MYW: The Legend of the Hartlepool Monkey

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Listener Sarah sends Laura to Hartlepool, where a shipwreck, a monkey in uniform and a case of mistaken identity lead to one of the UK’s strangest legends – and its weirdest “trial”.

Meanwhile, Iain dives into modern-day monkey business of his own, featuring a quad bike heist gone wrong and a flying kick that lands someone in jail (for a day).

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0:00.0	The new series of Call Jonathan Pye is out now.
0:05.4	Why are you doing it in that voice?
0:06.7	It's my BBC radio voice, isn't it?
0:08.8	You know, this is the BBC.
0:10.9	Try something different.
0:11.6	Well, we're trying to attract a new audience, like, make it, I don't know, what do I mean?
0:17.2	It's sexy.
0:18.2	Sexy, how's that going to work?
0:19.5	For one second, just imagine me trying to be sexy.
0:22.8	How's that make you feel?
0:24.1	Very, very unwell.
0:25.1	Exactly.
0:25.7	So let's just stick with the BBC voice, shall we?
0:28.1	Call Jonathan Pye.
0:29.6	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.6	BBC Sounds.
0:34.7	Music, radio, podcasts.
0:42.9	Music. BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. Hello, we're back, Living Legends.
0:45.1	Welcome to this episode of Murder You Wrote with Lord Woodmore and Mr Ian Sterling.
0:50.0	Hello, everybody, yes.
0:51.3	Last week we were in Aberdeen, and we've had even more cases come into the MTW inbox. That's Murder They Wrote Inbox.
0:59.8	Very clever. Thank you. Laura, where are we headed this week? It's your case this week.
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