34. Charles Manson, Part One

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the first of a two-part special, Laura takes us back to the very beginning of the Charles Manson story. This week’s episode starts by looking at Charles Manson’s mother, Kathleen, before unravelling the details of Charles’ childhood, his troubled teenage years, his time in and out of prison, and what led him to establish his ‘family’, which would later become a murderous cult.

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0:05.2	My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.
0:11.3	It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,
0:16.3	but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.
0:19.6	And because the team is such a diverse
0:21.2	range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through
0:26.0	archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if
0:31.8	you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories
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0:44.3	Hi everyone, welcome back to the pod.
0:48.4	Please never say that again.
0:50.8	Yo dudes, welcome to the pad, bros.
0:53.4	Are you done, yeah?
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:55.4	It's my choice of case this week.
0:58.0	Usually on murder they wrote, we opt for less known crimes, you know, the weird, wacky ones that not everyone knows about.
1:04.0	But as a true crime fanatic, I've always had the desire to find it more about the famous ones, the ones that we've heard of, but we don't really, we know of them, but do we know the exact details? And a lot of them have been made into
1:13.1	films and like what is true, what's not true. So I'm going to talk today about one of the most
1:17.8	famous cases in modern history, Charles Manson. This is the big, when we first started doing
1:24.2	this podcast, Charles Manson's up there and the ones you were talking about.
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