Poison: Episode 3 - How Do You Like Your Tea?

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Home after years in exile during the liberation struggle, South Africa’s future President Jacob Zuma is quickly engulfed in corruption scandals. But when one of his wives is accused of trying to poison his tea, Zuma suspects that a foreign government may be plotting to kill him.

'Poison' is the story of one man's toxic obsession and the battle for South Africa's future.

Presenter: Andrew Harding Producer: Vauldi Carelse Sound mix: James Beard Series editor: Bridget Harney

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:39.0	Hi, I'm Andrew Harding and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4.
0:44.0	Jacob Zuma is home from exile, a liberation hero with big political ambitions and a lot of
0:51.0	baggage.
0:52.3	Welcome to episode 3 of poison. Never, never and never again, shall it be that this beautiful land will again
1:10.0	again experience the oppression of one by another. It's the early 1990s and South Africa's
1:18.4	liberation struggle is ending. Nelson Mandela is released from prison and Jacob Zuma returns home from exile.
1:27.0	He's a free man now, a family man with political ambitions. But soon Zuma is talking about plots against him, about spies and poison too.
1:42.0	Some people wanted me dead. spies and poison too.
1:43.0	Some people wanted me dead and indeed it was quite a strong poison.
1:49.3	Welcome back to poison.
1:51.7	When the war ends, does the fighting stop? And Desuma's homestead on the hillside just to the right.
2:09.4	It's huge, very, very fancy.
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