Hiding in Plain Sight – Who Was Dr Harold Shipman?

Pathogen addict, given to forging prescriptions, a so-called mission-orientated killer and, it’s argued, that he became addicted to killing. Dr Harold Shipman could have been torn from the pages of a particularly bleak crime novel. A loner who would go so far as killing patients in his own clinic, his bloody hands are all over history, even from an early age; even as a junior doctor he certified 133 deaths and was present at a third of all of them. Plainly put, he was at the moment of death twenty more times than any other junior doctor he worked with.

He was dismissive of the people he killed too, if they were in his way, or thought they were, then they were almost certainly doomed. Killing one victim at home as their neighbour literally sat next door in the kitchen, telling the relative of another when asked if they might survive, that ‘I wouldn’t buy him an Easter egg’. Dark as pitch, unfeeling and the only doctor in British history found guilty of murdering his patients.

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Hosts: Dr Andrew Johns, Dr Harry Brunjes

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Sound Design: John Scott

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