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Apr 2023
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Ministry of Secrets | 6. Fisherman John'...

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Fourteen months after Lionel Crabb’s disappearance, in 1957, a corpse is found in Chichester Harbour, eight miles from Portsmouth. Is it Crabb? When Giles and Sarah discover a long-lost autopsy file in West Sussex archives, they seek help from Britain’s leading forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.


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Show notes:

Mark Elliott interview, 2014 - BBC Motion Gallery/Getty Images

John Randall interview, 1957 -  BBC Motion Gallery/Getty Images

Sidney Knowles interview - David Jackson-Wills

Various materials - West Sussex County Archives

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