6. Starcrossed Lovers

Gangster

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Amy and Joe had been planning a future together, outside — but now they’re stuck behind bars, facing the consequences of their actions.

In this final episode, host Amber Haque unpicks how their story ends - and finds there’s still love, but also loss.

And for Amy, the question that lingers - was any of it ever real?

Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Ivor Manley Story and music consultant: Emma Weatherill Development by: Rob Byrne, Rhiannon Nevada and Emma Shaw Production management: Gaelan Davis-Connolly and Debbie Wadell Executive producer: Joe Kent A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live Commissioning producer: Sam Proffitt Commissioning executive: Louise Kattenhorn and Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning editor: Richard Maddock

A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.2	Marianne has not the heart to tell Eleanor how worried she is by the lack of poetry in Edward's soul.
0:14.7	Tamzing Greg brings Jane Austen's work to life with pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility.
0:20.6	Reports soon follow that Mr Bingley is very agreeable.
0:24.4	And Julie Andrews narrates a new series, Jane Austen Stories.
0:28.9	You take delight in baxing me.
0:30.9	You have no compassion on my poor nerves.
0:33.7	Celebrate Jane Austen.
0:35.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.7	I'm Amber Hack. Just a heads up before we begin.
0:41.1	This episode contains some very strong language,
0:44.8	and it deals with adult themes, including drugs, child sexual abuse and violence.
0:51.6	It's not something that I'd usually ever do, but I did.
0:55.0	I said, what's his name?
0:56.0	I want to see what it looks like.
0:57.0	Like, I want to know who he is and said, no, it's a full-on blind date.
1:00.0	He don't know what you look like, you don't know what he looks like.
1:03.0	So, I went.
1:07.0	Kelly hasn't exactly had the best luck when it comes to men.
1:12.2	So when a friend asks if she's up for trying something, well, a little bit different,
1:18.2	a blind date with one of her boyfriend's mate, she thinks, why not?
1:22.4	Nothing to lose, right?
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