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You see, I told you. I told you we'd be right back with another episode.

If you're listening to this and you're confused, that's because you haven't listened to the

prequel episode to this one, so go back and your feed and do that right now.

But for everyone who's caught up, welcome to the second half of the Paul Foot Award 2023

nominations shortlistees episode. We're about to hear from three brilliant teams of

investigative journalists about the stories that got them nominated.

And you're about to hear them introducing themselves right now.

I'm Harry York and I work for the Sunday Times.

My name's Gabriel Pogrand. I work for the same paper and point entry for the Paul

Foot Award this year was our reporting on the BBC Chairman Richard Sharp.

I'm Jamie Tarson, vice-world news and our story for the Paul Foot Award this year was an

investigation into the influencer Andrew Tate. David Conn, investigations correspondent at the

Guardian and my story is about the PPE contracts awarded to a company linked to the

Conservative Party peer Baroness Michelle Mone.

We kick off with Gabriel and Harry who are going to tell us about a story that I think a lot of

you will have heard of. It concerns the Chairman of the BBC Boris Johnson and £800,000.

Gabriel, tell us about this one.

So our story focused on the undisclosed role that Richard Sharp played in the behind-the-scenes

talks leading to a six-figure financial facility that was used to bankroll Boris Johnson

during his time in number 10. So one of the weird things about our political system is if you're

Parliamentary and you have to disclose anything exceeding I think 250 quid of hospitality or gifts

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