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British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

William Joyce wants to serve Britain. But when Britain's establishment rejects him, he chooses Hitler's Germany instead, becoming the plummy voice of Nazi propaganda. This is the story of one of history's most notorious traitors. A man whose voice poured from the heart of the Third Reich into the very homes he left behind.

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0:00.0	Matthew, how was your weekend?
0:08.2	Oh, man, busy.
0:10.4	Took the bins out, didn't separate the recycling.
0:13.5	Naughty.
0:14.2	Took out a loan, not from a bank,
0:16.2	and gambled the value of my home away.
0:18.6	Please don't tell my wife.
0:19.9	And I bought a gun.
0:21.6	Please don't tell my wife that either. Yeah, no, I won't. I mean, I hate to say it, but I don't, I don't know if I believe you.
0:29.2	Alice, I'm trying to raise our credibility. We host a show called British Scandal. People cannot think we're squares. They've got to think we're dangerous, that we're edgy.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.4	I mean, I don't think people expect you to be something you're not.
0:41.4	You don't have to lie.
0:42.8	So, what did you actually do?
0:45.7	Okay, you got me.
0:48.1	Of course I separate the recycling.
0:53.8	Dusk. May 28, 1945. Vassar Slaeburn Woods, Danish-German border.
1:01.8	British Army Lieutenant Geoffrey Perry marks another transmitter bunker on his army field map.
1:08.6	Beside him, Captain Bertie Lickrish lowers his binoculars with a sigh.
1:13.1	Have these names been changed for anonymity purposes, or are these real?
1:16.6	These are not the work of a random name generator.
1:20.4	Captain Bertie Lickrish was a real man.
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