One Night in March
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
One night in 2012, Anthony Grainger went out and never came home. He was shot dead by Greater Manchester Police in an operation beset with errors and blunders. Why is his family still fighting for accountability?
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi there, you're listening to Seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm your host Vanessa Casile |
| 0:46.0 | Each week this podcast brings you two of the best documentaries the audio world has to offer |
| 0:51.7 | You've never heard anything quite like this. |
| 0:57.0 | 713 that night, my Anthony's time was over. |
| 1:04.0 | And I just remember being at that doorstep |
| 1:07.0 | from me not understanding my brain, worrying. |
| 1:10.0 | And I thought, right, Anthony's been shot, I better phone the police. |
| 1:15.0 | And as you pick up before you go, |
| 1:17.0 | you can't form the police, the police shot him. |
| 1:20.0 | From that moment on, my life changed. and a fight for change began by two women |
| 1:26.8 | setting out to understand why one man Anthony Granger was shot and killed by a |
| 1:32.4 | police marksman in March 2012. |
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