Documentary · The Telegraph
by The Telegraph
A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army, who ran the notorious agent Stakeknife. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder? The first and second series of Bed of Lies are also available to listen to on this feed: Series 2: It was meant to be a miracle treatment, but it became a deadly poison. Cara investigates the biggest medical disaster in NHS history, the infected blood scandal. Series 1: They have the perfect relationship, until one day he vanishes. Her hunt leads to other women just like her - and a web of state-spun lies. Cara investigates the untold story of the "spycops" and the undercover policing scandal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Season 1: I still can’t believe this could happen in the UK in my lifetime. The last episode does a fine job of bringing us up to the present, and showing how the tables have turned. Cara is a podcasting prodigy. I’m sure she had help from a good production team. This is one of the all-time best podcasts I’ve heard.
The stories in both seasons (1 and 2) were horrifying. It’s terrible what our fellow man will justify. Season 1 was a bit hard for me to follow at first because the podcast did jump around a bit. But the story was definitely worth listening to. Season 2 did jump around a bit as well but it was easier for me to follow. I had heard about the tainted blood but I always thought that it was a mistake and things were remedied after the information was discovered. I’m enraged to hear the real story and my heart goes out to everyone affected. I am hoping there will be a season 3 and…!
Thank you for informing people about the bizarre cases of undercover police who lead double lives. I originally heard about this issue from the British Scandals podcast, which directed me here wanting to learn more. The stories of the wives, the other women, and even the officers themselves are all tragic in their own way, and this Bed of Lies podcast does a great job of showing many different sides to this story. I hope Kara will continue to update this podcast as more information is revealed in the future.
Great deep dive into a fascinating story. I found this via the British Scandal podcast, which also covered this story wonderfully but in slightly less detail. It’s a testament to how engaging it is that I binged all of season 1 even though I had JUST heard the same story in another pod. Keep it up please!
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