Inundated with praise, West Cork was described by Louis Theroux as “possibly the best ever true-crime podcast” while The New Yorker called it a “masterpiece”. In the wake of its success, production house Sister, behind the hit television series Chernobyl and This is Going to Hurt, confirmed plans to adapt the Audible podcast about the brutal murder of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was beaten to death outside her holiday home near Schull in December 1996. But now the UK journalists who made the podcast, Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, are lining up a legal action in the…

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