[Music]
Broadmoor, a word that makes people shiver
Most think that Broadmoor is a prison in fact
in fact, it's a high secure
psychiatric hospital.
And home to some of the countries most
dangerous and violent offenders.
After 5 years of negotiation and for the very first time
the hospital has allowed cameras in to
meet the man, who live behind these walls
[screams from inside the building]
[inaudible]
[grunting] [slams door shut]
Broadmoor's [inaudible] learning history
about people being all these monsters
here, basically but you can be violent
but that don't mean you're a bad person
because sometimes you don't, you're not
intending it.
[Dispatcher] Hello Bravo 1-0 [inaudibile]
[Dispatcher 2] One going to the Phoenix O.C.
I just called radio alpha 4 over
The easiest reaction in the world is to see
somebody that has committed something atrocious
label them as evil once lock the door
and throw away the key.
I probably actually never said the words
of what I actually done, I never admitted it
still just a blur in my head.
[knocking]
I got born into this Italian family
very, very violent.
In some cases, it would have been better
to have killed me then to have allowed me
to have this vulnerable life I've had.
[Music]
With unprecedented access and filmed over
a year, this series reveals the secrets
of life inside Britain's most
notorious institution.
[Bell ringing]
[Music] [Birds chirping]
Broadmoor is perched above the [blank]
Village of Crowther.
Just 40 miles from the center of London
When people think of Broadmoor, they think
Ronnie Cray, Peter Saccliffe, Robert Napper
and Kenneth Herskin.
Some of the most dangerous killers
the country's ever known.
[Speaker 2] The public perceives this place
"Oh that's where the
actual reapers locked up.
That's Reg Mckales killers locked up.
Broadmoor's an institution of lot's of people
But not all rapist, pedophiles or murderers
There's people in there for self-harming
in prison. There's people in here for [inaudible]
And there's people in here for really
really evil things. [inaudible]
Which they shouldn't do.
[Music]
First built is a Victorian lunatic asylum
for the criminally insane.
Today Braodmoor is an NHS hospital.
Over its 150 year history, it's been a
secretive and mysterious institution.
Staff are under strict instructions not to
discuss patients outside the hospital walls
Many won't even admit to working here.
[Speaker 3] Close family member know
where we work but if we're in a normal
mainstream then you'd probably say
you work in a hospital or something.
Don't really wanna talk about it
in the place.
[Speaker 4]