The Murdoch Phone Hacking | Phone Hacking Today: Nick Davies Interview | 5
British Scandal
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🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The journalist who broke the phone hacking story, Nick Davies joins Alice and Matt to talk about its legacy today. In 2011, Nick Davies reported the key stories that revealed the extent of the ‘dark arts’ at Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers. He is the author of the best selling account: Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught up with Rupert Murdoch.
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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. |
| 0:15.0 | From Wondery, I'm Alice Levine. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Matt Ford. |
| 0:18.0 | And this is British Scandal. |
| 0:31.0 | Today we're finishing up our series on the phone hacking scandal, which we've been following through the fate of two people, Andy Coulson and Rebecca Brooks. |
| 0:37.0 | It was a story of truly bizarre details, Matt. |
| 0:42.0 | So many incredible details. |
| 0:44.0 | People having cocaine for breakfast, Ross Kemp have in a suit of armour. |
| 0:48.0 | Custard Pygate, Charlie Brooks getting put on trial essentially for hiding a conquer from the police. |
| 0:53.0 | But then of course there's the serious side. |
| 0:56.0 | Hacking the phones of Millie Dowler, the 7-7 bombing victims and families of soldiers killed in Iraq. |
| 1:01.0 | There's no low that is too low. |
| 1:04.0 | So it's now about 10 years after the closure of the news of the world. |
| 1:07.0 | What impact did this scandal have and what does it mean today? |
| 1:11.0 | One man who knows better than most is Nick Davies in over 100 articles for the Guardian. |
| 1:16.0 | Nick exposed the phone hacking and criminal activity at News of the World. |
| 1:20.0 | It was his reporting that ultimately led to the levyson inquiry. |
| 1:23.0 | He's also author of Hack Attack How the Truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch. |
| 1:27.0 | And he gives us his account of the scandal next. |
| 1:37.0 | We are supported by Find My Past. |
| 1:40.0 | Find My Past is home to the largest collection of British and Irish records online. |
| 1:44.0 | In fact, it's got the world's largest archive of digitised British and Irish newspapers. |
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