Ep. 54 How it gets built
The Tip Off
The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zak Garner-Purkis is sat in a fastfood restaurant - his attention laser-focused on the men gathering across the road. He is trying to work out who these man are, how they have come to be there, and whether this is what modern day slavery looks like in 21st century London?
This is the story of how Zak went undercover to expose a shocking system of exploitation in the construction industry.
Read all about it: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/investigations/how-i-bought-slave-labour-in-london-an-undercover-investigation-19-12-2019/
https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/investigations/stop-funding-slavery-19-12-2019/
Transcript available: http://thetipoffpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Transcript-The-Tip-Off-S9-Ep54-How-it-gets-built.pdf
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Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda
Producer: Olivia Aylmer
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| 0:00.0 | In uncertain times, people turn to gold. |
| 0:03.0 | Some buy gold coins or small bars. |
| 0:06.0 | But that's not how the professionals buy gold. |
| 0:08.0 | They buy large 12 and a half kilo gold bars. |
| 0:12.0 | You too can buy in this way from one gram upwards. |
| 0:16.0 | When you do, you'll get the absolute lowest price. |
| 0:20.0 | And because your gold is stored and insured in a professional vault, you'll never have to worry about it. |
| 0:25.7 | Bullion Vault. |
| 0:27.0 | Why buy gold any other way? |
| 0:36.9 | Zach's heart was pounding as the cold morning air fogged up the car windows. |
| 0:40.3 | He was trying to remember his backstory as they neared the location. |
| 0:45.3 | But as they swung around the corner, no one was there. |
| 0:50.3 | Zach was stunned. Had it all fallen apart already. |
| 0:57.1 | But we don't start here. I'm Maeve McClenigan. If you're joining us for the first time, welcome. |
| 1:04.1 | This is the beginning of a new series of the show. And as always, we start with the tip-off. |
| 1:13.2 | So I'm Zach Garner Perkis. I'm the chief reporter at MyLondon. |
| 1:18.1 | At the time of reporting the story, I was their head of content at Construction News. |
| 1:24.3 | Construction News is a monthly business-to-business news outlet, also known as B2B. |
| 1:30.2 | Zach's role involved writing news stories, doing interviews, covering reports and writing up |
| 1:35.4 | press releases. It was a job that involved a deep knowledge of the industry, but wasn't |
| 1:40.5 | necessarily an obvious place to do investigations. Working at titles like construction news, because you're more of a part of a industry in a way |
| 1:50.0 | that maybe you wouldn't be, if you're doing local journalism or national journalism, |
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