Foul Play

Having uncovered a final piece of the puzzle buried in a dusty archive in Missouri, Ed and Gabriel reunite in the English Midlands to bring their findings back to the Banks family. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Enjoying the series? Subscribe to Audible to binge all 7 episodes ad-free, right now. This episode contains references to pregnancy loss and psychological abuse. Please take care while listening. Gabriel takes a deep dive into the CIA’s long history with poisons and finds evidence that looks like a smoking gun. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...

Enjoying the series? Subscribe to Audible to binge all 7 episodes ad-free, right now. This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence. Please take care when listening. This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence. Please take care when listening. Gabriel is nursing suspicions that wayward behaviour by the players might have been the actual cause of Gordon Banks’ illness. So, Ed...

Enjoying the series? Subscribe to Audible to binge all 7 episodes ad-free, right now. Gabriel is on the hunt for a secret memoir written by an American spy in Mexico. He’s looking for clues about a CIA operation to poison an English footballer, only to find his story mixed up with the mother of all conspiracy theories: the JFK assassination. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...

Enjoying the series? Subscribe to Audible to binge all 7 episodes ad-free, right now. Ed and Gabriel travel to Mexico, the ‘scene of the crime.’ Ed is convinced his grandfather was the victim of a conspiracy. But Gabriel has unearthed the notes of the England team doctor, which tell a different story. The tension between them is punctured by a sensational discovery in the archives of the Mexican s...

Enjoying the series? Subscribe to Audible to binge all 7 episodes ad-free, right now. Why would the CIA want to sabotage England’s chances of winning the World Cup? While Gabriel delves into the secret archives of the Cold War, Ed remembers an unsolved footballing mystery that might be more important than he first thought. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...

Enjoying the series? Subscribe to Audible to binge all 7 episodes ad-free, right now. Ed needs help. He’s heard that the CIA poisoned his grandfather, legendary goalkeeper Gordon Banks. True, Banks did get ill with food poisoning at the World Cup in Mexico in 1970, causing England to crash out. Investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse is sceptical at first. But when Ed’s mum Wendy drops a tantal...

Ed is the grandson of footballing legend Gordon Banks. He was a national icon, the only goalkeeper ever to win the soccer World Cup for England. But Ed’s heard a rumour: that in 1970, while defending the title, his granddad, his hero, was poisoned… by the CIA. All part of a Cold War plot to bolster a military dictatorship in Latin America, supposedly. Could this possibly be true? Banks did get ill...