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Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Pirates attacked Judith and her husband in a remote Kenyan resort in 2011. Judith was dragged from her bed and taken by boat to Somalia, where she was held for over six months. Despite everything she went through, Judith Tebbutt has spent the last ten years trying to get justice for a man she believes was wrongly convicted of the crime.

Due to breaking news we're bringing you this episode of Lives Less Ordinary earlier than scheduled.

Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Rebecca Vincent

Transcript

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.3	I was then trying to negotiate my freedom.
0:40.8	I started saying, look, you're making a huge mistake.
0:44.6	You're going to get into trouble.
0:46.0	Just throw me back and I will swim back and I won't say anything.
0:51.3	And of course, no one said anything.
0:53.8	And as I was looking, I could see the shoreline
0:56.5	getting smaller and smaller and smaller until it disappeared. And I realised we were in the middle
1:01.6	of the Indian Ocean, racing away at speed. This is Lives Less Ordinary, an original podcast
1:08.4	from the BBC World Service.
1:14.8	Every episode, we bring you an extraordinary personal story,
1:18.5	someone who's willing to share the most intimate, dramatic,
1:21.8	and defining moments of their life with you.
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