76. A Fire in Room 66

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A late-night fire tears through Room 66 at a hotel in Margate. One guest runs for help, another is pulled from the smoke, but it’s already too late. As investigators begin to piece together what happened that night, a different kind of story starts to emerge.

Laura and Iain dive into a case that rocked 1920s Britain, where the truth may have been lost in the flames.

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0:00.0	No, but Tom, he says to me, what are you wearing?
0:04.2	He's like, you look ridiculous.
0:05.6	His invite said yoga party.
0:07.5	You were spot on, bro.
0:08.4	No, no, no.
0:09.1	His text auto-corrected.
0:11.0	So what was it meant to say then?
0:12.4	Toga party.
0:13.8	What?
0:14.2	Oh no.
0:14.6	So they all came as Romans.
0:16.4	Well, I never thought of it like that.
0:18.5	You about? Never thought of it like that. You About. Join me, Roman Kemp, and me, Tom Gremlin, for our weekly catch-up, otherwise known as a podcast.
0:24.9	You About?
0:25.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.7	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:33.6	Hello, Living Legends.
0:35.8	Hello, Ian Sterling.
0:37.1	Hi.
0:37.3	Hello, Mick the dog. He's running, Laura, son. Hello, Ian Sterling. Hi. Hello, Mick the dog.
0:38.7	He's running, Laura, some...
0:40.6	Hello, Ryan Nile.
	...

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