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True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On the 4th of March, 2018, the residents of Salisbury, England, watched on in horror as British soldiers flooded their streets, and people in hazmat suits cordoned off their roads.

Earlier that day, a man and a woman had collapsed on the high street; both were convulsing and foaming from the mouth.

The people of Salisbury had no idea that their sleepy little town was ground zero for the first chemical weapon attack, using a deadly nerve agent, in Western Europe since WW2.

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0:57.0

This is Tuesday's 1st of February.

0:59.0

I told you. And then I looked at the calendar and I look on my goddesses. I hate it. It's

1:02.5

happening. It's all happening. But no, I don't. It's fine. We're in a good place. And

1:06.4

maybe you're in a good place, dear listener, because I suspect where you might be. I'm

1:10.0

hoping where you might be is no doubt on 10 to hooks.

1:13.6

A waiting, the next installment of the Russian Poisoning Series. If you haven't got the faintest

1:20.8

idea, the fogiest idea, what the hell I'm talking about. It's probably because you didn't

1:24.9

listen to Russian Poisoning's part one, which is a grey bearer. Go back and do that immediately.

1:31.5

Please do that. And then this episode will make a whole lot more sense.

1:36.5

So last week, Hannah, dear listeners, you might remember that we left it taking a bit

1:41.8

of a job at the British government. How uncharacteristic. What an outlier to the normal

1:48.8

format of this show. What a shocker. Unbelievable.

1:52.7

And we also had a little bit of a job at other Western powers for not really coming down

1:57.3

hard on Russia. As the Kremlin runs absolutely fucking rough shot over various governments.

2:03.8

And if you don't know, again, what I'm talking about is because you are still ignoring

2:07.2

us and you haven't gone back in listen to part one. And maybe you're like, I'm not

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