Blood Lands: Shaking the Tree – Episode 3
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 19 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.
Police investigating a suspected double murder in a small South African farming community uncover crucial new evidence. But will it be enough to break the farmers’ wall of silence and solve a case that has divided a town on racial lines? 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.
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 again, Andrew Harding here with seriously from BBC Radio 4. No small talk, let's crack on with |
| 0:46.1 | episode 3 and yes the whole of Bloodlands is ready to download on BBC sounds. |
| 0:58.0 | This is what we use for forensic evidence. These are far murders and farm murders are our most gruesome murders that you can get. |
| 1:10.0 | Captain Francois Lauks flicks through a collection of crime scene photographs of white farmers tortured and killed during robberies. |
| 1:19.0 | This was one of my most gruesome farm murders that I attended. |
| 1:24.0 | An old lady was living alone. The suspect came into the house at night and he took a |
| 1:30.4 | meat hook that they hang the meat up in the friezers and he stuck it in a chin |
| 1:35.1 | under a chin lockers and he pulled it through the house looking for the safe keys. |
| 1:40.0 | Laux is a member of South Africa's serious crime squad, the Hawks, a burly figure with small eyes. |
| 1:47.0 | He's come to the town of Paris to crack a new case, his last before retirement. And it's an odd one. |
| 1:57.0 | This time, two black men are dead, after being beaten unconscious by a group of white farmers here in Paris. |
| 2:11.0 | So now Captain Lauks and his team are investigating a double murder. |
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