40. The Wimbledon Murderer

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Laura looks at the case of Vere Thomas Goold, an Irish tennis champion who experienced a dramatic fall from grace. After losing an important match at the Irish National Championships, Vere gave up on his tennis career. He turned to a life of drink, drugs, gambling and – eventually – murder.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.
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
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0:43.6	Hello everybody. Welcome to Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Ian Stirling.
0:47.6	You join us in a baking recording studio with a small furry hound perusing the grounds.
0:59.6	Looking for a lap to sit upon.
1:01.6	But he shan't for he is too warm.
1:04.7	Basically, we're in the house.
1:05.9	We had to shut the window.
1:06.9	We've got a really bright light on.
1:08.7	We probably need some sort of ventilation and the dog has got into the room. Yeah, producer Ryan brought his laptop, which is the loudest thing in the
1:15.4	entire world. I think it's going to take off at any time. It looks like a Mac book, but it sounds like
1:22.0	an 80 year old man with asthma. So if you do hear that, we don't have a random... We don't have Ian's dad in the corner.
1:29.5	Mick's not making love to a random pillow.
1:31.6	That is a genuine...
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