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🗓️ 18 June 2025
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When Novichok’s deadly tendrils claim an innocent victim in Dawn Sturgess, Prime Minister Theresa May must find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. But any response risks plunging Britain into full-scale chemical war.
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0:00.0 | Okay, Matt, today's the day. We've got that big interview with the magazine. I think this could be amazing for us. Great for publicity. More listeners. We just really need to nail it. Sure. So I've sent you a PDF with some of the questions they're probably going to ask. And I think it just makes sense if you just stick to the script basically I've written. Okay. Yeah, sure. So likely to come up, |
0:26.1 | I think, is what's it like to work on British Scandal? Okay, let me get it up. Working on British |
0:32.6 | scandal is the privilege of my life. Alice Levina isn't just a valued colleague. She's an inspiration to me |
0:39.3 | in many ways. Oh, thanks. That's really nice. That's great. Number two, do you and Alice do the research? |
0:48.0 | I don't do any research. Alice does lots. She has a keen eye for history and a sharp mind. |
0:55.2 | She remains an inspiration. |
0:57.7 | Oh, I'm blushing. |
0:59.1 | All I would say is that delivery, it does sound a little bit red. |
1:02.9 | So maybe for the next one, make it a bit more your own. |
1:06.0 | Loosen up. |
1:06.9 | Nice and natural. |
1:08.6 | Okay. |
1:09.9 | What is it like working with the legend that is Alice Levine? |
1:13.6 | Oh, honestly, it's a nightmare. She will often steal my jokes, re-record them, pass them off as her own. |
1:21.9 | She really doesn't understand history at all. She thought 5G was a boy band. She also has anger issues. She keeps a series |
1:28.9 | of weapons that, it's really odd at the start of recording, she would just lay them out |
1:32.9 | deliberately on the table while eyeballing me. She doesn't always let me eat. To be honest, |
1:40.8 | I'm scared. Very, very scared. Uh, okay. I think that was probably a little bit too natural. |
1:48.8 | On an unrelated note, could you just pass me those nunchucks? |
1:58.6 | July 8th, 2018, Muggleton Road, Amesbury, eight miles from Salisbury. |
2:06.5 | Dawn Sturgis checks her hair in the bathroom mirror, adds a touch of red to her lips, |
2:11.8 | then looks at the bottle in her hands, tilts her head to read the label. |
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