Blood Relatives, Episode 6
In The Dark
The New Yorker
4.7 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Bamber has a new opportunity to clear his name. But will the British justice system acknowledge that it might have gotten this famous case wrong?
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want a tea or coffee or something before we kick off? |
| 0:04.9 | We've got kinds of tea. |
| 0:06.2 | We've got licorice and peppermint. |
| 0:07.7 | I would just level water. |
| 0:09.2 | I would love a little tea if that's... |
| 0:10.6 | Two? |
| 0:10.9 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:11.5 | Any particular... |
| 0:12.4 | One day this spring, I went to visit Philip Walker, a director of Jeremy Bambor's |
| 0:17.3 | Innocence Campaign with our producer, Natalie Jablonsky. |
| 0:21.1 | Have you got a hot chocolate there, Philip? |
| 0:22.6 | I have. |
| 0:23.6 | I don't mind tea, but it's not my favourite drink. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm hot chocolate man. |
| 0:29.1 | Right, where were we? |
| 0:30.7 | Let me see. |
| 0:31.5 | Philip is a semi-retired company finance director who lives in a neat semi-detached house of |
| 0:37.3 | brown shingles on |
| 0:38.6 | England's south coast. He helps direct a small but vocal group of Bamba supporters who've |
| 0:44.3 | essentially devoted their lives to Jeremy's cause. They hold meetings, issue press releases, |
| 0:50.6 | and troll through the case files looking for leads. It's become a fairly large part of my life now. |
| 0:57.2 | So who knows? |
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