Epstein Files: New Pictures Appear to Show Andrew
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
More than three million pages of documents related to the sex offender - Jeffrey Epstein - were released on Friday.
New pictures appear to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling over a female lying on the ground, as well as emails to and from a man referred to as “The Duke”.
Other emails show Epstein sent £10,000 to Lord Peter Mandelson's husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva in 2009, and the US President Donald Trump is mentioned hundreds of times.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing, and all the men mentioned have denied wrongdoing.
Laura and Paddy look at what light they shed on what happened with Gary O’Donoghue, chief North America correspondent.
Plus, new candidates are announced for the Gorton & Denton by-election.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | We can keep ourselves occupied this afternoon on Saturdays newscast with a quiz, |
| 0:09.3 | because in a moment we are going to talk about this huge, another cash treasure trove for journalists of emails, documents, images, photographs of the Epstein files that were released late yesterday. And in a second, |
| 0:22.5 | we'll be talking about that with the help of our correspondent, our colleague in Washington, Gary O'Donohue, |
| 0:27.9 | but I do have a quiz for you. I love a quiz, unrehearsed only. |
| 0:31.0 | Unrehearsed only. Okay. The Prime Minister has been in China this week and in Japan today, |
| 0:34.8 | we know. And as is the, often the case with these things, there's a sort of diplomatic polytest of basically you get a present, right? |
| 0:43.6 | So what did Kyrsama give to President Xi Jinping this week? |
| 0:48.7 | He gave him a football signed by Manchester United team, which beat his own team that he supports, which I think is the Arsenal. |
| 0:57.6 | You're absolutely right. And it was a match that the Prime Minister was at. So who knows? Who asked, did he, did he himself at the end? |
| 1:03.8 | Say, can I get the ball, please, mate? Or did one of his staffers think it was a good idea? But yeah, I suppose you get a point for that. |
| 1:09.7 | What was the reverse present? |
| 1:12.3 | Well, I love this answer because I know this answer as well. It's three different types of flute. |
| 1:18.5 | Wrong. Oh! Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Oh, no. So you're correct that there was the exchange of |
| 1:25.1 | gifts which included three different kinds of flute. |
| 1:29.5 | Because the Qua Minister Kirstama did play the flute. |
| 1:34.2 | But the flute was given to him by the Chinese Premier, Li Kuan. |
| 1:35.2 | Okay. |
| 1:41.2 | So my question, again, is what did President Xi give Kirstama? |
| 1:44.2 | Who does she think she is? |
| 1:46.6 | No, did she give him... Did President Xi give him the Shakespeare in Chinese? |
| 1:51.7 | Nope. |
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