Join presenter Amelia Hemphill for this podumentary series which takes you behind the headlines to see the dramatic details of how Britain’s best newspaper landed its biggest scoops. Interviews with top reporters and experts offer a once-in-a-lifetime peek behind the curtains of the biggest stories in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.
Afghan translator Ricky served the British Army for 18 years, putting himself and his family at risk from Taliban revenge attacks - but like many others, he was denied sanctuary in Britain after the war ended. Jenny Longden talks to the Daily Mail’s Defence Editor Larisa Brown on the Mail’s ‘Betrayal of the Brave’ campaign - and how Ricky was finally brought to safety in Britain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
British couples desperate for a boy (or a girl) are paying vast sums to a clandestine network of doctors who allow them to pick the sex of an IVF embryo (a treatment illegal in the UK). Presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to the Mail's Tom Kelly about an investigation which saw him impersonating a desperate parent - and visiting NHS specialists who help couples get round the law.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The brutal assassination in Beirut in 1979 of a terrorist warlord known as the Red Prince saw a mysterious clue left at the scene - the passport of a young British woman, Erica Chambers. But was she really a killer cold-blooded enough to set off a bomb which tore apart innocent bystanders? Presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to Tom Rawstorne, who investigated... and found chilling hints that the English assassin might still be alive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Screamer cult believed in unbridled sex and screaming abuse at one another to let out their true feelings - but behind their freewheeling lifestyle lay a dark secret. In the fifth of our series of Mail+ podumentaries which take you behind the headlines of the Daily Mail’s most dramatic stories, presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to Rebecca Hardy, who travelled to the beautiful Colombian jungle retreat of the Screamer cult, and unearthed the dark side of 'free love'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The shocking story of ruthless Albanian gangsters guilty of brutal killings, drug dealing and torture in their homeland… but living free in British suburbs. In the fourth of our series of Mail+ podumentaries which take you behind the headlines of the Daily Mail’s most dramatic stories, presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright about his pursuit of notorious Albanian murderers to their hide-outs in Britain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the third of our series of Mail+ podumentaries which take you behind the headlines of the Daily Mail’s most dramatic stories, presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to Frances Hardy about the last-ever interview given by the reclusive Lady Lucan, whose husband fled after murdering their nanny and attempting to kill her. In a rare glimpse into the home where Lady Lucan had lived in isolation for 40 years, she confided in Frances Hardy her plan to kill herself. Then just a few weeks later, she did.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the second of our series of Mail+ podumentaries which take you behind the headlines of the Daily Mail’s most dramatic stories, presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to Tom Kelly, the Daily Mail's Investigations Editor about his terrifying journey to meet a notorious organ trafficker who convinces corrupt surgeons to help him sell healthy human kidneys to rich Westerners in need of a transplant. Posing as a customer, Tom risked everything to meet the shadowy 'Prem' in a guest house in Nepal... but would his cover be blown?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the first of a new series of Mail+ podumentaries which take you behind the headlines of the Daily Mail’s most dramatic stories, presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to feature writer Guy Adams about the scandal he uncovered that cast doubts about Andrew’s judgement long before he’d met Jeffrey Epstein. The gripping tale of his infamous ‘Southyork’ mansion and the Kazakhs who bought it from him for millions over the asking price begins with a chase which saw Guy following GPS coordinates across a remote Greek island, chasing a tip-off which would shake the Royal family to its foundations…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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