Welcome to The Tip Off- the podcast where we take you behind the scenes of some of the best investigative journalism from recent years. Each episode we’ll be digging into an investigative scoop- hearing from the journalists behind the work as they tell us about the leads, the dead-ends and of course, the tip offs. There’ll be car chases, slammed doors, terrorist cells, meetings in dimly lit bars and cafes, wrangling with despotic regimes and much more. So if you’re curious about the fun, complicated detective work that goes into doing great investigative journalism- then this is the podcast for you.
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.
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…
Andrew Gold, a freelance journalist, is feeling out of his depth. He is in a church hall on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and the priest he is there to see is not happy.This is the story of how Andrew tracked down a man who claimed to be exorcising…
Pete Murimi has stumbled upon a horrifying hypothesis – that people are snatching children from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya. Now he is working for BBC Africa Eye and is on the trail. Working with Njeri Mwangi Marc Perkins(Editor) and Tom Wa…
To commemorate getting to our 50th episode we look back at what happened next after some big stories went out.Jane Bradley, Samir Jeraj, Natalie Bloomer and Aliaume Leroy broke some great investigative scoops, but the story didn’t end ther…
