London Falling Part 1:  The Fall - The Saturday Story

伦敦坠落篇一:坠落——周六的故事

The Story

2026-04-11

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In this special two part podcast, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, Gabriel Pogrund, is joined by the preeminent investigative journalist and author Patrick Radden Keefe. On a cold November night in 2019, 19 year old Zac Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury London apartment. Police concluded it was suicide, however, under Radden Keefe's forensic microscope together with Gabriel's own Sunday Times investigation, serious questions are raised about what really happened that night, and whether it was suicide after all. It's a tale rooted in London's criminal underground, and now the subject of Radden Keefe's latest book, London Falling. In this episode we hear about how a young man, born into a wealthy family, become embroiled with a notorious London gangster. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory Host: Gabriel Pogrund - Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe Producer: Dave Creasey. Executive Producer: Kate Ford We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com Read more: The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it Photo: The Times, design by Cecilia Tombesi. Click here to buy London Falling at the times bookshop. This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • I'm Gabriel Pogrand.

  • On a cold November night in 2019, 19-year-old Zach Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury apartment

  • on the south bank of the Thames, directly opposite MI6 headquarters.

  • Zach was a smart, affable young man from a loving family who had got mixed up with some very dangerous people.

  • After an investigation in which police repeatedly returned to the idea that he had killed himself,

  • they failed to bring any charges.

  • But five years later, the story reached one of the great reporters of our time, Patrick Ruddon Keith.

  • I think that they have an impulse to say, OK, young boy goes off the balcony, looks like he jumps.

  • So what is that?

  • Well, that's a suicide.

  • I would argue that what happened to Zach Brettler falls in a kind of zone in between those two.

  • It's something more ambiguous.