68. The Soldier’s Secret

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

| Laura takes us to 1942, where a body is found near a military base. A secret relationship, a hidden woodland hut and missing weapon point to one man… but nothing in this case is straightforward.

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0:00.0	Why would anyone want to steal a toilet?
0:05.0	If they think they can get away with it, they'll get away with it.
0:08.0	But this isn't any old toilet.
0:11.0	This is a solid gold toilet, worth nearly five million pounds, stolen from a palace.
0:17.0	A solid gold toilet has been stolen.
0:20.0	Police are trying to flush the robbers out.
0:23.0	It's a tale of security failures, ruthless robbers and missing millions.
0:27.7	Crime next door, the golden toilet heist.
0:30.4	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts
0:37.6	Hello, Living Legends and welcome to Murder They Wrote.
0:41.1	Hello, Ian Sterling, welcome to Murder They Wrote.
0:43.0	It's a pleasure to be here, long-time listener, first-time caller, so it's lovely to be part of the show.
0:47.8	Imagine we got calls on this?
0:49.7	Well, we only had your mother, really.
0:51.7	We called her.
0:52.8	And we called her, really.
0:53.7	We're that we call, we don had your mother, really. We called her. And we called her, really. Where did we call?
0:54.6	We don't get callers.
0:55.0	Yeah, we're like the cold callers of the podcast world.
0:58.4	Maybe we should do that thing that was a podcast where we get like, um, what voice notes sent in.
1:03.3	Oh, yeah.
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