Is the public about to catch on to the Spycops scandal?

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The women tricked into relationships with undercover police officers have spent a lot of years investigating and campaigning, largely unnoticed. Might a new ITV documentary about their stories finally get them the widespread support they deserve? Hannah chats to one of those women, Alison, and to Lucy Wilcox, the director of The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed to find out more. * Hannah has previously interviewed Alison about her experiences of discovering her partner of eight years was a police spy. You can hear that interview, which also features Helen Steel, on Itunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sim-ep-744-chops-255-groomed-gaslighted-ghosted/id1080808404?i=1000568597088 * The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed starts on ITV and ITVX on Thursday 6 March. * You can find out more about the Police Spies Out Of Lives campaign here: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.9	Hello, Hannah here. And welcome to the last but absolutely not least podcast of the week.
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1:20.9	professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an author of a new book,
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