New coach Conor O’Shea sets about transforming Harlequins’ fortunes and restoring their reputation.

Tom Williams rediscovers his form and helps the club to the Premiership final - the ultimate opportunity for redemption.

Dean Richards returns to rugby with Newcastle and reflects on the Bloodgate episode, while some of the key figures in the series offer opinions on the legacy of the scandal.

medium: As Richards alleges blood cheating is rife, Williams has a difficult return to rugby.

Long: With the full Bloodgate scandal now exposed, rugby enters a period of soul-searching.

Fallen Harlequins coach Dean Richards makes allegations that blood cheating goes to the very top of the game, while Ugo Monye adds his weight to the argument that other teams are culpable.

And when Tom Williams returns to the rugby pitch, he’s given a less than warm welcome by opponent Chris Ashton.

Narrator: Ross Kemp

Bloodgate is big news - and it’s about to get even bigger…

Dean Richards’ resignation has thrust Bloodgate onto the front and back pages - but details of the cover-ups remain outside the public domain.

That’s until Paul Kelso, sports news correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, arrives on the scene.

While Kelso, now a Sky news correspondent, starts to release details of the murky aftermath to the cheating plot, Tom Williams prepares to reveal all.

Everything comes to a head at a hearing in Glasgow, with life-changing consequences for some of the key figures in the Bloodgate plot.

Narrator: Ross Kemp

After receiving his 12-month ban, Tom Williams faces pressure from the club and his team-mates as he considers blowing the whistle on the Bloodgate plot.

We hear about secret meetings between Tom and the club’s board and horse-trading over what level of financial incentive might persuade him not to reveal the truth.

It leads to a showdown at a board member’s house in Cobham, a decisive intervention from Tom’s girlfriend Alex and a shock resignation.

Narrator: Ross Kemp

Gripping testimony from the Harlequins dressing-room as Tom Williams persuades club doctor Wendy Chapman to help cover up his act of cheating.

But when new footage emerges of Tom appearing to chew on a fake blood capsule, European Rugby prosecutors decide to press charges against the player, his coach and the club.

Quins agree a cover story - but will it hold water when matters come to a head at a Bloodgate hearing in central London?

Narrator: Ross Kemp

The story of one rugby's most notorious matches, told by those who were there.

A European Cup quarter-final between Harlequins and Leinster was always going to be big - but nobody knew how big.

Players from both sides including Ugo Monye and Brian O’Driscoll, commentators, coaches and referee Nigel Owens recall how events unfolded before, during and after the moment that Tom Williams staggered from the field with fake blood dripping from his mouth.

The Leinster officials see through the plot straight away - but can they expose the wrongdoing?

Narrator: Ross Kemp

Ross Kemp visits the Clapham joke shop at the origin of the Bloodgate cheating scandal that brought rugby union to its knees.

We learn how the advent of professionalism in the 1990s brought a new win-at-all-costs mentality to the sport.

And Harlequins players Tom Williams, Ugo Monye and Nick Easter explain how new coach Dean Richards transformed the club from entertaining also-rans into ruthless winners who began to push the rules to their limits and beyond.

Could a loophole in the laws around blood injuries boost their chances of European silverware?

Narrator: Ross Kemp

Rugby union was rocked to its core by an episode that involved deception, cover-ups, recriminations and life-changing consequences for those involved. 

Hosted by actor and award-winning documentary maker Ross Kemp, with reporting by BBC rugby union correspondent Chris Jones, this series uncovers new details and untold stories about the infamous ‘Bloodgate’ scandal.

Kemp takes listeners on an intense journey into how a simple blood capsule triggered a series of events that shook the sport.

At the heart of this story is Tom Williams, the young Harlequins player who found himself caught up in a scheme to cheat during a critical match.

The podcast not only features interviews with rugby icons like Brian O’Driscoll, Shane Horgan, Ugo Monye, Nick Easter and referee Nigel Owens, who were on the pitch on that fateful day, but also esteemed journalists and investigators, who reveal how they exposed the plot and covered the messy consequences.

Martin Geissler investigates Vladimir Romanov’s rise from Soviet submarine cook to millionaire football club owner and fugitive in a gripping tale of ambition, power, and chaos. With First hand testimonies from those that were there, Martin will hear just how Vlad made his money, came to power in Edinburgh and shocked Scottish football before discovering how it all went wrong, leaving Romanov penniless and a wanted man.

On the other side of the world, a bugged goalpost brings tales of the match-fixing king. Having completed his confession, Moses faces up to Troy Deeney's judgement of his incredible story.

Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.

Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney

A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live.