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🗓️ 3 March 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Carrie Gracie, and this is episode three of Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel. |
0:09.5 | Previously. |
0:14.2 | He always said he never threw a cut, if she made a night dinner for him. |
0:19.4 | Pusting white, he was there. |
0:22.5 | Pull strings and make things happen. |
0:26.3 | A personal life was a mess. |
0:29.5 | How it suited, probably. |
0:34.1 | If you want to have a fairs, don't be a politician. |
0:44.6 | We ended our last episode in 2011, |
0:47.4 | with the British business fixer Neil Hayward, on a plane, found for Chongqing. |
0:53.4 | And to understand what happened next, |
0:56.6 | we need to know more about this incredible city of 30 million, |
1:01.4 | set in the steep hills of southwest China. |
1:12.5 | mobsters, money, guns, gambling, prostitutes, |
1:18.6 | and corrupt politicians. |
1:22.1 | Like Chicago in the 1930s, Chongqing is legend. |
1:29.4 | It became the backdrop for this story that would change China. |
1:34.4 | And in charge, the equally legendary Borshili. |
1:46.5 | Borshili was the son of Communist Party hero, and he had big ambitions. |
1:51.3 | He didn't want to be here in the sticks. |
1:53.8 | His political enemies in Beijing had united to exile him among the mobsters. |
1:59.2 | But his aim was to rule China. |
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