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Bed of Lies

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Peace walls, segregated schools and old enemies living on the same street. Cara returns to Northern Ireland to see how, today, The Troubles are far from forgotten history. A victim of Stakeknife breaks his silence and, like so many others, he wants to know the truth about his father’s murder. As her investigation draws to a close, Cara examines the legacy of Britain’s terror spy network and asks, has justice been served – or is the state getting away with murder?

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0:00.0	We've got the mountains looming over in the distance and a very low fog today.
0:08.1	Typical Belfast weather.
0:11.0	I'm driving through Belfast with tour guide Trevor on one of those Troubles history tours
0:16.5	that take place in retired black taxis.
0:20.1	North Belfast, right across the whole area here, is all segregated communities.
0:25.6	A lot of people still feel more secure in an area of their co-religionists.
0:31.6	Northern Ireland remains divided.
0:34.6	Whole sections of cities and towns here are either Protestant or Catholic.
0:40.3	Over 90% of children here go to segregated schools and tensions can still flare up.
0:47.3	There are areas of the city which are integrated where the people do live together quite peacefully.
0:52.3	Up in this part of the city here, it's not like that. This is where the people do live together quite peacefully. Up in this part of the city here, it's not like that.
0:56.9	This is where the troubles began, back in 1969.
1:01.8	On the fault line, between the Shankill Road, home of the UDA and Brian Nelson,
1:07.5	and the Falls Road, home of the IRA and Freddie Scapetici. There are five connecting roads between the Shankle and the Falls Road, home of the IRA and Freddie Scapatici.
1:11.6	There are five connecting roads between the Shankle and the Falls nowadays, five sets of gates.
1:17.6	These gates separate the Shankill Road from the Falls Road. They're locked every night when the sun goes down.
1:23.6	And reopened in the following morning.
1:26.6	These areas which have seen a lot of conflict, death and destruction over the years,
1:31.9	they still feel that need to have the gates in place and to have the peace wall there.
1:37.9	The peace walls divide areas that were at war with one another for 30 years.
1:43.4	There are more than 60 of them in Northern Ireland,
1:46.2	and they run for over 20 miles.
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