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Coming soon from the BBC World Service and No Ways N.A.K.,

a major new original podcast series, Death in Ice Valley.

When someone goes missing, they usually miss.

Somebody, a brother, a sister, a lover, a workmate or a neighbour reports them missing.

But in 1971, a woman was buried in a cemetery in Bergen in Norway,

and not even the funeral guests knew who she was, and she was never reported missing.

In this podcast investigation, we'll be looking in detail at the circumstances of her death,

as we attempt to find out who she was.

She had died in a terrible way, and her body was found on a mountainside.

She was laying with her head down there, and her legs up here.

Objects had been laid out around the body.

Labels had been cut off her clothes.

All traces of her identity had been deliberately removed.

The secret police quickly got involved.

Kind of a novel, and especially at this time, 1970, the Cold War,

who was she?

Why was she travelling around with all these identities?

Was she a spy?

People had seen her around, but nobody seemed to know her.

Always, when I saw her, she was alone.

I didn't feel she was shy.

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