72. The Green Bicycle Case

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Laura retraces the twists of one of Britain's most debated unsolved cases. In 1919, a farmer found the body of a young woman on the side of a quiet country road, lying next to her bicycle. While first deemed an accident, it soon becomes clear she’s been shot.

A witness recalls a man on a striking green bicycle seen with her just hours earlier, but when police search for the rider, the truth becomes more tangled than anyone expected.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.4	You should grade history, really.
0:07.6	You know, rather than listening to me.
0:10.4	What happens when you unravel your family's past
0:13.1	and discover a buried confession?
0:15.7	And your father was an expert in gases?
0:19.6	In poison gas.
0:21.2	Poison gas, yes.
0:22.8	A new documentary series about family secrets
0:25.6	and how the past lives on inside us,
0:28.4	even when we try to ignore it.
0:30.3	I started to wonder what else
0:31.9	had slipped from my great-grandfather's memory
0:34.2	while writing his memoirs.
0:36.9	A new documentary series by me, Joe Dunthorne.
0:40.3	Listen to Half-Life on BBC Sounds.
0:47.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:51.6	Hello, Living Legends and welcome to the podcast on this beautiful sunny day.
0:55.5	I think it is.
0:56.2	I don't know.
0:56.6	We can't see outside.
0:57.4	I don't know if it's nice where you are, but my goodness, the sun has got his hat on today.
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