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🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In 2019 a few hungry men went looking for food at a local soup kitchen in Birmingham; here they met an aid worker who was horrified to discover the suffering they had endured at the hands of a notorious Polish crime family. Following this encounter Operation Fort - the biggest modern slavery investigation in the history of the UK - was sparked. In this episode Hannah and Suruthi explore what people trafficking really is as they delve into the UK's prolific slavery network.
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| 0:42.9 | I can't remember how, what? Yes, hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:46.9 | Excellent start, I'm Sruti. |
| 0:48.9 | I've done a real banger. It's just been quite the few weeks and I feel like... |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome to Redhanded, by the way, firstly and secondly, I feel like we're just sort of |
| 0:57.9 | starting to wind down. I personally am sleeping past 4am now, which is a real plus. |
| 1:01.9 | I feel like we've just been very tightly wound springs for about two months and I feel like |
| 1:06.9 | we're just about unwinding now. I mean, I'm putting words in your mouth, you might be |
| 1:10.9 | like, I'm just everything still awful. No, no, no, I am a-okay, I woke up at just |
| 1:16.9 | before 9am today on... Nice! What is it? Good Friday that we're recording this? |
| 1:22.9 | Yep. So while I did wake up at 9 o'clock, we are obviously still working on a UK |
| 1:26.9 | bank holiday, but that's fine, because compared to what's been going on for the last few |
| 1:30.9 | weeks, this is completely chill. And if you're wondering what on earth we're talking |
| 1:33.9 | about, it's because we wrote that book we told you about last week, guys. |
| 1:37.9 | It's happened. The book is out there and if you would like to pre-order your |
| 1:41.9 | copy, which I would wholeheartedly recommend, because I think it is quite the excellent |
| 1:46.9 | book, then you can follow the link tree that is very handily placed in the show notes |
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