British Scandal.
Operation Mincemeat
British Scandal is a long running podcast featuring Alice Levine and Matt Forde available on Audible.
The show delves into the murkier side of the British elite, tracking historical and modern events involving sex, money, and political power.
In this series, During World War 2 the British intelligence used a dead body equipped with fake secret documents to trick Nazi Germany into believing the Allies would invade Greece instead of Sicily.
Episode Breakdown
- Part 1: The Perfect Body – Examines how British intelligence sourced a suitable corpse and built a fictional wartime identity (Major William Martin) for the elaborate ruse.
- Part 2: Dead Drop – Follows the deployment of the body off the coast of Spain and the tense waiting game to see if Spanish authorities would hand the documents over to German intelligence.
- Part 3: Hook, Line and Sinker – Explores how German agents and Hitler reacted to the false intelligence, assessing whether the grand deception ultimately worked.
- Bonus/Special: How Lies Helped Win the War – Features wartime deception historian Dr. Helen Fry discussing the real-world psychology and stakes of military espionage.
British Scandal
In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other – scandal.
British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthrow the rich and cause the mighty to fall. Some are about sex, others about money. In the end, they’re all about power.
But often at the heart of a scandal, there are ordinary human stories, stories of those caught up in the swirl of outrage.
Who was really to blame for what happened? Why did they do it? And when all is said and done, did anything really change?
From Phone Hacking to Saville to Profumo who show us the reality of power, the price of pride and the failings of the great and good. Because sometimes the truth doesn’t set everyone free…
