MYW: Warwickshire’s Weird & Wicked Crimes

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Laura dives into a case sent in by listener Emily, who works at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. This beautiful, historic manor was once the scene of a grisly murder involving two young lovers. Plus Iain has unearthed an unusual e-fit and a robbery involving 20,000 bees.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds.
0:40.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Just a warning before we start that this episode
0:46.4	contains strong language. Hello, welcome back to another episode of Murder
0:56.2	You wrote with Laura Widmore and Ian Sterling.
0:58.7	We've had a week off, so we could have a proper deep dive into our inbox
1:02.1	and now we're back with some more local cases.
1:05.7	Do you want to tell us where we're headed today, Laura, please?
1:08.7	Well, we're in the Midlands today in a county called Warwickshire, which is home to Stratford-upon-Avon.
1:13.6	Stratford-upon-Avon is famous.
1:15.8	It is the birthplace of Shakespeare.
1:19.5	Did you know that?
1:20.3	It is the birthplace of Shakespeare.
1:21.3	I actually went there to the OG Globe, not the one that we went to in London.
1:27.8	Yeah, it was great.
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