Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel - Episode 1

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A true story of death, sex and elite politics in China

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Carrie Gracie, the BBC's China Editor.
0:03.2	This is murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel,
0:06.2	a story that changed China.
0:08.8	I want to tell this story because it reveals
0:11.4	how China really works
0:13.7	in a way that the day-to-day headlines don't.
0:16.6	So although the Communist Party doesn't want us to tell this story,
0:20.0	and although it's done its best to scare us off, here goes.
0:24.5	MUSIC
0:28.9	You always said you never spoke to cutters.
0:31.1	She made it like a difficult for it.
0:34.9	I think it was painful, actually.
0:37.0	HE HONK
0:38.1	We will handle this issue.
0:41.1	Another politesse, then.
0:42.8	Instruct accordance with law on basis of facts.
0:49.5	Poison.
0:51.1	Poison.
0:51.9	A good source for British intelligence.
0:54.5	Go, go, go!
0:56.5	Oh, go, go!
0:57.5	The script for the trial has been written.
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