The Litvinenko Affair | Poisoned | 1
British Scandal
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4.4 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of our four part series, Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko flees Moscow to live in exile in London, but he doesn’t know Russian agents are moving against him and there will be no billionaire to protect him.
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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. |
| 0:12.7 | Okay, Matt, do I have a story for you? |
| 0:15.4 | Alice, I'm all ears. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay, it's got everything. Conspiracy, corruption, murder, fast. |
| 0:21.5 | That's quite a lot of things. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah, I know. It's quite a roller coaster. |
| 0:24.4 | One of the reasons I also love this story is it's in London in the mid-2000s. |
| 0:28.2 | This was my era. We're talking Nokia phones, my space, my humps by Black Eyepiece. |
| 0:35.7 | Absolutely, tune. Boot cut jeans. I think I still wear them. |
| 0:39.1 | You shouldn't with your car, you should be showing those off. |
| 0:41.2 | But what I didn't know was that on the very same streets, the most unbelievable Russian spy story was unfolding. |
| 0:48.5 | I can't wait to hear this. |
| 0:49.8 | We'll buckle up. You are in for a ride. |
| 0:52.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:52.8 | It's 2.30 in the morning on an autumn night in 2006. |
| 0:59.9 | Inside a townhouse in London's Muswell Hill, |
| 1:02.4 | Marina Liphanenko wakes with a start. |
| 1:05.4 | She's 44 years old with clear blue eyes and neatly cut blonde hair. |
| 1:09.8 | Usually she has an air of calm about her, but not tonight. |
| 1:13.8 | She can hear her husband Sasha throwing up again. |
| 1:17.1 | I feel a deep sense of dread. |
| 1:19.6 | It's for boating, isn't it? |
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