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Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 4 - The Reckoning

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3728 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

With relations between London and Moscow deteriorating, Derek Conlon escapes to a new life, but destiny and the nuclear poison appear to have decided his fate.

Narrated by Diana Magnay. Written and produced by Robert Mulhern.
Production support by Chris Scott, and Dave Terris. Musical credit: "Olive" by Jake Chudnow, Original instrumentals 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 -- 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

At Quaker, we've spent decades trying to photograph our porridge so it doesn't look like lumpy beige goop.

0:06.8

But we can't be done, because Quaker is real food.

0:11.2

Too busy being tasty to worry about looking pretty.

0:14.8

So if you want real, take two minutes to make our mouth-watering golden syrup, cinnamon or hazelnut chocolate porridge and

0:21.8

bask in its ugly glory. Quaker will always have a face for radio. Quaker, deliciously real,

0:28.9

deliciously ugly. The TV was on. I was remember I was sitting at the desktop

0:39.3

and it came with a kind of crackling noise

0:42.6

and then it went

0:44.1

and went and stopped.

0:50.5

Why did that come from you?

0:53.2

Welcome back. I'm Diana Magni and this is episode four and the final episode why did that come from you know welcome back

0:54.2

I'm Diana Magne and this is

0:56.2

episode four and the final episode

0:58.4

of Polonium and the Piano Player

1:00.0

from Sky News storycast

1:01.7

if you haven't yet heard episodes

1:04.5

one to three then I suggest

1:06.2

you go back otherwise what follows

1:08.4

won't make any sense

1:09.5

so at the end of episode three we left Derek Conlon in his North London flat.

1:16.6

It's mid-December 2006, a month on from Alexander Litvinenko's death.

1:22.4

And Derek can hear what sounds like a two-way radio signal coming through his TV.

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