S2 Ep11: S02E12: Lee Rigby's Killers

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On a Wednesday afternoon in May 2013, off-duty British Army soldier Lee Rigby was attacked and killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in southeast London. The two men told passers-by that they had committed the murder to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British armed forces. Who were these men? And what led them to commit such a brutal crime, seemingly with no attempt to conceal their guilt?

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Music: Dan Wansell

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0:00.0	I'm Molly Wansall and I'm Geoffrey Wansall and for the last 16 years or thereabouts we have been having lunch every Saturday and often our conversation turns to murder
0:11.4	and that's what's prompted us to launch this true crime podcast called blood ties.
0:19.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansall and I'm here with my father, Jeffrey Wontzell.
0:25.9	Hello everyone, welcome back. Delight to be with you as always.
0:29.6	It feels like a long time because we recorded our last one quite a time ago, didn't we? Because I went away.
0:35.3	We did. You went to Japan and I've been doing
0:37.7	voiceovers for my television series. Your television series is going so well. We've had very,
0:43.6	very good results. The first three have been extremely popular, much more popular than I think
0:49.2	any of us expected. And we have the repeats on Sunday evenings at 9 on CBS reality and the premieres on Monday evening at 10 on CBS reality. And they're repeated like 2 o'clock in the morning.
1:05.4	Yeah, yeah, I looked it up. Yeah, 2 o'clock in the morning. And I mean, I think the most astonishing statistic, the one that tickled me the most, was that they repeat the Sunday repeat in the early hours of Monday morning, 2 a.m.
1:22.9	And on the second episode, we got 65,000 viewers at 2 a.m.
1:27.7	Now, who are they?
1:28.7	Are they all shift workers who switch the television on and fall asleep in front of it?
1:32.3	Yeah, but I think probably something you don't know.
1:34.4	It's not a lifestyle I lead, but there are a lot of people who stay up very late watching television.
1:41.5	I do find it bewildering.
1:43.7	But I'm delighted, and they obviously like it. Otherwise, all those people wouldn't turn. Yeah, I have to confess, I've watched, which is the vampire killing one? The last one. Yeah. The repeat of that is tomorrow. Yeah. Is it on something like to. Because I don't know how to, yeah, anyway. But, yeah, I think it looks great.
2:01.6	It looks good and the reconstructions are good.
2:04.8	Yeah, they're really good.
2:06.6	And I think all...
2:09.1	As a whole, it kind of takes that kind of true crime series
2:14.0	in a slightly different direction.
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