63. The Stolen Shakespeare

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Iain explores the case of a missing Shakespeare folio that resurfaces in Washington DC in the hands off a flamboyant Englishman. A story so extraordinary, it could have been written by William Shakespeare himself.

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0:00.0	Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.
0:05.0	But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,
0:09.0	lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.
0:13.0	On a match day, everyone was your enemy.
0:15.0	We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.
0:19.0	It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.
0:22.6	They were destroying the football club.
0:24.9	The game I won.
0:25.9	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:30.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:34.9	Hello, Ian Sterling, and welcome to the podcast. How are you? How are you feeling? Have you had a nice day? Would you like a little drink of water? Good, thanks. It's still early and no, I'm fine for water. That's the answer to all those questions you just asked. Good. I'm like extra hydrated today because I just feel like... Laura has joined the cult that is the Stanley Cup.
0:58.1	Is that a brand?
0:58.9	All other Stanley Cups are available, but they're not.
1:01.5	They're not really.
1:02.4	There's other cups available.
1:03.4	Get it in short, get it in shot, get it in short.
1:04.8	But look at the size of it.
1:05.6	It's like the size.
1:06.2	It's the size of Mick. I do not understand these people that have got these cups that are the size of their own head.
1:13.1	Is it not quite heavy to pick up when it's full of water?
1:15.2	Yeah, it's like giving me a little bit of a workout in the arms.
1:17.8	I have to rotate the arms.
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