Listen to ‘Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring’, with Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes, Sergei Cristo & special guests
A thriller featuring Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes and Sergei Cristo that exposes an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British establishment.
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From exclusive parties at the Russian Embassy to the corridors of Westminster, journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British political system. This is the untold story of the most audacious Russian influence operation in British history. It involves honey traps, Russian agents and information warfare.
You can expect a nine-part series, where Russian wealth and glamour collide with a wild west of new digital landscapes. As Sergei tries and fails to raise the alarm, this intoxicating cocktail – shaken and stirred from within the Russian Embassy in London – masks the tightening iron fist of Vladimir Putin inside Russia and murder of traitors on foreign soil. All while MPs, intelligence officers and the police turn a blind eye.
Not since the reach of the Cambridge spy ring in the second half of the 20th century has the Kremlin aimed so high and gone so unnoticed in penetrating the highest echelons of British politics.
Together, Conservative whistleblower Sergei Cristo, Orwell Prize-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr and creator of the hit podcast, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, Peter Jukes, uncover a story that forms one small corner of Vladimir Putin’s plot against the West.
It’s a story we’re still living, where the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Credits:
Written and presented by Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes, with Ruth Abrahams.
Produced and sound design by Ruth Abrahams.
Original music by Phil Channell.
Studio production by Sean Byrne-Roberts.
Location production by Sheridan Flynn and Manasa Narayanan.
Mixed by Nigel Appleton.
Catch the Citizens Reunited Live with the cast of Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring (ft. Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes)
This podcast is part of our ongoing campaign calling for the UK government to act on The Russia Report which in 2020 declared Russian interference in the UK ‘the new normal” and reported “credible attempts” to interfere with the UK’s electoral processes from at least the time of the EU referendum in 2016. The Intelligence and Security Committee called for an investigation and an updated legal and institutional framework to protect those processes from foreign interference. Later that year the Citizens and a group of MPs and peers began legal action against the government. It failed in the High Court and now with the European Court of Human Rights and has been marked an impact case with significance across all members states. You can read more about it here.
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