125. The Secret History of the Clubcard

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How one of the first Tesco Clubcards was used to pay off a blackmailer threatening to poison frozen food. And how that Clubcard was used to catch him.

Presented by journalist and true crime documentary maker Amber Haque and criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw.

Producer: Ciaran Tracey with help from James Shield Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey Mix Engineer: John Scott Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins Assistant Commissioner: Izzy Lee-Poulton

Bad People is a BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Nicola Cocklin.
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0:36.1	You're listening to Bad People. The podcast about the bad things people do and why.
0:45.1	Have you got your club card?
0:46.9	Is that you being an automated checkout?
0:48.7	Yeah, that I pull it off?
0:49.9	Yeah, I think you were convinced, you know what it was.
0:51.9	More to the point, do you have your club card, Judy?
0:54.7	I do not.
0:56.2	Do you have yours?
0:57.8	Always.
0:58.2	It's literally attached to my keys.
1:01.3	I mean, I don't like my shopping habits being tracked, so.
1:04.4	You know, you know, this is not me by now.
1:06.7	Okay, fun police.
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