Summary
News of people being killed in knife attacks recurs with tragic regularity, but the reports rarely touch on the impact on the victim’s family and friends. In this programme Sarah O'Connell sets out to understand these ripple effects — some perhaps expected, others likely not — as she explores the case of Russell “Barty” Brown, who was stabbed to death in Bethnal Green, east London, in September 2016.
As she speaks to Barty's friends and family, to the medic who treated him and a witness to this terrible incident, Sarah hears about the gap he has left in all their lives, and what kind of a man he was in life.
Producer: Giles Edwards Executive Producer: Martin Rosenbaum Sound Engineer: Hal Haines.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best audio |
| 0:46.8 | documentaries and puts them all in one place. Here's the most interesting thing you're here all week. |
| 0:55.0 | I was ill for years with having kidney trouble and all that. |
| 0:58.0 | And I had to die life. I've been tyre lives in nearly seven years now. |
| 1:01.0 | And as a kid, he always said, I'm going to give you a kidney. |
| 1:04.0 | He always did. |
| 1:06.0 | After years of searching for a kidney donor on the 9th of September 2016 |
| 1:12.0 | doctors here at the Royal London Hospital finally confirmed |
| 1:16.8 | a match for Tracy. |
| 1:18.8 | Her nephew, Bartie. |
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