4.3 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Laura heads to York to unravel Craig Townend's £1m art gallery heist leads to even more bizarre thefts in England's most haunted city.
Plus, Iain shares York's weirdest theft stories: a replica skull stolen from the city's most haunted pub on New Year's Eve, and the tale of a German student who "liberated" an organ pipe from York Minster in 1969.
Murder You Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected].
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0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
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0:48.5 | Hello, living legends. We are back with another episode of murder. You roast. |
0:55.1 | That's right. We are digging through our inbox and seeing the cases you've suggested from your local area. Are you from a place? |
1:02.8 | Well, that's good. Let's talk about it. What's happened there? Murder, crime. Heists. |
1:08.8 | Yes, keep those emails coming because we get a lot, but we always want more. |
1:11.9 | We always want more. And where are we headed this week, Laura? It's your week this week. |
1:15.6 | This is, I've done this a few times where I've picked places I've actually never been to before. |
1:19.2 | Because I'm kind of living vicariously through these emails. |
1:23.8 | York. Now, I don't know much about York. |
1:25.9 | Gorgeous part of the world. Beautiful. Lots of theatres. |
1:29.6 | When I say York, what do you think? Do you think good theatres? |
1:31.7 | I think theatres. I think posh buildings. Pocket buildings. |
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