Londongrad

Introducing...The Gas Man

Introducing...The Gas Man It starts with a tip-off.  It’s the late 1980s and US Special Agent Dennis Bass is warned about a shipment of suspicious chemicals headed to a

Introducing...Eight years' hard Labour

Introducing…Eight years’ hard Labour, hosted by David Aaronovitch.  A new six part series from Tortoise which tells the inside story of a double revolution in the Labour

Introducing... Into The Dirt

From the team that brought you Sweet Bobby, and over three years in the making, Tortoise introduces Into The Dirt – a story about truth, spies and the stories we tell our

Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads - episode 4: The State

There are many competing visions for Iran and for what the country could become. In this episode, Paul asks whether enough is being done to protect Iranians overseas.  T

Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads - episode 3: Department 15

A Hell's Angels leader and an international heroin trafficker are just some of the unlikely hires for Iranian plots abroad. But who else is Iran commissioning for its ass

Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads – episode 2: Building 11

A lost photographer in a Chiswick business park, a nervous phone caller in LA and a speedboat bound for Caracas- who exactly are the hit men behind the threats?  Episode

Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads – episode 1: Threat to Life

London is a dark city in the middle of the night- these are the words of Iranian journalist Aliasghar who received a threat to life warning from the Met police. The polic

Introducing Londongrad Season 2: Iran's Hit Squads

Introducing Season 2 of Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads. Award-winning investigative reporter Paul Caruana Galizia returns to report the story of the foiled assassination

Londongrad season 1 bonus episode: The Johnson affair

A former KGB officer, Britain’s foreign secretary – and a potential national security breach Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Londongrad episode 6: Lord of the spies

 It’s no secret that political patronage can get you a place in the House of Lords. But even people who understand the system well - even peers themselves - were appalled

Londongrad episode 5: A blind eye

The Intelligence and Security Committee of the British Parliament produced a report into Russian interference in British democracy. Boris Johnson saw it before his genera

Londongrad episode 4: Doubling down

Years of warnings about Russia’s intentions had gone unheeded; discounted as scaremongering. But then came the invasion of Crimea, and the end of any doubts. In spite of

Londongrad episode 3: Project Venus

There comes a moment in any successful invasion of a country when you can no longer hide, your plans have to become obvious. It’s a moment of jeopardy but if you can get

Londongrad episode 2: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Moscow

The oligarchs who made their way to London in the early 2000s and changed it presented themselves as embodiments of the new Russia; members of the global elite, and arms-

Londongrad episode 1: The advance party

Britain prides itself on being impregnable; a country which hasn’t been invaded for 1000 years and can’t be bought. The Lebedevs give the lie to all that. They spent a lo

Introducing: Londongrad

Season 1 of Londongrad: How the Lebedevs partied their way to power is a 6 part series investigating two men who are at the heart of the story of Britain opening its door