Sideways: Siding with the Enemy
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author Matthew Syed explores the ideas that shape our lives with stories of seeing the world differently.
A criminal walks into a Swedish bank brandishing a machine gun. He takes a handful of bank workers hostage. The police lock the victims and their captors in the vault and then things start to get weird. Despite being held captive and threatened with violence, the hostages side with the criminals.
Stockholm Syndrome is born.
In this episode, Matthew Syed reexamines the birth of this peculiar psychiatric disorder and discovers that all is not what it seems.
Producer: Gemma Newby Music, Sound Design and Mix: Benbrick Series Editor: Russell Finch Executive Producers: Sean Glynn and Max O'Brien
A Novel production for BBC Radio 4
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Matthew sighed and you were about to hear the first episode of my new podcast called Sideways. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm going to explore the ideas that shape our lives, told through extraordinary stories, which will hopefully make you see the world a little differently. |
| 0:56.3 | Stories like the tragic case of a woman wrongly convicted of murder due to a statistical error |
| 1:02.0 | and how the ideas of a m Maverick kernel in the US Air Force |
| 1:05.1 | were critical for the success of the Brexit campaign. In this episode, |
| 1:09.4 | siding with the enemy, I look at the origins of Stockholm Syndrome and discover that all is not quite what it seems. |
| 1:16.7 | To hear more episodes like this, just search for sideways on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:31.0 | They say that you can be frozen by being frightened and I think my brain was cut off. Name is dread, his dread is the word I think of. |
| 1:36.0 | Christine Enmark is recalling the most terrifying time in her life. |
| 1:42.0 | The next thing I remember is that I'm sitting tied up on a chair. |
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