A Long Time in Finance: the John Stonehouse affair
Neil and Jonathan look at the extraordinary financial dealings that led to Stonehouse's disappearance.
On 21 November 1974, an obscure backbench MP, John Stonehouse, went for a swim off Miami Beach and disappeared. So began an extraordinary tale of banking fraud, money laundering, spying and identity theft, which unravelled over the following month, ending in Stonehouse's exposure and arrest and making him one of the most famous MPs in the world.
Together with the author Philip Augar, Neil and Jonathan look at Stonehouse's political life and the extraordinary financial dealings that led to his disappearance.