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From Wondry, I'm Alice Levine.

And I'm Matt Ford.

And this is British Scandal.

So, over the past few episodes, we've been following the twists and turns of the Profumo affair.

We've learnt how a teenage dancer, Christine Keeler, had an affair with the Cabinet Minister, Jack Profumo,

and how a series of abusive boyfriends then brought more trouble.

And that just all blew up into this huge tabloid feeding frenzy.

And at the same time, we were following her on again off again, mate, Stephen Ward,

the social climbing, sketching, certainly sketchy, don't book an appointment with him, Osteopath,

and how he ended up being involved with MI5 and just on the side as a kind of passion project,

sorting out the odd orgy.

So it's been a roller coaster.

Yeah, and so much of this, I mean, there are lots of things to take from this story.

One that the 60s was no way nearest progressive as it's made out to be,

or as we like to think in retrospect, particularly those of us who weren't there at the time,

and more importantly, never, ever call anyone little baby.

Oh, don't, I can't.

Shake it off, shake it off.

But what about the person at the centre of the storm?

What about Christine Keeler?

We all know the famous photo of her, but what was she like in real life?

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