Last Orders
The world's wildest true stories, told before the bell rings.Grab a pint and pull up a stool. It's nearly closing time, and we've got one more story you won't believe.Every week, Last Orders takes the most outrageous true tales on the planet (billion-dollar frauds, unsolved mysteries, mad geniuses and spectacular disasters) and tells them the way they should be told: like your cleverest mate down the pub who somehow knows everything.How did a guy in cargo shorts lose $8 billion? Who invented Bitcoin and then vanished into thin air? Why do very smart people keep making very stupid...
The Louvre Heist: How Thieves Stole $102 Million in Crown Jewels in 8 Minutes (With a Furniture Lift)
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How did thieves rob the Louvre in 8 minutes? A furniture lift, an angle grinder, $102M of crown jewels and a dropped crown. The wildest heist in years.
How do you rob the most famous museum in the world? Apparently you turn up on a Sunday morning in broad daylight and park a furniture lift outside. Then you cut through a window, smash two display cases with an angle grinder and ride off on scooters with $102 million of French crown jewels. It takes about eight minutes. Not bad for a morning’s wo...
Russell Brand Guilty: How a Comedy Star Ended Up Jailed for Rape (The Verdict Explained in 2 Minutes)
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Russell Brand was one of Britain’s most famous entertainers: a stand-up comedian, MTV and BBC presenter, Hollywood star and Katy Perry’s husband. Later he reinvented himself as a wellness guru and anti-establishment commentator with millions of followers. In November 2026, a jury at Southwark Crown Court found him guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. It cleared him of two further rape counts and one count of attempted indecent assault. He has been sentenced to 10 years and 6 months.
In this 15-minute episode of Last Orders, we s...
Did a Chinese Spy Get Close to Jensen Huang? Nvidia, Megaspeed & the AI Chip War : Part 1
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Did a suspected Chinese spy get close to Nvidia's Jensen Huang? We unpack the NYT report, the denials and the AI chip war behind it.
In June 2024, photos appeared online of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the leather-jacketed boss of the world's most valuable chipmaker, sharing drinks in a Taipei bar with a businesswoman called Alice Huang. A few weeks later, her Singapore company, Megaspeed, began buying Nvidia chips. Two years later, the New York Times reported that US intelligence suspected she was a Chinese intelligence asset.
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The Man Who Invented Bitcoin and Vanished | Satoshi Nakamoto
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? The anonymous inventor of Bitcoin mined about a million BTC, then vanished in 2011. We investigate the suspects and the story.
In 2008, someone using that name published the Bitcoin whitepaper and launched the world’s first cryptocurrency. Then they disappeared, leaving coins now worth tens of billions untouched. More than 15 years later, nobody knows who invented Bitcoin. In this episode of Last Orders, we dig into the birth of Bitcoin and hunt for the real Satoshi. Expect true-crime energy, pub-quiz facts and plenty of jokes, with no maths de...
What Happened to MH370? The Plane That Vanished & the Search for Answers
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What happened to MH370? In 2014 a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board vanished. We explore the evidence, the theories and the latest search for answers.
On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. Less than an hour later, it disappeared. In a world where your phone knows exactly where you are, an airliner simply vanished, and more than a decade later it still hasn’t been found. In this episode of Last Orders, we investigate aviation’s greatest unsolved mystery. We tell it with curiosity and with respect for the pass...
Sam Bankman-Fried & the FTX Collapse: How Crypto’s Golden Boy Lost $8 Billion
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What happened to FTX? Sam Bankman-Fried went from crypto billionaire to prison in one of history’s biggest frauds. Here’s the wild true story of SBF.
He was crypto’s golden boy. He was a billionaire before 30, appeared on magazine covers and in front of Congress, had his name on a stadium and got Larry David into his Super Bowl ad. Then, in a single week in November 2022, FTX collapsed. Around $8 billion of customers’ money was missing, and SBF went from “the next Warren Buffett” to a 25-year prison sentence. In this epis...
