Bed of Lies
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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...
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31 episodi
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 fr...

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...

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 u...

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 g...

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...

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...

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,...

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 cont...

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...

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,...

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...

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 seco...

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 seco...

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...

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...

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. Bu...

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 whistleb...

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...

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.tele...

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...

Infection
Two young couples, two shock diagnoses. Our story begins with Clair, Bryan, Frankie and Joe - and four young lives turned upside down.
Read Cara...

Introducing Bed of Lies: Blood
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 by...

Inquiry, Part 2
The spycops' relationships were built on a bed of lies – including their marriages. In this final episode of the series, we hear about the shattering...

Inquiry, Part 1
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
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 they edge closer t...

Tradecraft
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 - writ...

Uncovered
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
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 love...

Secrecy
The perfect relationships are free of secrets. But these aren’t the perfect relationships. As the years go by, things begin to unravel - starting with...

Infatuation
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 to f...

Introducing Bed of Lies: Love
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 secrets,...