99. The Heineken Kidnapping

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for Iain’s distinctly non-Chrismassy Christmas episode. This week, we’re looking at the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer.

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Ellis, our podcast is nearly 500 episodes old.
0:10.0	But what have we learnt?
0:11.0	Ellis James and John Robbins.
0:13.0	I've learnt that when you're doing live radio, if somebody texts in in block capitals, it's very really a good sign.
0:18.0	We've had a confused text, it says, I want to listen to this rubbish.
0:21.9	I learned that if you lose to lose Sanders in a board game,
0:24.8	don't mention it on the show,
0:26.2	you are going to get an unexpected call.
0:28.4	Oh, dear, oh dear.
0:31.2	Ellis James and John Robbins, 500 not out.
0:34.1	Lovely stuff.
0:35.5	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:38.3	It's November the 9th,
0:40.8	1983.
0:42.4	We're in Amsterdam in a park called Tweed-Verturing Plunsoon.
0:46.8	On the east side, there's an ornate building
0:49.4	that wraps around the corner of a small street
0:51.9	overlooking the canal below.
0:54.6	The building is known as
0:55.7	Villa Heineken. It's home
0:58.0	to the beer company's most important
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