The Missing Money | The Walkers Ep1
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What unusual tip-off leads to an investigation in Wales?
You've entered the car park for your destination. 2025 was a weird year for me. Most of it was spent following one tip-off. I get a lot of these tip-offs working in investigations, and I can tell you they rarely lead to a story. They hardly ever pan out. But this one, the one that came to me last spring, was different. It's taken me from Wales to Cornwall to France, and then a few months ago... On a sunny October afternoon, I found myself parking up a few hours' drive from London... So we've just pulled in to a service station off the motorway in Gloucester. It all feels very deep throat and secret squirrel. I was there to meet a source. They are extremely nervous about talking to me. So at the moment, this is all on background and completely off the record.
And I can't even say who they are. All this secrecy for a story about a book... The tip-off that started the ball rolling on this whole thing was from a stranger who messaged me on Instagram.
What secrets are revealed about Raina Wynne's past?
They told me they had some information about a memoir called The Salt Path. Art stories really aren't my thing. I'm more a sort of disinformation, Middle East, true crime kind of journalist. So I was about to reply that this wasn't one for me. But then they messaged again and said I should take a closer look at the author because they suspected she might have lied in her books. I mean, I'm a pretty voracious reader, but I'd never come across The Salt Path and I'd never even heard of its author Raina Wynne. Turns out I must have been living under a rock because the minute I started looking around, I realised she was everywhere. On TV chat show sofas, splashed across magazine spreads and on the stage of every literary festival in the country.
I'm Sophie Raworth and I'm talking to you from the BBC newsroom. And it is a great honour to join you this evening to talk to Raina Wynne.
Thank you all so much for coming. Can I welcome to the stage Raina Wynne.
So please everyone, give another warm welcome to Raina Wynne.
Raina Wynne and her husband Moth, the main subject of her books, have become national treasures.
It is a proper phenomenon.
How did the couple's financial troubles begin?
I mean, one of the big sort of 10 books of the last five years or so. It's like this huge thing. Spent more than 90 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller lists and changed thousands of lives.
For the last seven years, readers all around the world have been deeply moved by this couple's true story.
But, you know, anybody who's read the book, I mean, you can't fail to be touched by it.
You've helped a lot of people in terms of having hope. But the real gift is this book. It will change your life. People in the worst of times finding the best of themselves.
It's a heartbreaking story that Raina Wynne has told countless times about how deeply unfair life has been to her and Moth. And it starts with their house.
I'd been living in this place in Wales that I'd bought with my husband, Moth.
It was our dream home, a place we'd thought about for probably a decade before we actually bought it.
But someone they thought was a friend manages to trick them into a dodgy business deal that ends with their house being repossessed.
Saw us being served with an eviction notice from that place, that place that we'd put our heart and soul into, that had been so central to our lives.
What extraordinary decision do Raina and Moth make in response to their challenges?
In one week that changed our lives utterly and indelibly forever.
Then, Moth is told by a doctor that he's dying.
In that week, Mosby Moth had a hospital appointment and he was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease that had no treatment.
CBD is a very lonely existence. Terminal condition, no cure. Nobody gets it.
Faced with destitution and a terminal illness, the couple make an extraordinary decision. They're going to walk the 630 miles around the southwest coastal path while they're thinking of what to do next with the little time Moth has left.
That moment when we said, yes, let's walk, I think it was just the idea of following a line on a map.
They sleep rough in a tent and survive on less than £50 a week. People they meet along the way scorn them for being homeless.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What unusual tip-off leads to an investigation in Wales?
0:04–1:36
2
What secrets are revealed about Raina Wynne's past?
1:36–2:55
3
How did the couple's financial troubles begin?
2:55–4:12
4
What extraordinary decision do Raina and Moth make in response to their challenges?
4:12–5:43
5
How does the couple's journey on the coastal path unfold?
5:43–6:25
6
What shocking discoveries are made about the missing money?
6:25–7:24
7
What happens when the police get involved in the embezzlement case?
7:24–9:13
8
How does the story of the Walkers differ from the narrative in The Salt Path?
9:13–41:14