Archer | Lord of the Lies | 1
British Scandal
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🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Jeffrey Archer is a young and up and coming Tory politician. He dreams of becoming Prime Minister. But what happens when a newspaper accuses him of paying for sex?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British scandal at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:11.9 | Alice, if I was to ask you to name a famous Jeffrey, who would you go for? |
| 0:16.4 | Mm-hmm. Okay, Goldblum, obviously Jeff DeFrends. Maybe the character from the now-defunct kids TV show Rainbow and |
| 0:23.2 | the giraffe from Toys of Us. |
| 0:25.2 | Given that this is British scandal, do you think there are any of those three are likely to feature in a series? |
| 0:30.4 | Yes. Fair point. The prices at Toys of Us were a disgrace in the 80s. |
| 0:34.4 | Amen. |
| 0:36.5 | It's 12.45am, the 9th of September 1986, the Albion Hotel, London. |
| 0:44.0 | Jeffery Archer stumbles off the grubby bed. Gramps his shirts and trousers, dresses quickly. |
| 0:49.7 | The room is tiny lit by a single low-watt bulb. It's foggy with cigarette smoke. |
| 0:55.6 | Paint flakes off the moldy walls. Remind me to never stay at the Albion. |
| 1:00.2 | He buttons up his shirt, looks in the mirror above the broken sink. |
| 1:04.1 | He's 46 years old with small eyes, a wide flat mouth and brown, crew-cut hair. |
| 1:10.6 | He's average height, slightly built. Nothing about him looks remarkable. |
| 1:15.1 | But Jeffery Archer's face is one of the most famous in the country. |
| 1:19.1 | He's deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. He's also a best-selling novelist. |
| 1:24.9 | His photo smiles out from the covers on all his books. |
| 1:28.4 | In the next few minutes, he needs to get out of this hotel without anyone seeing him. |
| 1:33.9 | He picks up his jacket, grabs his car keys from a bowl of condoms. |
| 1:38.3 | Oh, you see now, I have a bowl next to my front door where I put my keys so I don't misplace them. |
| 1:43.8 | But this feels like something a bit different. |
| 1:46.3 | Oddly, I have a bowl of condoms by the front door, so that I don't misplace them. |
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