The Thorpe Affair

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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How the 1970s Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe attempted to hide his longstanding gay affair by having his lover shot. But the British public felt he'd gone too far when a dog got shot instead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.5	Hello, and welcome to We are history.
0:38.7	I'm laughing because John just clapped and it was like he missed his hands.
0:42.4	It's hard clapping.
0:43.7	We count down at the start of every recording people and we count down five to one and then we do a clap and then we start and John just completely missed his hands.
0:52.6	It's hard. It's hard.
0:53.9	It's like since John's hard. It's like, since John's accident.
0:58.5	Anyway, welcome to our history board.
1:01.9	I'm Angela Barnes.
1:03.0	And I'm John O'Farrell.
1:04.5	And John, this history podcast is about world-changing events, right?
1:09.1	We're not here for gossip or titlet-tat-all.
1:11.9	We don't go seeking scandal just for the sake of it.
1:14.7	Absolutely not.
1:15.8	But anyway, the book we both read for this one is called A Very English Scandal by John Preston.
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