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Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:57:48
Publish Date: 2025-04-16 05:00:00
Description:
Sam Leith’s guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, whose new book 38 Londres Street describes the legal and diplomatic tussle over the potential extradition of the former Chilean dictator General Pinochet. Philippe tells Sam why the case was such an important one in legal history, and presents new evidence suggesting that the General’s release to Chile on health grounds may have been part of a behind-the-scenes stitch-up between the UK and Chilean governments. He sets out some of that evidence and pushes back on our reviewer Jonathan Sumption’s scepticism about the case. Here’s an old case, but not yet a cold case.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Patrick Gibbons.
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