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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Jonathan Aitken has created an intricate web of lies, and now he’s placed his own family at the centre of it. If the truth is uncovered, he risks losing his relationships, career and freedom. But journalist David Leigh is onto him and he’s moving fast. He’s just one piece of the puzzle away from bringing Aitken down.
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0:00.0 | Rob I don't really know how to tell you this this episode contains some strong language. |
0:05.2 | Ooh some singers some sing songs some absolute |
0:09.0 | singer-dinger-lingers slapper doodle ding dongs okay |
0:11.6 | absolutely yeah okay I'll make sure to alert my nanny. |
0:16.5 | June, June 1997, Waterloo Station, London. |
0:27.0 | Jonathan looks out over the lights of London reflected in the Thames as he rushes across Waterloo Bridge. |
0:34.7 | It's 4 a.m. |
0:36.5 | The night sky is beginning to turn twilight. |
0:39.5 | It's quiet. |
0:41.0 | The odd taxi passes, a few drunk revelers head home, Jonathan pulls his baseball cap down as a couple of girls stumble past him. |
0:49.0 | Guilty as charged. That's weird because I would have been what 11. Well you started early. He hurries up the |
0:57.0 | stone steps of Waterloo Station and ducks inside under the Victory Arch. To his |
1:01.8 | relief the entrance hall is near empty, and there's no sign of |
1:05.3 | police. He glances at the giant clock on the wall. He's cutting it fine. An announcement |
1:12.3 | through a tinny speaker makes him jump. He regains his composure and checks the board for his train. |
1:18.0 | The 425 Eurostar to Paris. |
1:21.0 | At security, there's a family in front of him. Two parents and a little girl. |
1:26.2 | Jonathan thinks about his daughter, Victoria, who won't yet know that he's gone. |
1:30.0 | But who he has made lie under oath. Lest we forget. |
1:33.0 | That's what I call a whoopsy doodle do. |
1:36.0 | He looked in on her fast asleep an hour ago |
1:38.0 | before slipping out into the waiting car. |
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