Introducing... The Rest is Classified

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It's Iran 1951. Mohammad Mosaddegh, fuelled by an ever-growing nationalism, has just been elected Prime Minister. Immediately he chooses to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, much to the anger of the British who control the majority stake. In response, MI6 are determined to destabilise his government and remove him from power. So they begin to conspire with the CIA. Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy Roosevelt and agency man, will go from Washington to Iran and, building on existing instability, foment chaos on the streets. But it won't be plain sailing... Listen to Goalhanger's latest podcast, The Rest is Classified, as David McCloskey and Gordon Corera tell the story of the 1953 Iranian coup orchestrated by the CIA and MI6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want access to bonus episodes reading lists for every series of Empire, a chat community.
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0:32.8	Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnon.
0:34.9	And me, William Turimple.
0:42.3	Listen, today we're here because we are going to tell you about a really very exciting new podcast from Goalhanger.
0:46.7	And it is called The Rest is Classified.
0:50.3	It's going to tell you some of the most brilliant.
1:01.3	It's kind of a strange thing to say, but brilliant stories from some of the most murky corners of international diplomacy. Delving into the world of espionage, it is hosted by former CIA analyst turned spy novelist, David McCloskey, and a friend of mine, the national
1:06.8	security journalist, Gordon Carrera, who I always, I'll tell you, in the other
1:11.4	parish, you know, the one that you like to mock so much that I work in.
1:14.2	What's that?
1:14.8	What parish was that?
1:15.5	Yes, I know.
1:16.5	Yes, I know.
1:17.5	This is a small broadcasting outfit.
1:21.0	But any time Gordon walked into the studio, you knew that he was going to untangle a really
1:27.0	completely knotted issue in a very
1:30.3	simple way. And I never came away from talking to Gordon without learning something.
1:34.9	So Gordon, I mean...
1:35.8	Hang on, before you drop that, we have to say also about Gordon's other great claim to fame.
1:40.9	Feathers. Pigeons. Gordon is a fellow pigeon fancier. That we have in common, Willie,
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