The Dirty Lie Podcast
The Dirty Lie Podcast
twotruthsandadirtylie
Where fact is stranger than fiction
”Mummy I’ve Done A Coup”- President’s Children Misbehaving
From Mark Thatcher's coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea to Alice Roosevelt getting banned from the White House.    Timestamps:  Episode kicks off 6 mins in  Mark Thatcher's coup 36 mins in    Enjoy !
Nov 15, 2023
1 hr 5 min
Mummy I’ve done a Coup - Trailer
Nov 13, 2023
3 min
The Wild West: Awolowo v Akintola
The Western Region Crisis, this week on the dirty lie pod!
Sep 20, 2023
41 min
Kolanut v Coconut: An Election Petition Puts a Justice in Trouble
Twenty years ago-  The Uba Brothers, some 'Ghana-must-go bags' and the Anambra South Senatorial seat
Aug 16, 2023
33 min
The Kidnapping of A Sitting Governor (Ngige, Anambra & The Uba Brothers)
On the 10th of July 2003, barely two months after he was sworn in as Governor, Chris Ngige is held at Gunpoint and asked to resign from office... Enjoy
Aug 9, 2023
1 hr 4 min
Dictators Daughters:Dead Husbands and Machine Guns (rerun)
Italy's Benito Mussolini fainted when Edda Mussolini was born, but did he go on to kill her husband? In Iraq Saddam Hussein's first daughter Raghad Hussein was given the nickname 'Godmother of Terror' in a newspaper, but did she support her father after he killed her husband? and in Haiti, did Marie-Denise Duvalier, threaten her father Francois Duvalier, one of the longest serving dictators of Haiti with a machine gun, to save her husband's life? Special dictator-daughter mentions; Aisha Qaddafi of Libya and Zoia Ceaușescu of Romania.  Daughters are said to hold a special place in their Dad's hearts, so what happens when the father is a Dictator?  And why all these dead husbands?   This Week's Figures:  Francois Duvalier, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Benito Mussolini,(and their daughters),  Hitler, Goebbels, Winston Churchill, JFK, Mohammed Al-Fayed, King Hussein
Aug 2, 2023
1 hr
The Assassination of Dele Giwa & Conspiracy Theories
A bomb went off on Talabi street in Ikeja, Lagos that shook Nigeria to it's core.. we explore the details of this unsolved murder of the journalist, Dele Giwa
Jul 19, 2023
1 hr 12 min
The Beauty Queens of Crime: The Manacled Mormon, El Chapo and The Pregnant Shooter
A beauty queen flies from Utah to London and kidnaps a Mormon Missionary; Another Marries El Chapo and joins the Sinaloa Cartel; Another, while 7months pregnant opens fire in broad daylight in an act of revenge.
Jul 12, 2023
1 hr 1 min
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