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June 2026 UPDATE - Quinn is sentenced
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday 6th June, 2026, 52-year-old Paul Quinn received a 21-year prison sentence at Manchester Crown Court. Quinn will be eligible for parole after...
May 2026 UPDATE: Aiding suicide | Poison Ep 7
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Friday, 29th May, 2026 Kenneth Law has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting suicide in Canada. In this special bonus episode, James cha...
Still not ‘free’ |Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 11
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of the series Emily catches up with Andy to reflect on the continued injustice and asks if he can now finally move forward?Host: ...
The man the police missed |Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 10
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Following the conviction of Paul Quinn, Emily meets two senior Greater Manchester Police officers to ask how the force put the wrong man in prison, le...
The real perpetrator (April 2026 UPDATE) | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 9
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Justice is done, but decades late - in this special update to the series, we go to Manchester Crown Court as a jury finds 52-year-old Paul Quinn guilt...
The final battle | Last Man Standing Ep 10
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Manveen and Anthony travel to a maximum security prison in Iraq to meet a man who could hold the answer to what happened to John Cantlie. But will thi...
New leads | Last Man Standing Ep 9
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An unusual listener gets in touch. Four years on Anthony and Manveen are back exploring the circumstances behind the kidnap and disappearance of Briti...
The Answers? | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 6
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With his investigation reaching its final stages, Mario is given a name…And could a change in the law mean a breakthrough for the Enniskillen famili...
The Politician | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 5
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mario speaks with a former IRA volunteer, who tells him something shocking about the bombing.Deep into his investigation, Mario is left asking how hig...
The Dirty War | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 4
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mario searches for the ‘man with the limp’, allegedly seen in the Reading Rooms the night before the bombing.He learns the man is also linked to a...
The Borderlands | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 3
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mario asks why the IRA targeted Enniskillen and discovers police may have known about suspected IRA figures seen nearby, on the night before the killi...
The Aftermath | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 2
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mario asks if enough was done to stop the bombing, and finds evidence of police failures to properly investigate.And the alleged mastermind is dramati...
The Atrocity | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 1
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Remembrance Sunday in 1987, an IRA bomb went off in Mario Ledwith’s hometown of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.A lifetime lat...
Introducing: The Poppy Day Bomb
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Remembrance Sunday in November, 1987 an IRA bomb exploded in the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen, killing 11 people.No one has ever been charged...
Poison - A conversation on suicide prevention | Poison Ep. 6
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does suicide occur? Why is there still a stigma around it? And how can we work to prevent people from taking their own lives? ...
UPDATE: Kenneth Law in the dock | Poison Ep. 5
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kenneth Law faces 14 counts of murder and 14 of aiding suicide. James returns to speak with David Parfett, the bereaved father whose loss began it all...
UPDATE: Kenneth Law is arrested | Poison Ep. 4
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Days after Poison first aired, Kenneth Law is arrested in Canada. At a late-night press conference, police reveal the alleged scale of his operation: ...
An encounter in Toronto | Poison Ep. 3
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James flies to Canada, hoping to talk to Kenneth Law. After days chasing false leads, he tracks him down to a car park in Toronto.WARNING: this series...
The man who sells death | Poison Ep. 2
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The search for answers leads to a name: Kenneth Law. From a quiet suburb outside Toronto, Law appears to run a website selling a substance to young, v...
The Life of Tom Parfett | Poison Ep. 1
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty two-year-old Tom Parfett took his own life in October, 2021. As his father David begins to ask questions, what first appeared as an isolat...
Introducing: Poison
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty two-year-old Tom Parfett took his own life in October, 2021. His grieving father’s search for answers leads investigative journalist James Be...
The wilderness of mirrors | Murder in Cairo Ep. 2
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The case breaks open. Using WikiLeaks cables, memoirs, and declassified files, journalist Emanuele Midolo joins Peter Gillman as their investigation i...
The death of our star reporter | Murder in Cairo Ep. 1
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
December 1977: The Sunday Times correspondent David Holden lands in Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel. Hours later he’...
The neo-Nazi YouTuber | Britain’s New Far Right Ep. 2
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the trail of the far-right YouTuber known only as ‘Ayatollah’. Tips from undercover sources, summer camp sightings and voice-recognition techno...
A lockdown creation | Britain’s New Far Right Ep. 1
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the streets emptied by Covid, David Aaranovitch steps into the online world of Patriotic Alternative, a far-right group turning the pandemic into...
Atonement? | The Feud Ep. 5
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew returns to Oxford to reveal the wounds that still remain following the seven-figure financial settlement. The woman who made an allegation...
Who blinks first? | The Feud Ep. 4
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking point as the college dons question Martyn Percy’s mental capacity. He accuses them of smear campaigns, and an ill-judged essay likening his...
Mystery in the cathedral | The Feud Ep. 3
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christ Church stalls when a student asks for protection, yet when Martyn Percy is accused of impropriety he is suspended within days. What at fir...
Immoral, scandalous, or disgraceful | The Feud Ep. 2
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A stabbing, a scandal, and a battle over job descriptions. Andrew exposes the bureaucratic dispute that spirals into bitter war between Martyn Pe...
Down the rabbit hole | The Feud Ep. 1
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christ Church college, Oxford: a bastion of higher education since the 16th century that produced some of the country’s best and brightest, and is h...
Introducing: The Feud
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Very Reverend Martyn Percy leaves his post as dean of the world-famous Christ Church college, Oxford, with a seven-figure settlement after a bitte...
Pennant money | The Legacy of Penrhyn Castle Ep. 3
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pennant money reshaped not only Jamaica, but also modern Britain. In Wales, it financed the vast Penrhyn slate quarry, built villages, and paid for th...
Plantation records | The Legacy of Penrhyn Castle Ep. 2
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
April-Louise Pennant’s grandparents were part of the Windrush Generation, emigrating from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s. Visiting a local un...
Building Britain | The Legacy of Penrhyn Castle Ep. 1
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arguments still rage about Britain’s role in the slave trade, but the evidence of that dark past is written across the faces of some of the country’...
The kittens who still purr | The Messiah and his Kittens Ep. 4
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adnan Oktar is behind bars but some of his followers still believe. Louise meets his devotees, listens to their claims of injustice and comes to terms...
The turnstile system | The Messiah and his Kittens Ep. 3
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fortress walls begin to crumble. Survivors describe suffering sexual abuse and financial crimes while cult insiders help the authorities bring Adn...
Nice girls from good families | The Messiah and his Kittens Ep. 2
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Away from the TV cameras, Adnan Oktar reigns over a den of secrecy. Louise meets the male enforcers he used to keep it under control. Oktar’s ‘...
The Mahdi wears Armani | The Messiah and his Kittens Ep. 1
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Adnan Oktar, the Turkish televangelist who’s rarely spotted without an entourage of surgically enhanced young women he calls his ‘kittens’....
Introducing: The Messiah and his Kittens
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The leader of Turkey’s most powerful cult, Adnan Oktar, was sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison in January 2021. The Sunday Times’s Middl...
Innocent | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 8
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seventeen years after his original conviction, Andrew Malkinson walks out of prison a free man. In the final episode of the series, we visit Andy a da...
A breakthrough (February 2023 UPDATE) | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 7
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Finally, a door opens. The CCRC refers Andy’s case to the Court of Appeal, and police arrest another man. After 17 long years, could Andy win his fr...
Police failings | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 6
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emily meets the former wife of another suspect in the original investigation. Police failures loom as we learn of other men - some with violent histor...
‘Forced’ to testify? | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 5
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cracks are showing in the case against Andrew Malkinson. Emily Dugan meets the key witnesses who claimed they felt pressure to testify, and learns of ...
Forensics | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 4
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Years into Andrew Malkinson’s prison sentence, new forensic techniques reveal the presence of another man’s DNA at the crime scene. Emily Dugan in...
Witness testimony | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 3
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eyewitness evidence is powerful. But it is not infallible. Emily Dugan draws on wrongful convictions abroad to explore how memory and trauma can compl...
The trial | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 2
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No DNA. Contradictory descriptions. Witnesses with hidden criminal pasts. Andy’s trial is fraught with controversy. As the jury returns a guilty ver...
Life turned upside down | Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story Ep. 1
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2003, a 33-year-old mother of two was raped and left for dead during a horrific attack in Salford, Greater Manchester. A local security guard calle...
Introducing: Seventeen Years - the Andrew Malkinson story
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A mother of two is brutally attacked, but was the wrong man sent to prison?Andrew Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and sentenced to...
Questions and answers? | Cameron and the Toxic Banker Ep. 6
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Finally facing interrogation, David Cameron and Lex Greensill appear before MPs. Between their testimony and half-apologies, we finally come to the tr...
The crash | Cameron and the Toxic Banker Ep. 5
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the music stops? With insurers retreating and Lex Greensill’s tangled web of influence unravelling fast, only one thing’s for ce...
Sanjeev Gupta, man of steel | Cameron and the Toxic Banker Ep. 4
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sanjeev Gupta styled himself as the saviour of Britain’s struggling steel industry, but his empire was fuelled by Greensill money. Deep in Britain’...
A pay app for the NHS | Cameron and the Toxic Banker Ep. 3
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greensill Capital is on the brink - until it lands a lifeline helping to run a vital payroll app for NHS staff. David Aaronovitch uncovers how the com...
Collapse and aftermath | Cameron and the Toxic Banker Ep. 2
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Calls, texts and elbow bumps. As a global pandemic takes hold, former prime minister David Cameron is now working for Greensill Capital, dusting down ...
The rise of Lex Greensill | Cameron and the Toxic Banker Ep. 1
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did a little-known Australian banker end up with the ear of a Prime Minister? David Aaronovitch recounts the improbable rise of Lex Greensill from...
Introducing: Cameron and the Toxic Banker
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the closed doors of Whitehall in central London Lex Greensill promised to revolutionise the way money moves through the highest levels of Briti...
Quiet survival | The Spider in the Web - the Hans Globke Story Ep. 2
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the bombs fell, Hans Globke stayed behind his desk, signing papers that sent Jews to their deaths across Europe. Oliver Moody uncovers how Globke’...
Almost forgotten | The Spider in the Web - the Hans Globke Story Ep. 1
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Globke is the forgotten Nazi. The Times and The Sunday Times’s Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody traces the story of the unremarkable bureaucra...
Introducing: The Spider in the Web - the Hans Globke Story
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Uncovering the story of Hans Globke, the Nazi bureaucrat who helped lay the legal basis for the Holocaust, then came back to build the foundations of ...
Meet Corey Junior | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 1
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We meet CJ Davis’s mother Keisha McLeod and hear about the promising early years and the struggles of a young boy who, in his final 18 months, was s...
Descent into crime | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 2
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lifting the lid on a national crisis of child criminal exploitation. Accounts from CJ’s girlfriend, Bella, and his mother give rise to questions: ho...
The gangs of Newham | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 3
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We dive into the brutal reality of London’s gangland, where imprisoned but still powerful leaders Young Dizz and CB preside over the rival Beckton B...
The murder scene and the wall of silence | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 4
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The September afternoon in 2017 when CJ Davis was shot dead in broad daylight in Forest Gate, East London. An anonymous witness recounts the harrowing...
How do we solve this? | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 5
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three years after CJ Davis’ murder, John Simpson interviews the lead detective working on the case, whose team continues to grapple with an impenetr...
Meet Corey Senior | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 6
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, CJ’s father, Corey Sr., speaks publicly about his son’s death for the very first time. We also meet close family friend Dwa...
Atonement | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 7
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five years after CJ Davis was shot dead in East London, John Simpson is back in Newham to confront the stagnant investigation. He brokers a powerful m...
March 2023 UPDATE - An arrest | Who Killed CJ Davis? Ep 8
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
News breaks that a suspect has been arrested in connection with CJ’s murder. John Simpson speaks with CJ’s mother, Keisha, about this pivotal mome...
Introducing: Who Killed CJ Davis?
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes th...
Restless ghosts | Last Man Standing Ep 8
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When a British minister tells reporters that John Cantlie is still alive in February 2019, the search is on again. What does the British government kn...
Inside Mosul | Last Man Standing Ep 7
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony retraces John Cantlie’s steps on the streets of Mosul, the Iraqi city where John was last seen alive.In 2012, British photojournalist John C...
Lend me your ears | Last Man Standing Ep 6
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As one by one the British and American hostages are killed by their captors, John Cantlie emerges in a series of Islamic State propaganda films, ‘Le...
Freedom is for other people | Last Man Standing Ep 5
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the hostages who were held with John Cantlie describe what life was like inside their prison cell, under the watch of brutal Isis guards. Thei...
There but for the grace of God | Last Man Standing Ep 4
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Anthony this story is personal as he reveals that he himself was captured while reporting on the Syrian conflict. What is it like to be a journali...
Missing | Last Man Standing Ep 3
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Cantlie is missing and there are no leads in the case. The hunt is on for his whereabouts, when a rapper shows up in a Belgian prison saying he h...
The kidnap | Last Man Standing Ep 2
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony investigates details of John Cantlie and his colleague James Foley’s abduction in 2012. He speaks to those who were with them and explores p...
On the trail | Last Man Standing Ep 1
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Loyd begins his investigation into the disappearance of journalist John Cantlie, who was taken by Isis in 2012. He explores the events of a pr...
Introducing: Last Man Standing
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remaine...