Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask.

Someone that has sex.

Someone that has sex.

And remember, it's just between us.

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

On the 23rd of January, 1978, Baron Edward Jean-on-Pan was snatched from the streets of Paris in an audacious

kidnapping attempt. Before long, a ransom of 80 million francs was demanded. And to show that the

kidnappers meant business, they chopped off the baron's little finger, with the disturbing warning that more body parts would follow. And this wasn't the worst of it. In his new book, The Last Baron, Tom Sankton charts the two tangled months of the kidnapping case, which led to a bloody shootout and ultimately the fall of the industrial

giant, the Ompon dynasty. Emily Briffitt spoke to Tom to find out more. Tom, it's lovely to be

chatting to you today. Great to be here. Thank you. Now, your new book, The Last Baron, follows the

kidnapping of Baron Edward Jean-En-Ompin in 1978,

but also charts the history of one of Europe's major industrial juggernauts.

To start us off, can you run us through what happened?

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