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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Journalist Gerd Heidemann is searching for his next story for Stern magazine when the scoop of the century lands in his lap. But is it too good to be true?
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0:00.0 | Hello there British scandal listeners, it is Alice here. |
0:02.9 | We are taking a little break, but in the meantime, |
0:05.6 | I wanted to share one of my favorite seasons with you. |
0:08.6 | It was with a heavy heart that this week |
0:10.4 | we heard British scandal favorite Rupert Murdoch |
0:13.6 | was stepping down. |
0:15.3 | An illustrious career that spanned generations. |
0:18.2 | So we thought why not remind you of a chapter |
0:20.9 | in that career that he definitely doesn't want you to remember? |
0:25.4 | The story is memorable in so many ways, |
0:27.8 | a truly bizarre tale of fake news, greed, and duplicity. |
0:33.2 | It's also memorable in that it's solely responsible |
0:35.3 | for the loss of our entire German listenership. |
0:37.9 | We are, of course, revisiting the Hitler diaries. |
0:42.5 | I won't ruin it, but it's the story of a small time German crook |
0:45.3 | and a fanatical journalist who fall the entire world |
0:48.6 | with a collection of crudely forged diaries |
0:51.2 | by none other than Adolf Hitler. |
0:54.0 | As their lie ripples outward, many are taken in, |
0:57.2 | a high profile historian, respected journalists, |
1:00.4 | and probably the most frequently featured character |
1:02.6 | on British scandal's bingo card, |
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