The Profumo Affair | A Man Without Morals | 5
British Scandal
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🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A public inquiry into the Profumo affair gets underway, while Stephen Ward’s trial at the Old Bailey begins.
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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. |
| 0:10.6 | Okay, Matt can't quite believe it. It is the final chapter today. |
| 0:13.6 | It's been an incredible story, but it does have its dark moments. |
| 0:17.0 | Yes, it certainly does. And at that point, I will just mention that today's part of the story |
| 0:21.4 | does contain scenes of a suicide just to warn you. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay, let's begin. |
| 0:25.9 | It's the 22nd of July 1963, the old Bailey London. |
| 0:32.0 | Stephen Ward steps out of his car to find himself at the centre of a baying mob. |
| 0:36.6 | Hair neatly combed and sobly dressed in a smart suit and crisp white shirt. |
| 0:41.2 | He pushes his way through the crowds. He fixes a smile and waves to the photographers. |
| 0:46.6 | Inside the courthouse, Stephen shakes hands with his barrister, James Birge. |
| 0:52.2 | The pair walk into the hall of court one. It's swarming with court officials, |
| 0:56.8 | barristers, policemen, ushers and witnesses. It's becoming more real for Stephen now. |
| 1:01.9 | All this for him, a vicar's son from Torque. |
| 1:05.5 | The press has already dubbed this the trial of the century. |
| 1:09.9 | Stephen would be lapping it up himself if he weren't at the centre of it all. |
| 1:13.9 | The only thing he can do is try to get through it with some dignity intact. |
| 1:18.4 | Within the hour, Stephen is standing in the dock. The court clock begins to read out the counts against him. |
| 1:24.4 | On count one, living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler at Wimpol Muse |
| 1:31.6 | during a 15-month period between June 1961 and August 1962. |
| 1:36.6 | How do you plead? Not guilty. |
| 1:40.4 | On count two, living off the immoral earnings of Marilyn Rice Davis |
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