Murder In Cairo (Pt 2) - The wilderness of mirrors
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In 1977, David Holden, chief correspondent of the Sunday Times, was sent to Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel. A day later his body was found with a single gunshot wound in the back. The paper's editor sent a team of reporters to the region to investigate, but who killed Holden and why are questions that were never answered. The mystery remained unsolved for decades. In part 2 a young reporter picks up the trail - can he succeed when all other leads have gone cold?
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Guests:
- Peter Gillman, former Sunday Times reporter and co-author of Murder in Cairo.
- Emanuele Midolo, reporter, The Times and Sunday Times and co-author of Murder in Cairo.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Edward Drummond.
Further reading: The Cold War murder of our star reporter — solved after 48 years
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| 1:26.8 | From the Times and the Sunday times, this is the story. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm Manvian Rana. |
| 1:37.6 | Yesterday in part one, and if you haven't heard it, do go back and listen. |
| 1:45.1 | We told you about the mystery surrounding the former Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent, |
| 1:51.3 | David Holden, a man with a knack for being in the right place at the right time. |
| 1:58.8 | He was in Egypt at the time the Suez Crisis in 1956, in Jordan for an attempted coup in |
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