The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast

As the testimony of Prince Harry’s latest law suit against the tabloids concludes, we learn that Harry himself was sending flirty messages to journalists. Has he sunk his own case?

Phil is then joined by Prof Mark Stoyle, an expert on 16th and 17th Century Britain to talk about the world of Samuel Pepys, one of the greatest - and most honest - diarists of all time. Phil and Mark explore the filth and the frolics of Pepy’s London in an entertaining mix of social history and salacious scandal!

Mark’s fantastic history books can be found on Amazon and this is the latest...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murderous-Midsummer-Western-Rising-1549-ebook/dp/B0B8DXLH56

There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...
https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X

We now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our work

Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
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Everyone is talking about the new Tom Bower book on Meghan and Harry - and Phil is no exception. But how much of it is real, and how much is simply ‘deranged gossip’, as one critic called it. As a former royal biographer, Phil explains how damaging personal royal stories like these come out…and why!

Then this week’s guest is Simon Dinsdale a very entertaining ex police detective who took his experience solving high profile murder cases and turned it into a new life writing crime novels. Simon talks very well about how policing has changed during his lifetime. Sometimes for good…but also sometimes for bad.

Simon Dinsdale, the author of the Christian Dane crime novels

There’s information and extracts from Phil’s own new book here...
https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#

***We now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our work***

Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers***

If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.

THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on Youtube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLT97Jikt2c

The Scandal Mongers...
https://x.com/mongerspodcast

Phil Craig...
https://x.com/philmcraig

You can get in touch with the show via...
[email protected]
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)

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Phil is joined this week by historian Caroline Sharples to discuss her brand new book on the facts of Hitler’s death - but also what she calls ‘the emotional history’ of an event that was hoped for by many, feared by some, and pre-planned by many people, including Hitler himself.

So just how did the world learn of this historic event - and how was it proved to the satisfaction of global opinion. Hint - it involves the tyrant’s teeth!
You can buy Carolne's book here...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Death-Adolf-Hitler-Investigative/dp/0300284918

There’s information and extracts from Phil’s own new book here...
https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#

***We now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our work***

Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers***

If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.

THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on Youtube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLT97Jikt2c

The Scandal Mongers...
https://x.com/mongerspodcast

Phil Craig...
https://x.com/philmcraig

You can get in touch with the show via...
[email protected]
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)

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Phil begins with his reaction to the latest royal news as the police finally move to arrest Britain’s disgraced former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

He’s then joined by writer Neil Root to talk about the incredible life, and untimely death, of Peter Rachman, the most notorious landlord in 1950 and 60s London. His life intersected with many of the dangerous - but also glamorous - men and women of his time, as the city boomed and then prepared to 'swing’, as told in Neil’s excellent book on criminal and social history, called SLUMLORD...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slumlord-Rachman-Post-war-London-Underworld-ebook/dp/B0G2SKC4YY

There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...
https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#birdwatching

We now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our work

Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers

*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.

THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast

The Scandal Mongers...
https://x.com/mongerspodcast

Phil Craig...
https://x.com/philmcraig

You can get in touch with the show via...
[email protected]
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)

Show Produced By Podcast World Soho

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Phil is very much occupied by Australia this week.
He starts by sharing his thoughts on a recent boycott of an important Writer's Festival in Adelaide because of a row about open support for Hamas and its murderous actions on 7/10. The boycott was by mostly left-of-centre wing writers and broadcasters, some of whom Phil has worked with and knows well. He doesn’t think they were right!

Then - in the week that Prince Andrew finally leaves Royal Lodge - Phil turns to the state of the British royal family’s relationships with Australia, in the company of lawyer, broadcaster and long-term royal observer Caroline Di Russo.

From the rise and fall of republicanism through Australia’s love affair with Diana Princess of Wales and then its (brief!) embrace of Prince Harry in his ‘Larkin Prince’ phase, this is a fascinating convo (as they would say in Australia) about royalty, politics and culture down under.

There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...
https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#

*We now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our work*

Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers

*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.

THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcast

The Scandal Mongers...
https://x.com/mongerspodcast

Phil Craig...
https://x.com/philmcraig

You can get in touch with the show via...
[email protected]
(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)

Show Produced By Podcast World Soho

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.