Retribution, Part 2

Bed of Lies

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Every month, more names are added to the list of survivors. But with every year, more names on that list succumb to their illnesses. Will the Inquiry bring them justice before it’s too late? In this final instalment of the series, they lay bare the shattering impact of this bed of lies.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts.
0:06.7	The story isn't over.
0:09.5	There are yet more names being added to the list of survivors of infected blood,
0:14.2	as often as every other week.
0:15.8	Well, even now I can look back on it, it's kind of bizarre.
0:20.1	I'm speaking to Stephen.
0:21.9	He's in his late 50s and he loves cycling.
0:24.9	He's telling me a story that's fresh.
0:26.9	It only happened a few weeks before we talk.
0:29.4	It's a phone call and it was out of the blue, to be honest.
0:32.1	It was my new doctor, Dr Croker.
0:34.8	And he's phoned me up and he's just said,
0:36.8	Hi, Mr Smith, you've got a moment,
0:38.5	at me here, got some bad news.
0:41.1	This is Bed of Lies, Episode 6, Retribution, Part 2.
0:46.8	Stephen moved to Cornwall with his wife last year.
0:49.7	They're from Essex.
0:51.1	He'd registered with his new doctor and been for a health checkup. He just asked the usual
0:56.0	questions, how's your health, how you've been feeling? I just said that the stomach pains,
1:02.1	back pains, and he went, you know, you sort of raised an eyebrow. What's that all about? I said,
1:06.1	I've had this now for six years. I had it bad for six years. The pain's been crippling.
1:12.3	It's horrible.
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