S3 Ep2: S03E02: Dr Death, Harold Shipman

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Harold Shipman was a GP. He was also one of the most prolific serial killers in British history. What led this medical practitioner to kill so many of those who trusted him with their care?

CREDITS:
Producer: Poppy Damon
Artwork: George Leigh
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.
0:27.5	Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansall and I'm here with my father Jeffrey Wansel.
0:39.2	Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you for listening. We ended up as number 57 on the iTunes chart a couple of weeks ago, which amazed both Molly and I.
0:45.5	God, I was whooping. I couldn't believe it. On the 18th of December, when our first West podcast came out, we went in as a new entry, number 57 in the iTunes.
0:52.3	Hi, I'm Mammish Ranganathan, and I'm just bending you here to tell you about my brand new BBC T show. Give it up for the Ranganation. The topical comedy chat show about all of the things that are happening from the news, the country, the internet. This is unbelievable, right? To help me make sense of it all, they've given me my very own focus group. The bunch of fun, opinionated and passionate people from all walks all walks alive and of course my mum, who apparently has to be in everything I do now. You missed few things? No, I didn't. You did. The Ranga Nation, available now on BBC Eye Player until July the 22nd. Happy with the way the world is heading? Don't buy this book. Understand why you do what you do? Don't buy this
1:31.0	book. At peace with your existence, don't buy this book. Content with your relationships? Don't buy this book.
1:40.8	The follow-up to the subtle art of not giving a f*** by Mark Manson is finally here.
1:46.5	Everything is a book about hope.
1:49.1	Out now.
1:54.4	It means 100 podcasts.
1:56.6	Yes.
1:57.0	I can't believe it.
1:57.7	We were too above Dirty John.
1:59.4	I don't even know what Dirty John is.
2:00.7	Well, it's a very good podcast, which I've listened to. Oh, right. Well, if you could say it's good, I'm even more pleased. I know, it's incredible. But we're not in it anymore. Well, we might go back in. We might. You can never tell. We've had 35,000 downloads now. It's astonishing.
2:17.8	Poppy thinks our producer Poppy said we should aim to get to 100,000 this year.
2:24.1	Well, let's do it.
2:25.5	Let's keep taking the tablets.
2:27.2	We'll do what we can.
2:28.2	Keep on keeping on.
2:29.3	Keep on keeping on.
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