Bed of Lies
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
Episodes
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Episode 5 | Missing Debbie
With Nottinghamshire Police now investigating the disappearance of Debbie Cooper, it soon becomes clear she never left the country and Jamie has been travelling alone for years. Investigators slowly unravel his lies, but critical questions remain: what did he do to Debbie and how can they get…
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Episode 4 | Missing Debbie
As Debbie’s family and friends await news from the police, Jamie is enjoying an international backpacking trip across Europe, Asia and the Americas. To the people he meets on his travels, he plays the role of chatty, opinionated traveller who reveals very little about his personal life. But…
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Episode 3 | Missing Debbie
A year into the worldwide honeymoon, Jamie begins a cynical travel blog called Diary of a Misanthrope. Back in Nottingham, it sets off alarm bells with Debbie’s friends who can’t see any photos or mentions of her. They fear she’s vanished. Matthew and Andy start to investigate and they find a…
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Episode 2 | Missing Debbie
Debbie and Jamie are getting married, but family and friends aren’t invited. They exchange vows in front of a handful of guests, then announce they’re setting off on a round-the-world honeymoon. They vanish onto the backpacker trail without getting their wedding presents, photos, or saying…
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Episode 1 | Missing Debbie
When Debbie Cooper turns 40, she’s finally ready to find love and settle down, putting years of wanderlust behind her. She falls in love with awkward, geeky Jamie Starbuck and their relationship moves very quickly. But Debbie’s friends and family feel uncomfortable around him, and the new couple...
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Introducing Missing Debbie, a new series of Bed of Lies
Coming soon, on October 23rd.
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Murder in the Masai Mara | Episode 1, SOS
On a cold February day in 1988, Julie Ward sets off on the journey of a lifetime from England, through Africa. She establishes a new life in the bustling capital of Kenya but mysteriously disappears while on safari - leaving her plane ticket back to England untouched on a table in her Nairobi…
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Introducing: Murder in the Masai Mara
When Julie Ward vanishes mysteriously in the Masai Mara in 1988, her father begins a hunt for answers that stretches from a safari lodge in Kenya to MI6’s headquarters in London. The case was never solved. Nearly four decades on, The Telegraph Deputy Investigations Editor Katherine Rushton pours...
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Legacy | 9
Peace walls, segregated schools and old enemies living on the same street. Cara returns to Northern Ireland to see how, today, The Troubles are far from forgotten history. A victim of Stakeknife breaks his silence and, like so many others, he wants to know the truth about his father’s murder. As...
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Devastation | 8
A family forced to flee abroad. A young soldier killed by a car bomb. Two teenagers gunned down in a mobile shop. As Cara exposes the cold-bloodedness of both sides in the Troubles, she finds out the extent of the state's lethal spy network. Bereaved families hunt for justice, and the truth is...
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Cover-up | 7
IRA spycatcher Freddie Scappaticci has been outed as FRU agent Stakeknife – but he’s not going to disappear without a fight. The British state takes unprecedented measures to make sure their spy gets away with murder. Cara teams up with veteran reporter John Ware to reveal just how high up the...
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License to Kill | 6
Brian Nelson is finally in the dock for his campaign of murderous violence, but will he face justice? The question sends shivers through the British government, and the answer causes even more of a stir. But Brian is just the tip of the iceberg – there’s a new battle, shocking revelations, and a...
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Handlers | 5
Cara tracks down soldiers from the covert unit of the British army at the heart of her investigation. As these people who handled spies in the IRA and loyalist paramilitaries spill their secrets, it becomes clear that Agent 6137 and Scap are just the tip of the iceberg. Betrayal, sex, murder. Was...
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Touts | 4
The IRA creates a new unit to root out informers – or touts – and kill them. A man known as Scap quickly rises to the top of this ‘Nutting Squad’ and builds up a fearsome reputation for cruelty. But he is hiding a dark secret – and the implications of the truth being exposed are enormous. Archive...
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Agent 6137 | 3
Facing life in prison for murder, a key loyalist makes a surprising confession: he is Agent 6137. When he targeted people for the UDA to assassinate, he was also working for the British. The daughter of one of his victims hunts for the truth about his life as a spy – but as she and Cara dig…
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Collusion | 2
Top detectives race to untangle a web of lies behind the murders. But just as they’re about to arrest a key loyalist suspect, their secure office containing top-secret evidence goes up in flames. They hear whispers that a clandestine unit of the British army could be behind the sabotage. All to...
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Trouble | 1
Three innocent Catholic men are shot dead in front of their families by a brutal Protestant paramilitary group hunting the IRA. Even in the dark days of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the murders shock the nation. Then it emerges the gunmen aren’t working alone. Cara McGoogan is determined to...
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Introducing Bed of Lies: Conflict
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. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and...
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Final Report
Over the last three years, Cara McGoogan has kept in touch with the people impacted by the Infected Blood Scandal who she spoke to for Series 2 of Bed of Lies. On Monday 20th May those victims finally heard how Sir Brian Langstaff, Chair of the inquiry, interpreted the evidence he’s heard over…
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Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 2
Listen to this extract from the host of Bed of Lies Cara McGoogan's new book: The Poison Line (UK) and Blood Farm (US). Developed from the second series of this podcast, Bed of Lies: Blood, The Poison Line gives the full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in history –…
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Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 1
Listen to this extract from the host of Bed of Lies Cara McGoogan's new book: The Poison Line (UK) and Blood Farm (US). Developed from the second series of this podcast, Bed of Lies: Blood, The Poison Line gives the full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in history –…
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Introducing: Call Bethel
Brave whistleblowers. A trail of data. A secret system for dealing with allegations of child abuse. Bed of Lies' Cara McGoogan introduces a new podcast from the Telegraph, Call Bethel. Follow the Telegraph's Investigations team on their year-long hunt into the Jehovah's Witnesses. For 30 days’…
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Retribution, Part 2
Every month, more names are added to the list of survivors. But with every year, more names on that list succumb to their illnesses. Will the Inquiry bring them justice before it’s too late? In this final instalment of the series, they lay bare the shattering impact of this bed of lies. Read…
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Retribution, Part 1
A letter leads to a lawsuit – and a big development in our story. After years of feeling silenced, British survivors are making their voices heard. But will those accountable finally listen? Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/notebook Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the…
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Violation
Plasma is a life saver - and a lucrative industry. One that made fortunes and cost lives. But what was really going on behind closed doors? A whistleblower reveals all. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/notebook Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to...
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Fabrication
If you knock on enough doors, eventually one will open. Tireless investigators trace the infected blood from the arms of people with haemophilia back to the room where it all began – in that American prison. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/notebook Sign up to our most popular…
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Confrontation
Sadness turns to anger; anger to action. The survivors fight back, but for each confrontation, there's a coverup. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/notebook Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest...
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Experimentation
Medicine is a game of risk, and few have seen the cost of getting it wrong as clearly as one group of boys. Whispers, a terrifying newspaper headline and then a stark message: a deadly virus is in their school. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular...
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Infection
Two young couples, two shock diagnoses. Our story begins with Clair, Bryan, Frankie and Joe - and four young lives turned upside down. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/notebook Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and…
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Introducing Bed of Lies: Blood
It begins in a maximum security prison in Louisiana – and it ends in thousands of deaths. This is the story of people poisoned, families torn apart by grief and a mass cover up. Cara McGoogan investigates one of the biggest medical disasters in history. The second series of the award-winning...
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Inquiry, Part 2
The spycops' relationships were built on a bed of lies – including their marriages. In this final episode of the series, we hear about the shattering impact of the undercover policing scandal. And the truth catches up with the men. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to…
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Inquiry, Part 1
Police spies have infiltrated homes – and hearts. Now, they face a public inquiry. But why did they dupe women into relationships in the first place? Who sanctioned it? And will all the women and children involved finally receive an apology? Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies |...
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Fightback
Each woman has a fragment of the truth. When they put the pieces together, the true scale of the deception starts to emerge. But as they edge closer to the full story, there's an obstacle in the way: the police. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular...
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Tradecraft
It’s a thin line between spying and meddling. And it’s one that's only faintly drawn in the manual once given to new undercover police officers - written by a familiar name. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward…
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Uncovered
The mask slips, the relationships unravel, and as lies are uncovered, so too are the men behind them. Plus, for the very first time, our stories collide. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving...
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Breakdown
One by one, the men vanish. As the search begins, the girlfriends start to question what they’re really looking for - and who they’re actually in love with. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving...
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Secrecy
The perfect relationships are free of secrets. But these aren’t the perfect relationships. As the years go by, things begin to unravel - starting with the men themselves. Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to...
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Infatuation
It’s one of Britain’s biggest secrets, and it begins with a love story. Young activists united in their fight for justice. But then, cracks start to form. What’s real, what isn’t and where do the lies begin? Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/bedoflies Sign up to our most popular…
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Introducing Bed of Lies: Love
They thought they had found their soulmates – but they were all in love with a lie. Cara McGoogan tells the story of one of Britain's biggest secrets, with the women who unearthed the truth. Stolen identity, spies and heartbreak – sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction.
About this show
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.
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