Blood Relatives, Episode 6

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K 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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