The phone calls | Master Ep 6

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A fifth woman comes forward with allegations against the author Neil Gaiman.

Reporter: Paul Caruana Galizia and Rachel Johnson

Producer: Matt Russell

Additional reporting: Jess Swinburne

Original music and sound design: Tom Kinsella

Series editor: Matt Russell

Editor: Jasper Corbett

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Tortoise.
0:11.0	Before we begin I should warn you that this is a hard listen at times. This series
0:16.1	contains graphic descriptions of sex and allegations of sexual abuse. This episode is intended to be listened to after the first five episodes
0:26.7	and all six are designed to be listened to in their entirety because this is a story of conflicting accounts. Hey.
0:45.0	Okay.
0:49.0	You can do it.
0:50.0	You can do it.
0:51.0	You can do it.
0:52.0	You got this. This is easy.
0:57.0	Claire has been stealing herself for this. this. Hello?
1:05.0	Hey.
1:07.0	How are you?
1:10.0	Apart from probably very nervous about this call.
1:14.0	She is speaking with Neil Gaiman.
1:17.0	She hasn't spoken to him in close to a decade,
1:20.0	but she had sent him a letter to his house in Woodstock, New York State weeks earlier,
1:26.0	as there was unfinished business between them.
1:29.0	For her, at least. If I'd known that I took up at space for you, I would have...
1:40.0	I don't know. I would have...
1:42.0	I definitely would have been reaching out a long time ago. I'm, you know, I've never sort of you
1:48.9	with anything other than fondness and a little awkwardness and you know I'm actually feeling like I got the
1:59.6	wrong end of the steak but I thought you were terrific and I was
	...

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