The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast
Scandal Mongers Podcast
Every week bestselling author Andrew Lownie joins his life-long friend, the filmmaker and writer Phil Craig, to reveal the world’s BIGGEST scandals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Episode list
71
June 8, 2025
51 min
THE ELOPEMENT Inside Jane Austen’s World - with Gill Hornby | Ep.120 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
This week we look - for the first time - at a novel and Phil is joined by writer Gill Hornby.The Elopement is the third book in a trilogy exploring the world of Jane Austen’s famil...
moreMay 25, 2025
57 min
Private Lives and Public Gaze - with Tiffany Jenkins | Ep.119 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Mok O’`Keeffe returns as co-host and, together with Phil, explores the complex subject of privacy with Tiffany Jenkins, whose new book Strangers and Intimates makes the case that w...
moreMay 18, 2025
47 min
London’s Legal Shame - with David Hooper | Ep.118 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Phil is joined again by the lawyer David Hooper, who has a new edition of his book Buying Silence coming out. David is one of the world’s great campaigners for open, affordable jus...
moreMay 11, 2025
59 min
The UK Grooming Gang Cover Up - with Julie Bindel | Ep.117 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Phil is joined by campaigner and writer Julie Bindel, the first person to investigate the grooming gang scandal that has so shocked Britain over the last two decades, and which see...
moreMay 4, 2025
53 min
Meghan, Dragons Oh My + Vatican Secrets | Ep.116 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Our friend Gerald Posner returns to bring his unique insight into the story BEHIND the election of a new Pope - the overlapping financial and sexual scandals that have plagued the ...
moreApril 27, 2025
41 min
The Most Scandalous Drink In The World | Ep.115 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
This week we enter the demi-monde of the belle epoch to explore the strange and scandalous story of Absinthe, with writer Nina Studer. By the time it was banned in 1915, the famous...
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