MYW: Southampton’s Secret Sea Chest

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Listener Cat sends Iain a case involving her husband’s distant family, taking him to Southampton 1924 when a 15-year-old family secret involving a hidden sea chest comes to light and shocks the authorities.

And Laura tells Iain a story about a cockerel and ‘torture’.

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0:00.0	No, but Tom, he says to me, what are you wearing?
0:04.2	He's like, you look ridiculous.
0:05.6	His invite said yoga party.
0:07.5	You were spot on, bro.
0:08.4	No, no, no.
0:09.1	His text auto-corrected.
0:11.0	So what was it meant to say then?
0:12.4	Toga party.
0:13.8	What?
0:14.2	Oh no.
0:14.6	So they all came as Romans.
0:16.4	Well, I never thought of it like that.
0:18.5	You About? Join me, Roman Kemp, and me, Tom Gremlin, for our weekly catch-up, otherwise known as a podcast.
0:24.9	You About?
0:25.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:44.9	Hello, loving legends. Welcome. Hello Living Legends, welcome back to yet another episode of murder you wrote.
0:48.8	It's featuring Laura Whitmore and Ian Sterling and it says that we are the hosts.
0:50.6	Where are we heading today, Ian?
0:51.7	Some were nice and we're warm.
0:51.9	By the beach. We are heading to the coast.
0:53.9	We are by a beach.
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