• Scoop!

  • By: Mail+
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • 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.

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Episodes
  • Left behind: The Afghan translators
    Dec 10 2020

    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 ‘Betrayal of the Brave’ campaign - and how Ricky was finally brought to safety in Britain.

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    19 mins
  • The couples paying £14,000 to choose the sex of their baby
    Nov 5 2020

    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 desperate parent - and visiting NHS specialists who help couples get round the law.

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    24 mins
  • The English Assassin
    Oct 22 2020

    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? Presenter Amelia Hemphill talks to Tom Rawstorne, who investigated... and found chilling hints that the English assassin might still be alive.

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    29 mins

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