

3am, mission statement. 4am, staffing. 5am, successful series B.

0:06.1

6am, wake up and get to work.

0:08.8

VauBoss is a 5am network providing 10 gigas standard

0:12.0

for the businesses that prefer to spend their nights dreaming,

0:14.6

rather than worrying.

0:16.0

VauBoss, the business 5am network built by VauBoss for London.

0:20.2

I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Red Handed.

0:32.2

Where? I was trying to think of something about the red scare, the red army.

0:38.2

I should have thought that through better, but I didn't.

0:42.2

Instead, I spent the last however many weeks, however many years.

0:46.2

It feels like drowning in Russian soup. Borsh. Borsh.

0:52.2

Which is also red.

0:53.2

You've just been a tiny baby with a neck pillow in a big bowl of Borsh.

0:57.2

And if you don't know what she's talking about, that's because you don't follow us on Instagram.

1:00.2

And you are a bad, speaky bitch.

1:03.2

But we forgive you because you're here now and that's all that matters.

1:06.2

And we got a hell of a few cases for you.

1:09.2

Yes, this is one of those ones that we thought was going to be reasonably straight.

1:13.2

Yep, and now it's spiraled not out of control.

1:16.2

It's spiraled into a very controlled explosion of knowledge.

1:20.2

Which is probably how the people at the heart of our show today would spin something that was completely out of control.

1:27.2

So let's do it. Let's talk about it.

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