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Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 3 - Victims and suspects

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3728 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As one of the biggest police investigations in British history gets underway, Derek Conlon is astonished to learn that he too has been poisoned. But having crossed into the world of espionage, that’s only the beginning of his problems.

Episode 4 released Monday August 3, 2020.

Narrated by Diana Magnay. Written and produced by Robert Mulhern. Production support by Chris Scott, and Dave Terris. Original Music by Derek Conlon. Digital by Phil Whiteside and Ronan Hughes. Legal support by Matt McKenzie. Graphics and Design by Matt Simpson and Sophia Leale. Continuity announcement by Kit Bradshaw. Video by Alex Marshall and Cat Roper Davies. Social Media support from Adam Tate. Archive from Simon Windsor and thanks to former Moscow Correspondent Alex Rossi.

Transcript

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0:00.0

See London in a new light, with the streets glowing in neon.

0:03.8

A London full of people walking in the same direction, beating cancer one step at a time.

0:09.2

And yes, a London where people actually say hello as they walk past.

0:12.7

The 20th of September is Cancer Research UK's Shine Nightwalk, and it's when London really sparkles.

0:18.7

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0:22.8

half marathon or full marathon walk and get 30% off your entry. Together we are beating cancer. Teas

0:29.2

and Cs apply. It's even worse than the bus than it is in the bar

0:37.6

with everything is drunk and shouting and screaming

0:41.0

and the wind is steamy from the rain

0:43.5

and the hot dog sellers are dragging out of the machines

0:46.5

and smoke full there.

0:48.9

It's a strange time of the night

0:50.0

and Oxford Street at 2 o'clock in the morning, you know.

0:52.9

Welcome back to episode three of Polonium and the piano player from Sky News Storycast.

0:59.2

At the end of episode two, we left Derek Conlon as he was making his way home on the night of the poisoning.

1:05.8

Eight hours after he unknowingly drank from the same radioactive cup as ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.

1:13.6

But we're now going to fast forward two and a half weeks.

1:16.6

It's the stuff of a Cold War thriller.

1:19.6

To the evening of November the 19th, 2006.

1:23.6

Derek is at home.

1:25.6

He's not at work tonight and is half watching the news.

1:30.3

A few days ago when he got the bus to the Millennium Hotel,

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