One December day, Samira Shackle found herself in the midst of an unfolding, global story. Drones had been spotted flying around Gatwick Airport. But weeks, then months passed, and no drone operators were ever found. Samira lays out how she dug into the mystery and revealed all was not as it first seemed. Read all …
Annabel Hennessy was reporting on another case when she heard a name that would change everything. A lawyer, expert in First Nations’ rights, told her about Jody Gore – a woman convicted of murder with little weight given to the years of domestic abuse she suffered. This story unravels how Annabel’s groundbreaking series of articles …
What do you do if the data you need doesn’t exist? When the pandemic hit I couldn’t stop wondering about how the impact of lockdown, sickness or bereavement on people’s ability to pay their rent or mortgage. I wanted to know more, but I couldn’t do it alone. This is the story of how a …
Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones think they have everything they need to finally expose Jimmy Savile’s abhorrent crimes. But as their transmission date gets nearer, their BBC bosses start to pull back. This is the story of how the BBC came to drop the Newsnight investigation into Savile and the seismic consequences of that decision. …
Meirion Jones has had a strange feeling about Jimmy Savile for some time and he thinks he may have a way to probe further. When Savile dies, Meirion teams up with Liz MacKean to try and get to the truth. This is how Liz and Meirion pulled together the pieces – in an attempt to …
Zak Garner-Purkis is sat in a fastfood restaurant – his attention laser-focused on the men gathering across the road. He is trying to work out who these man are, how they have come to be there, and whether this is what modern day slavery looks like in 21st century London? This is the story of how Zak went undercover to expose a shocking system of exploitation in the construction industry.
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Creator and host of The Tip Off, Maeve McClenaghan has written a book, and it is now out in paperback.No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless tells highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real …
Cheats: we love to hate them. But in this climate of fast news, short attention spans, 280 characters, do we ever get the full picture? Cheat!, a new podcast from Somethin’ Else, digs underneath the surface to tell the inside stories behind some of the…
Sarah Turnnidge started her journalism career at local papers so it was there she first encountered press releases from police forces. But over time Sarah started to wonder – did they tell the whole story.In this episode Sarah talks through her meti…
