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Death in Ice Valley

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Death in Ice Valley

BBC

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4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Death in Ice Valley – a true story. What can our investigation discover? With Marit Higraff and Neil McCarthy. Starts on 16 April 2018.

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

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

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When someone goes missing, they usually miss.

0:24.0

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

0:30.0

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

0:36.0

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

0:42.0

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

0:47.0

as we attempt to find out who she was.

0:50.0

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

0:54.0

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

1:03.0

Objects had been laid out around the body.

1:06.0

Labels had been cut off her clothes.

1:09.0

All traces of her identity had been deliberately removed.

1:12.0

The secret police quickly got involved.

1:15.0

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

1:20.0

who was she?

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Why was she travelling around with all these identities?

1:25.0

Was she a spy?

1:27.0

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

1:31.0

Always, when I saw her, she was alone.

1:34.0

I didn't feel she was shy.

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