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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Hi Tip Off Listeners - We are working hard on new episodes for you, and have some more great stories coming up this series. But this week we are taking a dip into our archive.
As the Russian regime is accused of breaking international law and committing untold atrocities in Ukraine, we're re-publishing the first of a two-parter, originally published in 2018. This is the story of how Heidi Blake and her team of journalists at Buzzfeed UK revealed a series of deaths, all on British soil and all linked to Russian actors. These episodes came out just a few weeks before the horrifying news of Novichok poisonings in Salisbury.
So, stay tuned for more stories behind the headlines, and for now, enjoy a classic from our archives.
Read all about it: https://www.waterstones.com/book/from-russia-with-blood/heidi-blake/9780008300098
If you liked this episode go back and find Episode 16 in our archive - called Web of Death Part 2.
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0:00.0 | Hi Tip-off listeners, Maeve here. |
0:03.9 | We're working hard on new episodes for you and we have some more great stories coming up in this series. |
0:09.7 | But this week we're taking a dip into our archive. |
0:13.6 | As the Russian regime is accused of breaking international law and committing untold atrocities in Ukraine, |
0:20.1 | we're republishing the first of a two-parter, |
0:23.0 | originally put out in 2018. |
0:25.8 | This is the story of how Heidi Blake and her team of journalists at BuzzFee, UK, revealed a series |
0:31.9 | of deaths, all on British soil, and all linked to Russian actors. |
0:37.7 | Now, these episodes came out a few weeks before the horrifying news about people being poisoned |
0:42.4 | in Salisbury by Novichok. |
0:45.2 | So stay tuned for more stories behind the headlines. |
0:48.7 | And for now, enjoy a classic from our archives. |
1:01.7 | Scott Young committed suicide. |
1:04.2 | That's what the news report said. |
1:09.1 | The millionaire appeared to have jumped from the window of his lavish London home on the evening of December 8th, 2014. |
1:12.6 | He was found more than 30 foot below, his lifeless body impaled on the wrought iron railings |
1:18.4 | surrounding his luxurious home. Despite rumours and intrigue about the shady company he was |
1:25.0 | keeping, months later a coroner's report ruled out foul play. |
1:31.5 | London property tycoon Scott Young dies after falling onto railings, read the news headlines. |
1:39.0 | The gory details were all and more jarring, couched in the emotionless reporting of the newspaper clippings. Clippings |
1:47.0 | that had been packed neatly into a carry-on bag. Heidi Blake's carry-on bag. She was on her way to New York, |
1:55.0 | and she didn't know it then, but the journey would be longer and take her much further than that. From cold parish streets |
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