The Puppet Master – Episode 2. Ascension
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This is the story of the most powerful man you’ve never heard of.
He can spot an ex-spy with presidential potential and help turn him into a world leader. He creates opposition movements out of thin air. He’s got a nation’s news directors on speed dial. Billionaires seek his advice. He’s even got his own little war. He’s at the heart of the standoff between East and West. Some even credit him with pioneering the concept of post-truth politics. Yet few even know his name.
He is Vladislav Surkov. And in this episode, Gabriel Gatehouse charts his rise from small-town Russia to the heights of power in the Kremlin.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Seriously? |
| 0:41.0 | Yes, this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse with Part 2 of The Puppet Master. |
| 0:49.0 | It's our series about the most powerful man you've never heard of. |
| 0:52.8 | If you missed part one, stop. always been a dangerous game. Actually, Kossock meassa, to-toste. |
| 1:13.0 | Like how short, |
| 1:14.0 | triribra like nibabawa? |
| 1:16.0 | What that? |
| 1:18.0 | So he says, if you chuck this at a pig's carcass, |
| 1:21.0 | it'll go straight through it. |
| 1:23.0 | No. |
| 1:24.0 | Meet Tadeush Kacianov, knife thrower, extraordinary, |
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