The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast

Mar 08 2025 108 ep. 54 mins 103
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Every week Phil Craig and his guests reveal the world’s BIGGEST scandals.
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The Real Ruth Ellis Story | Ep.108 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Mar 08 2025 61 mins  
What's this? Meghan Markle in Phil's Australian Bar?Then Carol Ann Lee joins Phil to discuss her incredible book on Ruth Ellis, on which the new international TV drama is based and in which Ruth is played impeccably by the British-American Actress Lucy Boynton.A CRUEL LOVE: The Ruth Ellis Story(Official ITV Trailer)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijla27WmAA0As the last women to

William's Message to Harry + The Story of Seduction | Ep.107 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Mar 01 2025 58 mins  
Phil has spent decades analysing royal spin - from the age of Diana to the current TransAtlantic stand off between her two sons. He thinks that the interview Jason Knauf gave this week to the Australian 60 Minutes series is one of the most significant things to happen in terms of ‘Palace Kremlinology’ in many years. The interview did not happen by accident and will ha

An Aussie Justice Scandal | Ep.106 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Feb 22 2025 74 mins  
One of Phil’s former colleagues, Quentin McDermott, joins him from Australia to report on the remarkable case of Kathleen Folbigg - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of our age.After four of her children died under the age of 20 months, Kathleen Folbigg was charged and convicted of their murder in 2003. After 20 year in prison she was freed after scientific discoveries

What Next For Harry - And The Real Queen Charlotte | Ep.105 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Feb 15 2025 51 mins  
For a long time the Invictus Games was one event that even critics of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex admired - but the latest games have drawn criticism for their conduct?  Is it fair? And where do the rebel royal couple now stand?Then Dr Natalee Garrett from the Open University joins Phil to talk about her work on one of the most important royal women of them all - Queen Char

Britain’s Rogue Agent + Starmer’s Voice Coach Scandal | Ep.104 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Feb 08 2025 68 mins  
Phil reacts to the emerging story of a possible new British political scandal. Having come to power partly because Boris Johnson fell foul of Britain’s tough Covid rules, did our current Prime Minister break them too and, if so, should it even matter? Phil’s article from 2022 is also relevant here. https://thecritic.co.uk/im-done-with-po-faced-politicians/Then writer James Cros

Opium! The British Empire’s Dirty Drugs Scandal | Ep.103 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Feb 02 2025 63 mins  
This week Prof Alan Lester joins Phil to lift the lid on a little known - but certainly scandalous - slice of British imperial history - the Opium Wars. There’s much debate today about slavery and how much - or little - it contributed to the wealth of the great European empires. But much less is known about the role that Britain and other empires played in the hugely pr

HARRY WINS, or does he? Plus The Real Marie-Antoinette | Ep.102 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Jan 25 2025 76 mins  
After the dramatic conclusion of Prince Harry’s case against the Murdoch Empire - which was supposed to be the media trial of the Century - Phil asks whether it was all worth it. Then Carolyn Harris - a renowned expert on royal consorts - joins us from Canada again to talk about perhaps the most famous - or is that notorious? - consort of them all.Weaving dramatic details of war,

Harry v Murdoch - The Final Countdown | Ep.101 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Jan 18 2025 49 mins  
Britain's headstrong royal exile is soon to step into the legal ring with the media mogul and his entourage, in Harry's continuing campaign to make senior executives accountable for the hacking and other tabloid scandals in the UK. And pre-trial transcripts obtained by Vanity Fair show just how much damage the prince is threatening to do. Clive Irving has report

The Walls Have Ears - with Dr Helen Fry | Ep.100 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Dec 27 2024 48 mins  
In our final episode of the year - and the 100th edition of the podcast - Helen Fry returns to share some more remarkable stories from the Second World War. Helen tells Phil of a long secret intelligence operation designed to extract information from enemy soldiers, sailors, pilots - and some of Hitler’s most senior Generals. Many of these men knew that the British were

Heiresses! Tales of Scandal, Seduction & Sacks of Cash | Ep.99 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Dec 21 2024 54 mins  
Writer Laura Thompson returns to the podcast, bringing all the insights and cleverness that has made her one of our most popular guests. And this time her subject is 'the heiress', including some of the most celebrated women in high society and literature. In her book 'Heiresses: the Lives of the Million Dollar Babies', Laura tells an incredible story of social change and bad behav