Greg Barker: the lord's work
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The days of the Russian oligarch in London are numbered. What fate awaits the enablers – those well-connected people who worked for and provided services to wealthy Russians? This is the story of one of them
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Bashar here and before this episode starts, I just wanted to say thank you. |
| 0:04.8 | It's five years since we made our first ever podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | Since we're at the beginning, we should, I think, do the polite thing and make some introductions here. |
| 0:13.2 | Basha, do you want to start? |
| 0:14.2 | That was the beginning of our weekly investigative show, the slow newscast. |
| 0:18.0 | And while we have hopefully gotten a bit better at this since then, |
| 0:21.9 | what we care about hasn't changed. |
| 0:24.0 | Because we still investigate injustices. |
| 0:26.9 | Until recently, everything I'm about to tell you was a secret. |
| 0:30.2 | We tell gripping stories with a human heart. |
| 0:32.9 | It's a screwed up crazy kind of love story, |
| 0:35.6 | filled with death, lies and witness protection programs. |
| 0:39.2 | But still, it's a love story. |
| 0:41.9 | And we investigate in the public interest. |
| 0:44.4 | We've won landmark legal battles. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello. |
| 0:47.6 | I thought you'd like to know we've got the judgment. |
| 0:49.9 | It's going to be published. |
| 0:52.2 | Oh my God. |
| 0:52.8 | You can find our chart topping and award-winning series on Tortus Investigates. |
| 0:58.7 | What I uncover is a global game of cat and mouse. |
| 1:03.1 | A catch me if you can. |
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