The Coughing Major | Interview | 4
British Scandal
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Alice and Matt interview the playwright James Graham. He wrote a hit play and tv show about the Ingrams. He talks about what it was like meeting the notorious couple and how he came to question the official narrative of what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British Scandal at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:06.0 | From Wondry, I'm Alice Levine, and I'm Matt Ford. And this is British Scandal. |
| 0:24.0 | So Matt, the coughing major, you kind of liked him. I did. In the end, yeah, he really |
| 0:37.2 | grown me. I kind of felt for him. Okay, so at the end of it all, you're at home, you're lying in bed. |
| 0:41.9 | You've got your hot water bottle. You've got your consolation light projection, which is how you get |
| 0:45.3 | sleep. You've got your white noise machine on. Yeah, thunder caps for jammers. Precisely. What does |
| 0:49.9 | you got to tell you guilty or innocent? Well, I've been on a journey with this because he's really |
| 0:54.8 | grown on me. So guilty. Really? I think so on the balance of things. Yes, even though I like him, |
| 1:03.4 | I think it's more that I understand why they do it. And I think they basically thought it was |
| 1:09.1 | a victimless crime. Arguably it sort of is, but I think yes, they should never set foot outside |
| 1:16.5 | of Bill Marshall. Oh my goodness. A classic Matt Ford sentence. Well, I think a lot of people, |
| 1:22.7 | like you have been on a bit of a journey with the story, they came with a really concrete idea |
| 1:26.0 | of what they thought. And then as we've revealed some of these facts that perhaps weren't in the news, |
| 1:31.2 | they weren't out there when we first heard this story. They've slightly wavered. And we're going |
| 1:35.2 | to talk to somebody who's been key in putting forward this alternative narrative about the Ingrams. |
| 1:40.8 | He's a brilliant playwright. His name is James Graham. He turned the Ingram story into a hit West |
| 1:45.6 | and Play and a TV show called Quiz that was on ITV last year. That's next. |
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