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The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast
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Every week Phil Craig and his guests reveal the world’s BIGGEST scandals.
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Andrew Lownie Returns to Talk More Fergie and Andrew | Ep.144 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
1w ago00:58:37Tap to summarizeYes, Andrew is back once again with news of the paperback of his hugely successful book ENTITLED, which includes a new, long and scandal-packed chapter all about the astonishing events of the last 6 months. Andrew is at his feisty and funny best in this rather hair-raising interview with Phil.You can get the new book here - at our own bookshop!...https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/entitled-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-house-of-york-andrew-lownie/b66b23561541b2d1?ean=9780008775490&next=tThere’s information and extracts from Phil’s own new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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/channel/UCpiDbLiwypTLqMaKnNfxcTAPlease follow the Podcast and Phil below...The Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Charles Conquers USA + Stalin’s Apostles | Ep.143 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
3w ago01:16:13Tap to summarizePhil has never been a fan of King Charles - especially in the Diana era - but should he reassess in the light of the recent royal tour of the USA, and his undoubted diplomatic triumphs there?Phil is then joined by writer and friend Antonia Senior to discuss her gripping new book - already on the best seller lists - and how it brings the story of the Cambridge Spies to life in a completely new way. Spoiler alert - she doesn’t like them one bit!You can buy her book here...https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalins-Apostles-Cambridge-Making-Soviet/dp/1399727893Please Follow the Work of Antonia Below...https://x.com/toniseniorAntonia's YouTube Channel...The History Book Buffs Podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0z5CgDkVN-CdjqeI3_Jx_wThe Princess Diana Documentary Phil mentioned in the show...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipW_RzKPWQs&t=2509sThere’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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/139971449XWe now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our workLooking 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=I3ZRWhWuexQThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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MEGHAN & HARRY IN OZ + ALL THINGS ROYAL WITH VALENTINE LOW | Ep.142 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Apr 1900:53:56Tap to summarizeFormer Times royal correspondent Valentine Low joins the pod once again to talk about Harry and Meghan's current ‘pseudo royal’ visit to Australia, the state of the royal family and his upcoming book on relations between the palace and the press across many years and many reigns. Valentine’s most recent book is available here at our own scandal mongers bookstore...https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/power-and-the-palace-the-explosive-new-royal-book-that-reveals-what-happens-between-10-downing-street-and-buckingham-palace-in-times-of-crisis-valenti/bef1446b4dd2498c?ean=9781035418817&next=t&aid=12054There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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/139971449XWe now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our workLooking 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=I3ZRWhWuexQThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho@thescandalmongerspodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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HARRY’S ‘NAUGHTINESS’ + SAMUEL PEPYS SHOW | Ep.141 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Apr 500:49:12Tap to summarizeAs 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/B0B8DXLH56There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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/139971449XWe now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our workLooking 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=I3ZRWhWuexQThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho@thescandalmongerspodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Truth of Modern Policing + Meghan Melodramas! | Ep.140 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Mar 2201:02:49Tap to summarizeEveryone 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 novelsThere’s information and extracts from Phil’s own new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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=CLT97Jikt2cThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - with Caroline Sharples | Ep.139 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Mar 800:50:31Tap to summarizePhil 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/0300284918There’s information and extracts from Phil’s own new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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=CLT97Jikt2cThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Andrew Mountbatten Arrested + Slumlord Peter Rachman | Ep.138 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Feb 2200:52:52Tap to summarizePhil 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/B0G2SKC4YYThere’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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=#birdwatchingWe now have a Thank You button (next to the ’three dots’) for small donations that help support our workLooking 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/@thescandalmongerspodcastThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Does Australia still ❤️ the British Royals? | Ep.137 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Feb 800:55:37Tap to summarizePhil 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/homeYou 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/@thescandalmongerspodcastThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Scandalous World…of Birds | Ep.136 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Jan 2500:53:18Tap to summarizeIn the first episode of 2026 Phil talks to his old friend Stephen Moss, one of Britain’s leading bird watchers. It’s a colourful and amusing conversation - full of surprises. ‘Birding’ has become very popular in recent years as more and more of us take an interest in conservation and the natural world. But, even amongst the normally placid ’twitching’ community, there are many issues and controversies to explore - and even some actual scandal.Stephen’s books are available here...https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/ten-birds-that-changed-the-world-book-stephen-moss-9781783352418?sku=GOR012965889&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19553277260&gbraid=0AAAAADZzAIC6VLCRd1czTlTLBfrYuVxVaThere’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou 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/ScandalMongersIf 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 listen to watch on YouTube...https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcastThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Christmas Special + A Possible New Royal Scandal | Ep.135 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Dec 2501:30:36Tap to summarizeWISHING YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!In this extended episode Phil reviews his year then welcomes his old pod-pal Andrew Lownie back to discuss the continuing fall out from his bestselling book on Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and to drop some major hints about his next project - the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. What truth lies behind the rumours of his multiple affairs, the suggestion that she enjoyed at least one alternative relationship, and that Philip may not have been Andrew’s real father? Expect some scandalous suggestions. After that Phil is showing a video of his recent interview with Sonia Purnell, biographer of Pamela Churchill/Harriman. This interview - filmed at a recent literary event - is full of juicy details about a life that was packed with scandal, but also very momentous. There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou can order his book now 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/ScandalMongersIf 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 listen to watch on YouTube...https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcastThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)Show Produced By Podcast World Soho#Christmas2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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