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True crime (Podcasts)

June 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    I tried to solve a murder – and almost had a nervous breakdown

    Arwa Mahdawi
    My true crime obsession led me to spend countless hours and thousands of dollars investigating a missing persons case. I didn’t crack it. But I nearly cracked under the pressure, writes Arwa Mahdawi

May 2024

  • a selfie of comms guru Carys Afoko and award-winning journalist Gary Younge, co-hosts of new weekly podcast Over the Top Under the Radar.

    The week in audio: Over the Top Under the Radar; Home Sleuth; The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam; Beyond Five Senses – review

  • Black and white photo of Christopher Wordsworth, with a thick moustache and goatee and wearing a button-down shirt, in a garden smiling slightly and holding his young son Saul, who is wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and grinning

    Top authors join trail of Devil in the Wilderness podcast real-life murder mystery

February 2024

  • Tash Cutts, who is John and Naomi Dancy’s great granddaughter, eventually pulled out of contributing to the podcast.

    Horror, glamour … and heartache: how a hit true-crime podcast divided a family

    Relatives fall out over allegations made about notorious 1930s killing in award-winning show Ghost Story

January 2024

  • Ashley Madison website on a tablet.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Exposed: The Ashley Madison Hack; Making Sense of Social Housing; Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes – review

    Not enough users of the hacked infidelity website share their stories; more on the UK’s housing crisis; and a philology of funnies

November 2023

  • Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Lights Out: Dust; The Bakersfield Three; Heirs of Enslavement – review

    Can it be true that Radio 4 is axing the brilliant Lights Out? Elsewhere, Olivia LaVoice joins the dots between three murders in a gripping true crime podcast. Plus, a hit-and-miss look at the legacy of slavery

August 2023

  • Madonna of the Yarnwinder at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Under Cover of Knight; The Missing Madonna; The Trial of Lucy Letby; Four Sides of Seamus Heaney – review

    A woman’s death in Texas is unexpectedly mundane and the nurse’s court case a little too lurid. But there’s lots to love in the true story of a stolen Leonardo and a portrait of the Irish poet

July 2023

  • A Banksy in Borodianka, Ukraine, November 2022.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Banksy Story; I’m Not Here to Hurt You; Prom 13; Academy – review

    A Radio 4 series dives too deep with the street artist, while the Irish Independent goes big on ripping true crime yarn. Plus, an otherworldly gem at the Proms
  • Martin Brunt

    My specialty is true crime, but even I’m puzzled: why are we so addicted to the dark side of humanity?

    Martin Brunt
    On the TV, radio and podcasts, we seem ever more fascinated with the wickedness of some, says author and broadcaster Martin Brunt
  • Nancy Jo Sales

    Why do women love true crime so much? I have a theory

    Nancy Jo Sales
    The explosion of interest in true crime coincides with the rise of online dating. I suspect those things are more linked than they appear

June 2023

  • Mollie Goodfellow

    Why I quit
    I found comfort in grisly true crime stories. Giving them up brought me peace

    Mollie Goodfellow
    It’s hard to admit, but I was using others’ tragedies as a way of protecting myself. Then an ad snapped me out of it, says writer Mollie Goodfellow
  • Megyn Kelly TODAY - Season 1<br>MEGYN KELLY TODAY -- Pictured: (l-r) Terra Newell and Debra Newell on Friday Jan.12, 2018 -- (Photo by: Zach Pagano/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

    ‘I’m still ostracized’: what happens to true crime survivors?

    Two survivors of horrifying, well-publicized crime stories have banded together to create a podcast tackling difficult tales of survival against the odds
  • Clockwise from top: Rylan Clark, Nish Kumar &amp; Coco Khan, Jon Ronson, Daisy May Cooper and Hannah Ajala

    Best culture of 2023 so far
    The best podcasts of 2023 so far

    Rylan Clark discusses how to be a man, Daisy May Cooper is unreceptive to classic novels and Jon Ronson investigates a debutante turned neo-Nazi in the pick of the year to date

May 2023

  • Joe Beattie, the detective who led the search for Bible John.

    True crime can be an unedifying business, so why am I drawn to writing about it?

    Francisco Garcia
    When I started reporting on an infamous serial killer, I had to navigate my way through the genre’s ethical minefields, says author Francisco Garcia

April 2023

  • British nationals about to board an RAF aircraft in Khartoum, Sudan, last week, for evacuation to Larnaca in Cyprus, 26/04/23.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Adrian Chiles; Badger and the Blitz; Blood on the Dance Floor; Poison; Wosson Cornwall – review

  • Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Filthy Ritual; Supersenses; The Beauty Queen Riots; Mother Neighbor Russian Spy

January 2023

  • Michael Sun

    TikTok is overrun by amateur sleuths – so which clues should I leave in case I go missing?

    Michael Sun
  • Sir Hillary and Norgay smile at the British Embassy in Kathmandu

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Bone Valley; There Are No Greater Heroes; The Crowning of Everest and more – review

December 2022

  • You’re Wrong About … just one of the audio recommendations this Christmas.

    Are you bored yet?
    Are you bored yet? The most exciting radio and podcasts to keep you entertained

  • Mandy Matney and Hedley Thomas

    ‘There are so many unsolved murders’: the true-crime podcasters reviving cold cases

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