Cover
By BBC Radio 5 Live
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Subscribers: 1847
Reviews: 18
Episodes: 30
Jun 20, 2025
Vinny
Feb 20, 2024
Excellent podcast series.
Jun 15, 2022
Anna
Mar 4, 2021
Extremely moving podcast.
I have the greatest respect for all the survivors.
Mar 2, 2021
NGC300
Dec 12, 2020
Dec 3, 2020
heartbreaking
Nov 9, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
Sharon
Oct 22, 2020
Harrowing but extremely well put together podcast. disgrace how the victims have not had any justice.
aidanh
Oct 1, 2020
deyeah
Sep 24, 2020
I was vaguely aware of this horrific story, thank you for bringing to the public's attention again in such a clear and succinct manner, brilliant podcast so far
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 5, 2020
John O'Connor
Aug 29, 2020
Great podcast!
Manus
Aug 28, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
Alan Whelan
Aug 27, 2020
Description
Cover is an award-winning series investigating true stories of people living secret double lives, presented and produced by Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy.
Series 1: Where Is George Gibney? An Olympic coach charged with child sexual abuse who never stood trial. Instead, he vanished. Series 2: Stakeknife. A man tasked with finding and killing alleged IRA informers who was, in fact, a British agent all along.
You can contact our production team about either series at cover@bbc.co.uk.
Credits for series 2: Stakeknife -
Reporter: Mark Horgan Produced and written by: Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy Co-Producer: Paddy Fee Editing and Sound Design: Ciarán Cassidy Composer: Michael Fleming Sound mixing: Ger McDonnell Theme tune by Lankum Artwork by Conor Merriman Assistant Commissioners for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor for BBC: Dylan Haskins
Cover is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.
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12. Case Update: George Gibney Arrested in Florida
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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12. Bonus Episode With Angela Donnelly, Sister of Eugene Simons
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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11. Bonus Q&A with Mark Horgan and Patrick Radden Keefe
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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A message to listeners - Q&A with Patrick Radden Keefe and bonus interview coming soon
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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10. Frank
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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9. No Harm Will Come to You
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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8. The General and the Agent
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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7. The Beginning of the End
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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A message to listeners - one week break
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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6. Playing God
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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5. Someone Bigger
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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4. The (Estate) Agent
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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3. The FRU
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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2. Sin É
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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1. The Man Who Never Was
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Introducing... Stakeknife
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Mark explains why this feed is now called Cover.
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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11. Case Update
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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10. Sea Swimming
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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9. Her Voice is Coming
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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A message to listeners - new bonus Q&A episode out now on BBC Sounds
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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8. Talk
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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7. Christ Renews
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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6. Sunshine State
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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5. Land of Opportunity
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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4. He Upped and Vanished
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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3. Bail
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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2. 'We've Been Expecting You'
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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1. It Happened in the Summer
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Introducing... Where is George Gibney?
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Aug 13, 2020 |