Four Shots in the Night, Part 2: The Spymaster's Dilemma | Northern Ireland

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Author Henry Hemming tells the twisting tale of two very different British spies operating in Northern Ireland during the 30-year conflict known as The Troubles. In Part 2, Frank Hegarty and Freddie Scappaticci are drawn ever deeper into the violent world of the Provisional IRA - and soon, there'll be no turning back. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. Henry Hemming is the author of Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Espionage, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland (Quercus Publishing, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.6	Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:46.6	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:50.8	What do they know?
0:52.2	What are their skills?
0:53.9	And what would you do in their position?
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1:06.9	Four shots in the night, part two.
1:10.6	The Spymaster's Dilemma.
1:13.9	The year is 1984, and Frank Hegetty, a new recruit of the Provisional IRA's quartermaster
1:21.6	division, has just been given an assignment.
1:24.6	So the first job Frank is given is to hide a small number of rifles and some ammunition
1:30.8	somewhere in dairy.
1:33.7	And this is really difficult because he obviously can't just dig a hole in his garden
1:37.4	or put it somewhere where he thinks the police or the army might find it.
1:41.7	What makes Frank's decision even more difficult
1:44.1	is the little detail of his collaboration with the British Army.
1:49.0	By hiding the weapons somewhere they might be discovered,
1:51.9	he could risk exposure.
1:54.0	The spy needs to get this right.
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