Why we should always expect the worst
The BBC podcast At Your Own Peril explores the history of risk and the importance of disaster planning.
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Natalie Haynes and the classics as comfort blanket
The ninth series of this show is airing on Radio 4 – and it’s the perfect listen for bleak winter…
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The BBC podcast In Dark Corners reveals a network of British predators
The journalist and survivor Alex Renton uncovers the “Paedophile Information Exchange”, a pro-paedophile group that campaigned throughout the 1970s
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The Trapped: inside Britain’s social housing scandal
This eight-part series reveals the council homes unfit for human habitation – in horrifying detail.
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How true crime became “victim-centred”
The genre can no longer justify itself in terms of entertainment value alone. Enter the ubiquitous invocation of the victim.
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Sadiq Khan plays the everyman
On the High Performance podcast the mayor of London trades in chirpy platitudes.
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Sarah Koenig: “I’ve never been a missionary for true-crime podcasts”
The Serial creator on ten years of the podcast that changed the medium forever.
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A new history of the Brighton bomb attack
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable listen.
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