The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast

Nov 03 2024 92 ep. 52 mins 99

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Every week Phil Craig and his guests reveal the world’s BIGGEST scandals.
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Boeing, Boeing, Gone? + The Latest on Fayedgate | Ep.92 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Nov 03 2024 51 mins

Phil considers the feedback from last week’s remarkable interview with David Hooper and asks what Diana, Princess of Wales might have been told when she first agreed to go on holiday with Mohamed Al Fayed. Then this week’s guest - our friend Clive Irving - joins Phil to reveal the story behind perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of the aviation business - the fall

Mohamed Al Fayed’s Private Army Exposed! EXCLUSIVE interview | Ep.91 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Oct 27 2024 48 mins

Top British lawyer David Hooper has made a career out of standing up to the powerful and the wealthy, and so when Vanity Fair magazine needed someone to defend its groundbreaking 1995 expose of Mohamed Al Fayed - the first time sexual allegations about him were ever published - David was the natural choice. What happened next was extraordinary, as revealed by David to Phil in this

Taylorgate! And The Women The Kennedys Destroyed | Ep.90 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Oct 19 2024 52 mins

Britain’s new government is caught in a series of scandals about freebies, cronyism and ‘cash for access’. And now we have allegations surrounding the recent Taylor Swift concerts in London which might - or might not - be responsible for the downfall of a key Downing street aide. Phil wonders whether any of this really matters, and what it tells us about the state o

Simon Heffer on the Abdication Crisis + Freebiegate! | Ep.89 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Oct 13 2024 55 mins

Britain’s new Labour government has been shaken by stories of ‘gifted’ suits, penthouse flats and tickets for Taylor Swift concerts. Phil explains why this matters - and what it tells us about the problems of governing in the internet age.Distinguished historian Simon Heffer then joins Phil to talk about his new book on Britain in the Interwar years, and gives us his very wel

Harry & Meghan Separate Lives + Women Detectives That Changed Policing | Ep.88 | Scandal Mongers

Oct 06 2024 52 mins

Phil has spoken before about how he’d love to see Harry back in the royal fold. Are we seeing the first signs of this now, with a series of solo appointments that look a lot like old traditional royal visits? Meanwhile Meghan appears to have removed herself - or has been removed - from Harry's public life while she concentrates on her own new solo ventures - and selling jam. What

Fayed - Was Diana Warned? And Cricket’s Most Scandalous Player | Ep.87 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Sep 29 2024 55 mins

The revelation of many sexual allegations against Mohamed Al-Fayed has shocked the UK. The former owner of Harrods, confidante of Princess Diana and friend of British high society has been accused of a litany of crimes and a decades-long career of harassment and abuse. Given that Princess Diana died whilst under the care of the Fayed family, many have asked if she knew about this a

Harry, Meghan & Charles + America’s Forever War With Itself | Ep.86 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Sep 22 2024 68 mins

Former BBC correspondent Nick Bryant joins Phil to discuss his many years working in the USA, and reveals how and why his love for that country turned into something closer to despair about its future.But first our friend Clive Irving - a legendary investigative journalist and now star writer at The Daily Beast - returns to give us his update on the royal family as Charle

'Vodka with Stalin' with Giles Milton. Plus Kate’s New Royal Video | Ep.85 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Sep 15 2024 45 mins

Bestselling author Giles Milton joins Phil to discuss his incredible book THE STALIN AFFAIR about the ‘Big Three’ of the Second World War, and how this turbulent three way relationship shaped the world we live in today. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were very different men with often clashing personalities and agendas. Behind their famous wartime summits lay a series of

Coco Chanel - The Self-Invented Survivor Who Redefined Beauty | Ep.84 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Sep 08 2024 47 mins

Anne de Courcy returns to the podcast by popular demand to talk about her astonishing book on Coco Chanel, and the glamorous but dangerous society that she dominated. From the most deprived of backgrounds Chanel conquered the worlds of fashion and perfume. With her fast friends, wealthy and titled lovers and her appetite for the best things in life she basically ran the ’sce

William and Harry’s Summer of (not) Love - with Simon Vigar | Ep.83 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Aug 25 2024 45 mins

With their non-royal but actually quite royal 'anti colonialism' tour of Colombia seen as a success by many media commentators, what message was Harry and Meghan trying to send to the world, to Britain and - especially - to their royal siblings and siblings in law in London?And why did a curiously timed but well sourced profile appear on the front page of the London Times, pointing