Encore: The Litvinenko Affair | The Russian Runaround | 4
British Scandal
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The Litvinenko investigation moves to Moscow. If British police want to interview their chief suspects, they’ll need to get co-operation from the Russian authorities.
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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. |
| 0:13.9 | Okay, Matt, this is the last part of the Lithvinyenko affair and this story has been |
| 0:18.7 | crazy up until now. It's been incredible and I'm slightly nervous about what comes next. |
| 0:23.7 | Well, you should be very nervous because things are about to get even stranger because we're off to Moscow. |
| 0:34.7 | Monday, December 4, 2006, detective inspector Brian Tarpe steps off the plane at Moscow-Domadeva airport |
| 0:41.8 | to Skaya's dark grey and it's freezing. Following behind him, there is team of eight other Scotland |
| 0:47.2 | yard officers. Tarpe hurries them on. He wants to get his team to the hotel fast. He wants to check |
| 0:53.3 | through any last minute details. He's got a meeting with a Russian prosecutor general in just a few |
| 0:58.0 | hours. Plus the most important thing he needs to check at the hotel, of course. What time is breakfast |
| 1:02.2 | served? What time do you finish serving breakfast and is that a proper breakfast or is it continental |
| 1:07.3 | style? You don't like it? You don't like a mini-class on mini-based street? Come on, man, I'm |
| 1:10.5 | flying from London, give some sausages and bacon, mate. Tarpe has been a detective since the 80s. |
| 1:15.9 | He's now four years from retirement and he's seen a lot. Just last year, he was a lead investigator |
| 1:20.8 | in the 777 London underground bombings. But he's never seen a case like this. He knows he'll get |
| 1:26.5 | one shot at getting the truth in Moscow. If he doesn't get the proof he needs on this trip, |
| 1:30.7 | the whole case against Luga Boy and Covton fails. He follows the crowd of passengers into Bagotry |
| 1:36.4 | claim. Before they left London, Tarpe and his team were briefed by MI6 on counter surveillance. |
| 1:41.2 | He rehearses the list in his mind. How to tell if their rooms have been searched. How to tell if they've |
| 1:46.0 | been bugged. How to avoid honey traps. Just to be clear on what we mean by honey traps. Don't order any |
| 1:51.5 | special films on the room service. Don't use the Wi-Fi and if a woman in the hotel bar shows an |
| 1:56.9 | interesting new, it's probably putin in a wig. Just good rules for life. Tarpe looks around the baggage |
| 2:04.0 | carousels. He wonders if surveillance has already started. Outside the airport, Tarpe takes a deep |
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