Ep. 46 Dark Money
Listen now
Description
Peter Geoghegan is standing on a train station platform when he sees it - a large advert in a free-sheet newspaper that will set him off on an investigation into the dark world of campaign spending. In this episode we hear how he worked to unravel the secrets behind the Brexit campaigning by Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party - as he attempts to follow their funding to the source. Read all about it: Peter’s book Democracy For Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics is out now https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Peter-Geoghegan/Democracy-for-Sale--Dark-Money-and-Dirty-Politics/24069555  Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan Theme music: Dice Muse    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
More Episodes
A tragedy in the English Channel got Aaron Walawalkar thinking. How could it be that people were dying, their boats sinking in one of the busiest stretches of water in the world? This is how Liberty Investigates went to battle over FOI rejections, knocked on doors and analysed shipping data to...
Published 10/23/23
Published 10/23/23
The horizon near Ali’s house is filled with flames. Owen Pinnell and Jess Kelly, from BBC Arabic, can't stop thinking of them. And back in the UK, Unearthed's Joe Sandler Clarke is digging into his own investigation. This is the story of how journalists worked with citizen journalists and...
Published 08/08/23