Blood Lands: Say Nothing – Episode 2
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 18 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 white farming family falls silent following the brutal deaths of two black workers. Were the dead men really thieves? Or has South Africa’s tortured past come back to haunt a racially divided community? Blood Lands is a 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. 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. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Andrew Harding. |
| 0:40.0 | This is seriously from BBC Radio 4 and part 2 of a true crime story from South Africa. |
| 0:47.0 | Needless to say, newcomers should start this murky tale from episode 1, and all five episodes are already available to download right now on BBC Sounds and we're off On a warm clear night in January 2016, two unidentified black men are brought to a district hospital in the small farming town of Paris. |
| 1:22.0 | They came in with a stretcher with the vision to the beds. |
| 1:27.0 | Over here on the right? |
| 1:30.0 | Yes. |
| 1:31.0 | Nurse Margaret Mafubello has just begun a night shift. |
| 1:35.0 | Both of them were badly injured. |
| 1:38.0 | The people wanted to know what they did so bad to get that beat him? |
| 1:45.0 | What did the two injured men do? |
| 1:47.0 | Why were they so badly beaten? |
| 1:50.0 | The answers lie out on the big commercial farms that surround Paris. |
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