Bed of Lies
Hosted by Cara McGoogan · The Telegraph
4.9from 1,293 ratings
- 34
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 1,293
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Bed of Lies
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 (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The Telegraph
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 28 Nov 2025
Latest episodes
13 of 34 episodes have a transcript.
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Murder in the Masai Mara | Episode 1, SOS
Published 28 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And there are more files, shelves and shelves of them. If you want a transcript for a trial, it's here. It feels a bit like a police incident room. Every letter is here. Every teller except every freedom of information. It's all here, all in order. So there is an enormous amount of reading or investigating to do. The reason Bob's family has amassed this archive of documents that this incident room exists is that 37 years ago, Julie traveled to the mass -imara and never came back. The question of what happened to her has dominated the world's lives ever since. Her father, John, devoted decades to trying to answer that question. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
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Cara McGoogan host the show. Published by The Telegraph.
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