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Blood Ties Podcast

S4 Ep3: S04E03: Moors Murders Part I

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are two of the most notorious killers in British history. What do their back stories tell us about their motivation to murder?

CREDITS: 
Producer: Poppy Damon 
Artwork: George Leigh
Music: Dan Wansell

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Molly Wansall.

0:01.4

And I'm Geoffrey Wonsle.

0:02.7

And for the last 16 years or thereabouts, we've been having lunch every Saturday,

0:06.7

and often our conversation turns to murder.

0:09.0

Which is what prompted us to start this true crime podcast called Blood Ties.

0:15.3

Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansel, and I'm here with my father, Geoffrey Wansall.

0:20.9

Hello, everyone. Thank you again for listening. This is a particularly interesting two

0:25.2

episodes we're going to talk about. Yeah, we're doing a double bill. We're doing two episodes

0:31.5

on the Moors murderers. A name everybody recognizes, but curiously, a whole generation don't really know who they were.

0:40.3

I mean, Hindley died in 2002.

0:44.3

I know their faces and their names, but I don't know the stories that well.

0:49.3

That's the point. I tried just randomly talking to a few people, even those in their 40s and 50s.

0:56.0

And only one or two could actually pin down what the crimes were and why they were so horrendous.

1:02.6

And I think it's worth telling the story again for a new generation.

1:07.8

Great. Well, that's what we're aiming to do today.

1:10.4

That's what we're here for. Anything exciting this week, I haven't been, I went to the Terrence Rattigan annual dinner. That was fun. Nice.

1:17.9

Very nice. I was away this week. Well, I was meant to be away on a National Trust road trip with mum.

1:25.7

But it rained so much, we gave up and came home.

1:28.6

Yes, it's very difficult to do National Trust Gardens in the pouring.

1:32.2

Well, there's no point going around a garden in the rain, is there?

1:34.8

Not really.

1:35.2

We went to one house and we had sort of walk up a very long drive in our max and it was all

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