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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 65 – PETER BLEKSLEY (PART 1) – Real Life Stories From An Undercover Copper – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to founder member of Scotland Yard’s undercover unit, author, and now TV presenter, Peter Bleksley. Tim and Peter discuss the Brixton riots, the subsequent life changing moment and having a contract on your life.
If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy
Peter is on Twitter - @PeterBleksley
And Peter’s books are available here –
On The Run goo.gl/w78WWe
Gangbuster - goo.gl/SEUpvG

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast. It's a special.

0:06.0

All I can say about today is wow. Peter Blexley is our guest. You might have seen him on

0:14.7

hunted, where he is the main boss trying to hunt down the fugitives.

0:26.9

But he used to be an undercover cop and the story he tells are just unbelievable.

0:32.0

It's just kind of one of the best podcasts we've done because the stories are immense.

0:41.7

I sort of had one of those moments I looked around at you and I realised that I was leaning across the desk with my mouth open, and you were completely still with your mouth open when he was telling you some of those stories. It's such a good interview.

0:44.9

He talks about everything from his views on the drug industry, talks about the Brixton riots,

0:51.9

he talks about what it was like to be a

0:55.1

copper in the 80s, 70s and 80s.

1:00.0

He's got opinions on everything and it's just,

1:02.0

I mean, it's very interesting stuff.

1:04.6

I never knew what really to, I kept on saying undercover copper.

1:09.1

I don't know whether that I was going to ask you at one stage, but then he called himself a cop. So I thought, saying undercover copper. I don't know whether that way. I was going to ask you

1:11.4

one stage, but then he called himself a cop. So I thought, I was like, I didn't know, I didn't know

1:16.9

what to do. It's like, you know, a police officer. Police officer doesn't sound right, does it? I don't

1:21.0

know. What do you call? He kept calling himself a cop and a copper, didn't he? I think you just hear what he says and just then pretend you know what you're talking about. I think that's the way to do it.

1:28.8

Yeah.

1:29.2

Sorry, just quickly, obviously if you're listening to this, you've already downloaded it.

1:33.4

But listen to the whole thing.

1:35.1

It's really, really, really good, I thought.

1:38.6

Very good.

1:40.0

Entertaining.

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