The Salisbury Poisonings | Glass Houses | 1
British Scandal
Wondery
4.5 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
A Russian spy torn between loyalty and freedom. A secret deal with MI6. And, years later, in Salisbury, England, a deadly Soviet-era nerve agent turns a quiet afternoon into an international crisis. This is the story of Sergei Skripal: the double agent who betrayed Russia and lived to face Vladimir Putin's vengeance.
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| 0:00.0 | A bit of a weird one, Matt. |
| 0:06.8 | The powers that B have got in touch, |
| 0:08.4 | and they want us to fill out this kind of psychological assessment, |
| 0:12.2 | if that's cool with you. |
| 0:13.9 | I guess so. |
| 0:14.9 | It sounds a bit weird. |
| 0:15.6 | I know. |
| 0:16.0 | I've done mine. |
| 0:16.6 | Have you ever done a Rorschach test? |
| 0:18.0 | No. |
| 0:18.9 | It's kind of like an inkblot test, and you sort of just say what you see. |
| 0:23.2 | Okay. |
| 0:24.0 | So, that's the first one. |
| 0:28.3 | Cornish pasty. |
| 0:30.3 | Okay. |
| 0:31.3 | That's what it looks like. |
| 0:32.9 | And that one. |
| 0:36.3 | My mum. |
| 0:37.7 | Wow. |
| 0:38.5 | It really looks like her. |
| 0:39.6 | I've never met her. Yeah, okay. |
| 0:42.2 | And finally, that one. |
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