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Unit 1: Drama: Father and Son

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Session 9

Detectives Callie and Nikesh continue to piece together the events that lead to the death of Jamie Phelps. Then a witness comes forward with some revealing information. Follow the story with us.

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Activity 3

Father and Son: Episode 9 - part 3

That bloke!

The detectives speak to a witness who saw someone important at Dreamers' Cliffs at the time of Jamie Phelp's death. Who was it?

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Sarah
She was trashed though. And do you remember that skateboard? Oh my days….

Nikesh
Callie, this is Sarah, turns out she was at school with Denise.

Sarah
How random is that? Last time we saw each other was at a very messy wedding…

Callie
DS Pritchard. Won’t you sit down? DC Reddy here tells me you posted several pictures from Dreamers’ Cliffs on Tuesday.

Sarah
That’s right. I was walking the dogs. It’s gorgeous up there. Light’s amazing.

Callie
What time were you there?

Sarah
About lunchtime? Oh, I can tell you exactly actually – I’ve got this health, fitness tracker app on my phone. It’ll show when I was walking, climbing the cliffs… Here it is. I was coming up from the car park at one o’clock. It’s like 56 flights of stairs!

Nikesh
Did you see any little kids around? A boy on his own perhaps?

Sarah
No, don’t think so. It was pretty quiet. It normally is up there. Oh, but you know who I did see? That bloke!

Callie
What bloke Sarah?

THE FULL EPISODE IS AVAILABLE IN ACTIVITY 5

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Thanks for all your comments. Here's what some of you have been saying...

Since the beginning I have suspected that his wife was the murderer, just my feeling.
Supandi, Indonesia

I simply love BBC Learning English and I´m falling in love with this amazing crime drama!
Villy, Brazil

I've been enjoying learning English with this interesting drama. I guess that Jamie Phelps is alive. He probably raked together money in unlawful way to pay the ransomware, and disguised his suicide. Lucy lied about the identification because she was his conspirator.
Eiko, Japan

I am deeply dragged into the plot. I reviewed the previous episodes trying to collect every detail to establish a reasonable story. From the people who are involved, I think the celebrity chef was most suspicious. They had conversation through their phones that morning. Was Jamie really asking for his paperwork of accounts? It is not making sense. Then imagine while a person in Jamie’s situation, what would be in his mind and what he would do?
Lucy, New Zealand

Lucy is behind everything, I say!
Ashley, Portugal

There's no doubt that the celebrity chef Arthur Montgomery is involved in the crime. It's getting more mysterious though. I believe in our detectives - they definitely will solve the mystery case.
Amani, Saudi Arabia

Downloads 

You can download the audio and transcript for Episode 8 here. 

The full episode 9 will be available in Activity 5.

Session Vocabulary

  • Useful words and phrases from this episode

    family liaison
    person who gathers evidence and information from a family to contribute to a police investigation as well as looking after their welfare

    of note
    important

    assistance
    help to do something

    privacy
    not allowing other people to know what you are doing