The Village

About The Village

Season 4: The untold story of the murder of Darren Bradshaw, a gay police officer in Northern Ireland in 1997 and how the LGBT community fought back against prejudice during the Troubles. From BBC. The Village investigates unresolved — and often underreported — cases of missing and murdered individuals in queer communities across Canada and beyond. Hear episodes early and ad-free on CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts. Season 1 | The cases of missing and murdered men in Toronto's gay community. Season 2 | The unexplained deaths of Alloura Wells and Cassandra Do, the communities that loved them, and the systems that failed them. Season 3 | For many men, being in – or out – of the closet during the AIDS epidemic was the difference between life and death. In Montreal, unsolved murders stack up. And in the absence of police protection, a community of activists are forced to take matters into their own hands. Season 4 | The untold story of the murder of a gay police officer in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Publisher

CBC

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Apr 2019

Latest episode

28 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Oct 2025

   The Village Introduces: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

   In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. Even so, the narrative became embedded in our cultural memory, warping everything it touched — including the lives of innocent people… And it never quite died out. In a new 8-part series, Sarah Marshall (You’re Wrong About) explores the tangled web of the Satanic Panic, in a journey that will take you everywhere from Victoria, B.C. to rural Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas. This is a show about the people who experienced the Satanic Panic in real-time — the believers, the skeptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully-convicted. What was it like to be a psychologist told to look for Satanists in every case; a mother slowly recovering memories of supposed Satanic abuse; a teenager accused of conspiracy to murder? The stories of these eyewitnesses point us toward the real underlying problems — individual and societal — that the Panic was a response to. The fault, as ever, was not with Satanists, but in ourselves. You can find more episodes of The Devil You Know wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/TDYKxVillage (https://link.mgln.ai/TDYKxVillage)

2. 

   23 Jun 2025

   Blood on the Dance Floor, E5: Ripples

   Fingers are pointed at who could have betrayed Darren. Did it come from the inside?

3. 

   23 Jun 2025

   Blood on the Dance Floor, E6: Take Back the City

   While peace transforms the country, the twists continue in the story.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

198 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

164 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

99

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