Bed of Lies
Episodes
Murder in the Masai Mara | Episode 1, SOS
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a cold February day in 1988, Julie Ward sets off on the journey of a lifetime from England, through Africa. She establishes a new life in the ...
Introducing: Murder in the Masai Mara
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Julie Ward vanishes mysteriously in the Masai Mara in 1988, her father begins a hunt for answers that stretches from a safari lodge in Kenya to M...
Legacy | 9
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peace walls, segregated schools and old enemies living on the same street. Cara returns to Northern Ireland to see how, today, The Troubles are far fr...
Devastation | 8
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A family forced to flee abroad. A young soldier killed by a car bomb. Two teenagers gunned down in a mobile shop. As Cara exposes the cold-bloodedness...
Cover-up | 7
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
IRA spycatcher Freddie Scappaticci has been outed as FRU agent Stakeknife – but he’s not going to disappear without a fight. The British state tak...
License to Kill | 6
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Nelson is finally in the dock for his campaign of murderous violence, but will he face justice? The question sends shivers through the British g...
Handlers | 5
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cara tracks down soldiers from the covert unit of the British army at the heart of her investigation. As these people who handled spies in the IRA and...
Touts | 4
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The IRA creates a new unit to root out informers – or touts – and kill them. A man known as Scap quickly rises to the top of this ‘Nutting Squad...
Agent 6137 | 3
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Facing life in prison for murder, a key loyalist makes a surprising confession: he is Agent 6137. When he targeted people for the UDA to assassinate, ...
Collusion | 2
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Top detectives race to untangle a web of lies behind the murders. But just as they’re about to arrest a key loyalist suspect, their secure office co...
Trouble | 1
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three innocent Catholic men are shot dead in front of their families by a brutal Protestant paramilitary group hunting the IRA. Even in the dark days ...
Introducing Bed of Lies: Conflict
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all,...
Final Report
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last three years, Cara McGoogan has kept in touch with the people impacted by the Infected Blood Scandal who she spoke to for Series 2 of Bed...
Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 2
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this extract from the host of Bed of Lies Cara McGoogan's new book: The Poison Line (UK) and Blood Farm (US). Developed from the second seri...
Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 1
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this extract from the host of Bed of Lies Cara McGoogan's new book: The Poison Line (UK) and Blood Farm (US). Developed from the second...
Introducing: Call Bethel
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brave whistleblowers. A trail of data. A secret system for dealing with allegations of child abuse.Bed of Lies' Cara McGoogan introduces a new podcast...
Retribution, Part 2
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every month, more names are added to the list of survivors. But with every year, more names on that list succumb to their illnesses. Will the Inquiry ...
Retribution, Part 1
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A letter leads to a lawsuit – and a big development in our story. After years of feeling silenced, British survivors are making their voices heard. ...
Violation
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Plasma is a life saver - and a lucrative industry. One that made fortunes and cost lives. But what was really going on behind closed doors? A whistleb...
Fabrication
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you knock on enough doors, eventually one will open. Tireless investigators trace the infected blood from the arms of people with haemophilia back ...
Confrontation
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sadness turns to anger; anger to action. The survivors fight back, but for each confrontation, there's a coverup.Read Cara’s notebook: www.tele...
Experimentation
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Medicine is a game of risk, and few have seen the cost of getting it wrong as clearly as one group of boys. Whispers, a terrifying newspaper headline ...
Infection
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two young couples, two shock diagnoses. Our story begins with Clair, Bryan, Frankie and Joe - and four young lives turned upside down.Read Cara’s no...
Introducing Bed of Lies: Blood
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It begins in a maximum security prison in Louisiana – and it ends in thousands of deaths. This is the story of people poisoned, families torn apart ...
Inquiry, Part 2
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The spycops' relationships were built on a bed of lies – including their marriages. In this final episode of the series, we hear about the shatterin...
Inquiry, Part 1
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Police spies have infiltrated homes – and hearts. Now, they face a public inquiry. But why did they dupe women into relationships in the first place...
Fightback
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each woman has a fragment of the truth. When they put the pieces together, the true scale of the deception starts to emerge. But as the...
Tradecraft
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a thin line between spying and meddling. And it’s one that's only faintly drawn in the manual once given to new undercover police officers - ...
Uncovered
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The mask slips, the relationships unravel, and as lies are uncovered, so too are the men behind them. Plus, for the very first time, our stories colli...
Breakdown
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One by one, the men vanish. As the search begins, the girlfriends start to question what they’re really looking for - and who they’re actually in ...
Secrecy
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The perfect relationships are free of secrets. But these aren’t the perfect relationships. As the years go by, things begin to unravel - starting wi...
Infatuation
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one of Britain’s biggest secrets, and it begins with a love story. Young activists united in their fight for justice. But then, cracks start ...
Introducing Bed of Lies: Love
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
They thought they had found their soulmates – but they were all in love with a lie. Cara McGoogan tells the story of one of Britain's biggest s...