8 episodes
No Body Recovered BBC Radio
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- Society & Culture
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4.5 • 92 Ratings
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When a child goes missing there is one thing worse than finding a body – and that’s not finding a body.
No Body Recovered was written, produced and edited by Kevin Connolly, Maria Byrne, Diarmuid McIntyre, and Jeremy Skeet.
Commissioning editor: Fiona Campbell
Music by: Sarah Cullen
Additional editing: Daniel Clancy & Mary McDonnell
It is a production for BBC Stories in collaboration with Grey Heron Media
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Episode 7 - Remembrance
In our final episode we ask if there’s any chance of family reconciliation. And we remember Mary, missing now for 42 years.
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Episode 5 - Exposed
Mary's sister Ann thinks she knows what happened to Mary. Her theory has divided the Boyle family.
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Episode 4 - Charlie
Mary’s disappearance changed the lives of everyone she left behind. And the story of her father Charlie was to end in tragedy too.
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Episode 3 - Theories
Gypsy bands, paedophile rings and Volkswagen drivers; we look at the rumours and the theories that have swirled around the investigation.
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Episode 2 - Ripples
We meet Mary's twin sister Ann and start to realise how hard it is going to be to tell this story.
Customer Reviews
Bravery brings a result
Well put together and reported. My sadness is in the inability to tackle the obvious. I’m pleased the profile of the case had been raised...
Dreadful
This is a heartbreaking story which deserved to be better told. There is no content here: you’re lucky if an episode is twenty minutes long, and at the end of each we are told yet again that ‘next time’ we will hear whom some of the family thinks is responsible for the disappearance as if this is a cliff hanger. Given the widely known circumstances, it is obvious to anyone who might be involved- it’s hardly going to be a revelation even if he were named, which he isn’t. In addition, the journalists don’t interview many people at all.
I do wish journalists wouldn’t decide they want to make a podcast and then put it out regardless of how much information they find, stretching a few slant facts over multiple episodes. This could’ve been covered in one short article.
Tough material sensitively handled
Podcasting at its best, great job. Poor little Mary, so sad.