Episode 224 - The Guildford Four & The Maguire Seven
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🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The responsibility for the heinous act of terror was quickly thrown at three young Irish men and a seventeen-year-old English girl. On top of this, accusations of running a "bomb factory" was soon being shouldered by a middle-aged Irish woman who'd lived in England for twenty years.
The British justice system had no evidence to prove the Guildford Four or Maguire Seven were connected to any bombings, but a large helping of police brutality and a bit of systemic corruption would soon sort that out.
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| 0:14.5 | I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to the third to last Redhanded of 2021. We made it. |
| 0:22.5 | There were some really hairy moments this year when we didn't know if we would, but here we are. |
| 0:27.5 | Oh god. At the end of the year, Christmas is in three weeks, but how? Stress. Who? |
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| 0:45.0 | It's fucking freezing everywhere. I'm so cold. Thank you to the lovely lady whose name I've |
| 0:52.0 | forgotten. Kathy's craft, vintage craft. Thank you for sending us. She's going to see you go in the |
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| 1:01.4 | sent us some lovely blankets and they are helping, but they are quite, mine does drown me. It's |
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| 1:14.4 | Yeah, it's cold. It's getting progressively cold. I've had to start wearing gloves on my |
| 1:18.2 | cycle to work, which is just not a good look and gloves make my hands feel weird, but I have no |
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| 1:31.2 | Excellent. Let's crack on. Let's crack on. If you've ever wondered what the IRA is really about, |
| 1:37.8 | why Ireland's split into in the first place, or why there is a long history of animosity between |
| 1:42.9 | the Irish and the English, then this is the episode you've been waiting for. I have wondered all |
| 1:46.9 | of those things for many a year. I am so scared to do this episode. I've been thinking about doing |
| 1:55.2 | something along these lines for a long time. For the longest time, I wanted to do a limited series |
| 2:01.4 | about the girlfriend for the Birmingham six and the Maguire seven and call it four six seven, |
| 2:05.9 | which I thought was ingenious, but I never got around to it. So I think it's just such an important |
| 2:12.0 | case. And for reasons that will become clear, a lot of people, I would actually say most people, |
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