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Bed of Lies

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, a shadowy unit of the British Army.

Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder?


The first and second series of Bed of Lies are also available to listen to on this feed:


Series 2: It was meant to be a miracle treatment, but it became a deadly poison. Cara McGoogan investigates the story they didn't want you to know - and one of the biggest medical disasters in history.


Series 1: They have the perfect relationship, until one day he vanishes. Her hunt leads to other women just like her - and a web of state-spun lies. This is the untold story of one of Britain's biggest secrets.


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Update frequency
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Average duration
38 minutes
Episodes
31
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Legacy | 9

Legacy | 9

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 from forgotten history. A victim of Stakeknife brea…

01:09:29  |   Fri 11 Apr 2025
Devastation | 8

Devastation | 8

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 of both sides in the Troubles, she finds out the…

01:05:20  |   Sat 29 Mar 2025
Cover-up | 7

Cover-up | 7

IRA spycatcher Freddie Scappaticci has been outed as FRU agent Stakeknife – but he’s not going to disappear without a fight. The British state takes unprecedented measures to make sure their spy gets…

00:56:57  |   Fri 21 Mar 2025
License to Kill | 6

License to Kill | 6

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 government, and the answer causes even more of a s…

00:52:12  |   Fri 07 Mar 2025
Handlers | 5

Handlers | 5

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 loyalist paramilitaries spill their secrets, it …

00:50:45  |   Thu 20 Feb 2025
Touts | 4

Touts | 4

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’ and builds up a fearsome reputation for cruelty. But …

00:50:43  |   Thu 13 Feb 2025
Agent 6137 | 3

Agent 6137 | 3

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, he was also working for the British. The daughter…

00:57:45  |   Thu 06 Feb 2025
Collusion | 2

Collusion | 2

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 containing top-secret evidence goes up in flames. The…

00:49:51  |   Thu 30 Jan 2025
Trouble | 1

Trouble | 1

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 of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the murders …

00:46:19  |   Thu 30 Jan 2025
Introducing Bed of Lies: Conflict

Introducing Bed of Lies: Conflict

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, a shadowy unit of the British Army.

Award-winning…

00:02:11  |   Wed 22 Jan 2025
Final Report

Final Report

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 of Lies. On Monday 20th May those victims finall…

00:39:41  |   Sat 25 May 2024
Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 2

Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 2

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 series of this podcast, Bed of Lies: Blood, The Poiso…

00:15:07  |   Wed 11 Oct 2023
Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 1

Introducing Cara McGoogan's Book: Part 1

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 series of this podcast, Bed of Lies: Blood, The Poiso…

00:27:58  |   Thu 21 Sep 2023
Introducing: Call Bethel

Introducing: Call Bethel

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 from the Telegraph, Call Bethel. Follow the Tele…

00:34:52  |   Mon 20 Jun 2022
Retribution, Part 2

Retribution, Part 2

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 bring them justice before it’s too late? In this …

00:49:19  |   Wed 17 Nov 2021
Retribution, Part 1

Retribution, Part 1

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. But will those accountable finally listen?


Read Cara…

00:35:05  |   Wed 17 Nov 2021
Violation

Violation

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 whistleblower reveals all.


Read Cara’s notebook: www.teleg…

00:46:58  |   Tue 09 Nov 2021
Fabrication

Fabrication

If you knock on enough doors, eventually one will open. Tireless investigators trace the infected blood from the arms of people with haemophilia back to the room where it all began – in that American…

00:46:04  |   Tue 02 Nov 2021
Confrontation

Confrontation

Sadness turns to anger; anger to action. The survivors fight back, but for each confrontation, there's a coverup.


Read Cara’s notebook: www.telegraph.co.uk/notebook |

For 30 days’ free access to The Te…

00:43:41  |   Mon 25 Oct 2021
Experimentation

Experimentation

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 and then a stark message: a deadly virus is in th…

00:42:34  |   Mon 18 Oct 2021
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