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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

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Asil Nadir claims he can prove his innocence. He just needs to stick around for the trial. But when someone offers him a seat on a small plane to Cyprus… Well, wouldn’t you?

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0:00.0	Hi Alice, so you know how we're best friends now?
0:09.2	I mean, well, definitely, yeah, like for friends or colleagues, yeah.
0:13.1	That'll do.
0:14.5	I need a favour, if that's okay.
0:16.5	Oh, God, yes, what is it now?
0:18.6	Well, I'm going to be away for the weekend, so I wondered if you want mine just popping around to mine and water in my houseplants.
0:23.0	Oh, okay. Okay, fine. But if I ever need anything, you know me a favour?
0:28.1	Yeah, anything. Just whenever, wherever I'm there.
0:31.7	Matt, can I ask a favour?
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:34.7	Me, you just say whenever.
0:36.1	Sure. So it doesn't really matter the details, but like last night there was this car and like I kind of borrowed it and you know I can't like technically drive and like there's a thing with like a kind of like shop front and like the car doesn't look great.
0:50.2	The shop front doesn't look great.
0:52.0	And it doesn't look good on me either. And so I was just
0:55.6	thinking maybe could you just say it was you? What? No. You just said if I ever need a
1:03.4	favour? I'm not sure it applies in this case. Okay, well, I guess say goodbye to those spider plants.
1:10.5	Well, okay, let's just calm down.
1:13.9	I'll do it.
1:15.5	The police will probably be around tonight.
1:19.5	April 1993, Ballam.
1:23.6	Asil turns up the collar on his trench coat, slips into a doorway, and holds his breath.
1:30.3	He waits until the unmarked police car behind him disappears into the evening traffic.
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