For ten years, the man who led the Telegraph in 2009 has kept quiet about what happened during the scandal. But some stories are worth returning to. Guest: Will Lewis To claim our subscription offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audioTo get in touch: po

5 - The Lawyer

Jun 5th, 2019 23m 26s

The Telegraph’s reporting on expenses involved a secretly copied disc, a million pages of sensitive personal information, and the most powerful institution in the land.What would the paper have to do to avoid getting stopped by the law?It fell

4 - The Politician

May 29th, 2019 25m 3s

What was it like to be working in Parliament when the expenses scandal broke? It’s a question that most MPs are reluctant to answer. But not all of them. Guest: Norman Baker --------To claim our subscription offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio Fo

3 - The Campaigner

May 22nd, 2019 24m 53s

When New Labour came to power in 1997, they made a promise that they’d eventually come to regret.And one journalist did more than anyone else to hold them to it. Guest: Heather Brooke --- For our full Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expe

2 - The Cartoonist

May 15th, 2019 24m 32s

On a normal day Matt Pritchett, our front page cartoonist, gets into the office at around 8am and starts to figure out where the news is heading. But there weren’t many normal days in May 2009. ———— For our full Expenses coverage: www.telegraph

1 - The Reporters

May 7th, 2019 30m 13s

In the spring of 2009, a small group of reporters at the Telegraph were given access to hundreds of thousands of pages of parliamentary expense claims, covering every single MP in the country. Working in secret, they began to pick through the f

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Apr 4th, 2019 1m 33s

Ten years ago this month, Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the UK was sliding into recession, Poker Face by Lady Gaga was on the radio everywhere, and unbeknownst to anyone else, a small group of journalists at the Telegraph had taken delivery

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