Show Notes
December 1977: The Sunday Times correspondent David Holden lands in Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel. Hours later he’s found dead near the airport - shot with a single bullet to the heart.
Decades later, Peter Gillman retraces Holden’s final days, uncovering a planned abduction, missing telexes, and an espionage tangle between Whitehall, the CIA and the KGB.
Host: Manveen Rana
Guests: Peter Gillman, former The Sunday Times reporter and co-author of Murder in Cairo, Emanuele Midolo, reporter, The Times and The Sunday Times and co-author of Murder in Cairo
Clips: ITN, Getty, Truth Tellers.
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