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The Mystery Of...
by BBC Radio Ulster
True crime stories.
Episodes
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2. Unusual Suspects
In the summer of 1907, days before a Royal visit, the Irish Crown Jewels vanish from Dublin Castle. The theft triggers a scandal that rocks the British establishment and captures public attention on both sides of the Irish Sea. The safe in which they were kept is intact, and there are no shortage...
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1. Security Breach
In the summer of 1907, days before a royal visit, the Irish Crown Jewels vanish from Dublin Castle. The theft triggers a scandal that rocks the British establishment and captures public attention on both sides of the Irish Sea. The safe in which they were kept is intact, and there are no shortage...
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Episode 6
While Gaunt searches for someone to blame, Churchill downplays the figures of stolen munitions in the House of Commons. Michael Collins suspects British collusion, and with the IRA now armed for civil war, Sean O’Hegarty makes a huge decision. Narrator: Demi Isaac Readings by: Gavan Casey, John...
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Episode 5
As Sean O’Hegarty’s elaborate plan for unloading the munitions is in full swing, Admiral Ernest Gaunt learns about The Upnor’s seizure, more than 24 hours after the events at Ballycotton. Soon he’ll face the wrath of Winston Churchill and Michael Collins. Narrator: Demi Isaac Readings by: Gavan...
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Episode 4
If the pirates are to capture the Upnor, the captive captain, Jeremiah Collins, is their only hope. They change course and aim to cut the ship off before it reaches England. But if they succeed, are they prepared for the dangerous waters that await them at Ballycotton Harbour? Narrator: Demi…
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Episode 3
With the Upnor disappearing on the horizon, the IRA pirates scramble to find a tugboat to follow it out to sea. They are given a sliver of hope when a boat docks in Cobh but is it too late? Meanwhile, unaware of the delay, O’Hegarty makes his way to Ballycotton with a convoy of vehicles and...
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Episode 2
Sean O’Hegarty puts together a crew in an attempt to seize The Upnor at sea. The ship is carrying 120 tonnes of weapons and is their only chance at arming for an inevitable civil war with Michael Collins’ national army. With a plan in place, they head to Cobh and events are set in motion. But...
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Episode 1
In March 1922, a British Naval ship carrying 120 tons of weapons and ammunition is put to sea but never reaches its destination. In fact, it has vanished on its voyage from Cork to Plymouth. Irish Revolutionary turned leader, Michael Collins, is greatly concerned at the ship’s disappearance....
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Episode 10
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 9
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 8
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 7
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 5
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 6
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 4
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 3
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 2
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 1
1990. In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, four masked men seize an elderly Lord in his home. Tying him up, they carry out an audacious £1m antiques heist – still reputed to be the biggest ever in Northern Ireland. Then they flee in a car and van. Rewards are offered, but to no…
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Episode 3 - The Retreat to Mount Stewart
In November 1938 Jewish shops and businesses are brutally attacked in several days of pogroms in what became known as Kristillnacht. Charles’ position of trying to build good relations with the Nazi leadership now becomes untenable. He has a bruising showdown with his cousin, Winston Churchill…
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Episode 2 - The Road to War
Prominent Nazi, Joachim von Ribbentrop, visits the Londonderrys again – this time at their stately home in the North East of England. But the German ambassador is on the point of giving a Nazi salute in Durham Cathedral and just in time Charles, Lord Londonderry, grabs his arm to avoid an...
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Episode 1 - Friends or Foes?
Spring 1936. A man falls into Strangford Lough and has to be fished out. It is a huge humiliation for Hitler’s leading diplomat, Joachim von Ribbentrop. But some say this story is just a myth. Claims and counter-claims swirl around Charles, Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Edith because of...
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Episode 6 – To Catch a Thief
A retired police officer looks back on his younger days, catching criminals and working cases on the streets of West Belfast. As the city awakens from World War II, with sectarian tensions simmering in the background, Constable Jack Walsh must navigate the narrow streets of the ‘Loney’ in search…
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Episode 5 - Down the Courts
A retired police officer looks back on his younger days, catching criminals and working cases on the streets of West Belfast. As the city awakens from World War II, with sectarian tensions simmering in the background, Constable Jack Walsh must navigate the narrow streets of the ‘Loney’ in search…
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Episode 4 - The Crystal Ball
A retired police officer looks back on his younger days, catching criminals and working cases on the streets of West Belfast. As the city awakens from World War II, with sectarian tensions simmering in the background, Constable Jack Walsh must navigate the narrow streets of the ‘Loney’ in search…
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Episode 3 - Night Shift
A retired police officer looks back on his younger days, catching criminals and working cases on the streets of West Belfast. As the city awakens from World War II, with sectarian tensions simmering in the background, Constable Jack Walsh must navigate the narrow streets of the ‘Loney’ in search…
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Episode 2 - The Money Lender
A retired police officer looks back on his younger days, catching criminals and working cases on the streets of West Belfast. As the city awakens from World War II, with sectarian tensions simmering in the background, Constable Jack Walsh must navigate the narrow streets of the ‘Loney’ in search…
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Episode 1 - The Forger
A retired police officer looks back on his younger days, catching criminals and working cases on the streets of West Belfast. As the city awakens from World War II, with sectarian tensions simmering in the background, Constable Jack Walsh must navigate the narrow streets of the ‘Loney’ in search…
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Corymore
Episode 2/2 - Corymore The Mystery Of…Murder, She Wrote peels back the layers of a Hollywood icon to reveal the woman behind the oversized glasses of Jessica Fletcher around what would have been her 100th birthday. Through interviews with those who knew her, lifelong fan Sarah McGlinchey embarks…
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Angela Brigid Lansbury
Episode 1/2 – Angela Brigid Lansbury The Mystery Of…Murder, She Wrote peels back the layers of a Hollywood icon to reveal the woman behind the oversized glasses of Jessica Fletcher around what would have been her 100th birthday. Through interviews with those who knew her, lifelong fan Sarah...
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Episode 3 – Hum’s the word
Have you ever heard a sound and not quite known what it is? It can be irritating and even unsettling. Now, imagine a lot of people in the same town begin to hear that sound? A hum – one that certainly merits further investigation. Enter self-professed slacker and Omagh-native, Phil Taggart, to…
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Episode 2 – Through the looking glass
Have you ever heard a sound and not quite known what it is? It can be irritating and even unsettling. Now, imagine a lot of people in the same town begin to hear that sound? A hum – one that certainly merits further investigation. Enter self-professed slacker and Omagh-native, Phil Taggart, to…
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Episode 1 - A Buzz About the Hum
Have you ever heard a sound and not quite known what it is? It can be irritating and even unsettling. Now, imagine a lot of people in the same town begin to hear that sound. It is a hum – one that merits further investigation. Enter self-professed slacker and Omagh-native, Phil Taggart, to get to...
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Episode 4 - The Party’s Over
Does every urban myth contain a kernel of truth? Rumours have been rife for years that a network of tunnels stacked with barrels of whiskey worth millions of pounds exist under Holywood in County Down. Local journalist Jordan Dunbar is on a mission to distil the truth of it all with the promise…
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Episode 3 - The Golden Years
Does every urban myth contain a kernel of truth? Rumours have been rife for years that a network of tunnels stacked with barrels of whiskey worth millions of pounds exist under Holywood in County Down. Local journalist Jordan Dunbar is on a mission to distil the truth of it all with the promise…
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Episode 2 - The Big House
Does every urban myth contain a kernel of truth? Rumours have been rife for years that a network of tunnels stacked with barrels of whiskey worth millions of pounds exist under Holywood in County Down. Local journalist Jordan Dunbar is on a mission to distil the truth of it all with the promise…
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Episode 1 - Tunnels
Does every urban myth contain a kernel of truth? Rumours have been rife for years that a network of tunnels stacked with barrels of whiskey worth millions of pounds exist under Holywood in County Down. Local journalist Jordan Dunbar is on a mission to distil the truth of it all with the promise…
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Episode 2 - Black Notice
‘Peter Bergmann’ isn’t his real name. The Vienna address he gives at the hotel doesn’t exist. Bags seen on CCTV are never found, including a purple plastic bag he is seen with 13 times over three days. What was in it? Where did he empty it? And why all the secrecy? Irish Times journalist Rosita...
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Episode 1 - Dead Man’s Point
‘Peter Bergmann’ isn’t his real name. The Vienna address he gives at the hotel doesn’t exist. Bags seen on CCTV are never found, including a purple plastic bag he is seen with 13 times over three days. What was in it? Where did he empty it? And why all the secrecy? Irish Times journalist Rosita...
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The Lady with the Ring
European folklore is full of crossover. Stories with the same themes, heroes and villains told across the continent for centuries. Are they myth? Legends? Or do some have an aspect of historical credibility? The Lady with the Ring is one of these stories, told in Germany, Scandinavia and more…
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Episode 4 - Defiance in the Old Bailey
Roger Casement is sent to the Tower of London and then put on trial at the Old Bailey. Things go from bad to worse as his infamous Black Diaries are brought to light by the British government. As defence and prosecution teams battle it out, the odds seem stacked against him. The jury delivers its...
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Episode 3 - Breakdown in Germany
Roger Casement plays a central role in the formation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. One of the public faces, he travels around Ireland to raise support for this nationalist organisation. As his political commitment grows, he also masterminds the importing of guns for the Volunteers into Howth...
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Episode 2 - Triumph in the Amazon
By the early years of the twentieth century, Roger Casement has become known for his humanitarian work exposing the atrocities of the rubber industry in the Congo. But other causes he supports are much closer to home. In 1904 he helps organise the Feis na nGleann in Cushendall – part of a...
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Episode 1 - Searching for his place in the world
Roger Casement became a household name in Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century. But his childhood gives no hint of what is to come. Born in Dublin on 1st September 1864, his early life is a hand to mouth existence. His father is a retired army Captain which qualifies him to be seen as a...
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Episode 4 - Conspiracy
April 1881. The west of Ireland is steeped in poverty and caught in the middle of a Land War. Local herds, father and son John and Martin Lydon, are dragged from their beds in Letterfrack, Co Galway, beaten and shot. John dies immediately, but Martin survives long enough to identify one of his...
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Episode 3 - Sins of the Brother
April 1881. The west of Ireland is steeped in poverty and caught in the middle of a Land War. Local herds, father and son John and Martin Lydon, are dragged from their beds in Letterfrack, Co Galway, beaten and shot. John dies immediately, but Martin survives long enough to identify one of his...
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Episode 2 - The Prosecution Rests
April 1881. The west of Ireland is steeped in poverty and caught in the middle of a Land War. Local herds, father and son John and Martin Lydon, are dragged from their beds in Letterfrack, Co Galway, beaten and shot. John dies immediately, but Martin survives long enough to identify one of his...
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Episode 1 - A Dying Declaration
April 1881. The west of Ireland is steeped in poverty and caught in the middle of a Land War. Local herds, father and son John and Martin Lydon, are dragged from their beds in Letterfrack, Co Galway, beaten and shot. John dies immediately, but Martin survives long enough to identify one of his...
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Episode 3 - Searching for answers
April 1895. Lady Theresa Londonderry is the foremost political influencer of her day, holding court for part of the year at Mount Stewart house on the shores of Strangford Lough in County Down. While she brings her powerful personal influence to bear on the aristocracy and politicians of the day,...
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Episode 2 - A boat disappears on the lough
April 1895. Lady Theresa Londonderry is the foremost political influencer of her day, holding court for part of the year at Mount Stewart house on the shores of Strangford Lough in County Down. While she brings her powerful personal influence to bear on the aristocracy and politicians of the day,...
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Episode 1 - The grand dame and her loyal team
April 1895. Lady Theresa Londonderry is the foremost political influencer of her day, holding court for part of the year at Mount Stewart house on the shores of Strangford Lough in County Down. While she brings her powerful personal influence to bear on the aristocracy and politicians of the day,...
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