Blood Lands: Common Purpose – Episode 5
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The final episode of Blood Lands - a true story told in five parts which takes us to the heart of modern South Africa.
A group of white men are on trial accused of murdering two black South Africans, but as a long and explosive trial comes to an end, could muddled medical evidence see them walk free? Blood Lands is a murder investigation, a political drama, a courtroom thriller, and a profound exploration of the enduring racial 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 dramatic trial, and the fortunes of all those involved – from the dead men’s families to the handful of men controversially selected for prosecution. When a whole community is on trial who pays the price?
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 Andrew Harding here with Seriously from BBC Radio 4 and the fifth and final episode of Bloodlands |
| 0:46.1 | as you'll know by now the whole series is downloadable on BBC sounds. |
| 0:50.3 | So what about the verdicts? |
| 0:54.0 | All rise. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a cool bright morning in May 2020 |
| 1:01.0 | and Judge Kornay Vanzel enters her courtroom, her expression hidden behind a coronavirus |
| 1:06.9 | face mask. |
| 1:11.0 | She's about to deliver her verdicts mid-pandemic. Six men are waiting to hear if |
| 1:16.7 | they'll be convicted of double murder. |
| 1:18.8 | Somehow this trial has lasted for 56 days stretched out over the course of more than three years. |
| 1:30.0 | This trial was years. |
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