Blood Lands: Betrayal – Episode 4
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Blood Lands is a true story told in five parts which takes us to the heart of modern South Africa.
A family betrayal leads to a murder trial in a small farming town in South Africa. But who is telling the truth about a frenzied attack that left two black farm workers dead, and a community bitterly divided on racial lines? Blood Lands is murder investigation, a political drama, a courtroom thriller, and a profound exploration of the enduring tensions threatening the "rainbow nation". Over the course of three years, correspondent Andrew Harding has followed every twist of the police’s hunt for the killers, the betrayals that opened the door to an explosive trial, and the fortunes of all those involved – from the dead men’s families to the handful of men controversially selected for prosecution.
Presenter, Andrew Harding Producer, Becky Lipscombe Editor, Bridget Harney
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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 | It's me again. |
| 0:40.0 | Andrew Harding here with Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:44.0 | Also available to download on the BBC Sounds app. |
| 0:47.8 | Here's the fourth and penultimate episode of Bloodlands. |
| 1:05.9 | A violent confrontation in rural South Africa leads to a chase. Two black men are left for dead and a white farming community closes ranks. It was very clear from the beginning that |
| 1:11.5 | there was a cover-up. Those farmers closed up against us. |
| 1:18.5 | But then comes a breakthrough. |
| 1:20.3 | You're there's not going to get you out of this one. I'm going to arrest you and I'm going to lock you up. |
| 1:24.0 | The police recovered deleted voice messages. |
| 1:27.0 | If a punch can kill, then you know it was a bloody hard punch. messages that sound rather |
| 1:34.8 | like confessions. Welcome back to Bloodlands. When a family is stretched to breaking point, who takes the fall? |
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