Scoop
Scoop
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.Follow the podcast:
Left behind: The Afghan translators
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 ‘Betray…
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The couples paying £14,000 to choose the sex of their baby
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 desp…
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The English Assassin
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? Presente…
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On the trail of the 'screamer' sex cult
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,…
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Exposed: The Albanian killers living free in the UK
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 Am…
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The secrets of Lady Lucan’s last interview
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 attem…
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Exposed: The human organ trafficker who harvests kidneys for the rich
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 corr…
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The inside story of Prince Andrew’s FIRST scandal
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 Epstei…
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Scoop Trailer
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