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Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 2 - The Poisoning

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3728 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A former KGB agent takes us deep into the world of the Russian spies who have just poisoned Alexander Litvinenko and piano player Derek Conlon using a miniature nuclear weapon.
(Episode 3 released 27th July).
Narrated by Diana Magnay.
Produced by Robert Mulhern

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:09.2

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0:12.7

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0:18.7

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0:21.6

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0:24.6

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0:26.9

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0:29.0

Teas and Cs apply.

0:33.0

I always cut through the little park in front of the American Embassy.

0:36.7

Just a little walk through and

0:38.3

cross the road and there's, I think, three or four steps up to the entrance of the Millennium Hotel itself.

0:46.3

This is episode two of Polonium and the Piano Player, a four-part series from Sky News Storycast.

0:53.3

I'm Diana Magne.

0:55.4

At the end of episode one, we left Derek Conlon on the afternoon of November 1st, 2006,

1:01.3

as he was making his way to the five-star Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, London.

1:07.1

At the same time, inside the hotel's piano bar, Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent,

1:13.6

has just picked up a cup of green tea poisoned with the deadly radioactive substance, Polonium 210.

1:20.6

And right now, Alexander is drinking from that cup.

1:25.6

As Alexander sips on this nuclear poison,

1:29.4

the poker-faced Russian agents Lugavoy and Koftoon,

1:32.9

whose barbill includes expensive Cuban cigars and designer gin,

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