3.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Martin Geissler investigates Vladimir Romanov’s rise from Soviet submarine cook to millionaire football club owner and fugitive in a gripping tale of ambition, power, and chaos. With First hand testimonies from those that were there, Martin will hear just how Vlad made his money, came to power in Edinburgh and shocked Scottish football before discovering how it all went wrong, leaving Romanov penniless and a wanted man.
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0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
0:04.7 | Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC. |
0:08.4 | I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. |
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0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
0:30.0 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
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0:43.8 | You're listening to a bonus edition of the Scottish Football Podcast. |
0:47.5 | This is episode zero of a new podcast series Romanov, Zahar of Hearts. |
0:53.0 | It's not really an episode. it's more a three-minute |
0:55.2 | taster. And if you like it, head to BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts and search |
1:00.8 | for Romanov, Tsar of Hearts, and then hit subscribe. Lithuanian television is reporting that |
1:07.6 | prosecutors in the country have issued an arrest warrant for the Hart's majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov. |
1:14.4 | Can you describe Vladimir Romanoff in one word? |
1:18.5 | Mysterious. It's a man that you look at him, but you don't see nothing. |
1:26.6 | This is the remarkable story of a man who rose from obscurity to wealth, |
1:32.4 | only to fall into infamy as an international fugitive. |
1:36.9 | One word to describe him. |
1:38.4 | Do you know, it's nigh on impossible. |
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