Bad People
Dr Julia Shaw and comedian Sofie Hagen dissect the criminal cases that shock, intrigue and scare us the most.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08lj2sz
- Description
- Dr Julia Shaw and comedian Sofie Hagen dissect the criminal cases that shock, intrigue and scare us the most.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-02-10 09:25
- last episode published
- 2023-06-29 04:00
- publication frequency
- 9.0 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio
- Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 120
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2023-06-29 | It’s the Bad People finale. In this last ever episode, Julia and Sofie dig into the ethics of the media covering criminal cases. After a press “campaign of vilification”, all charges against Christopher Jefferies were dismissed. The tabloids had inc... |
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| 2023-06-22 | In December 2010, the UK media became fixated with the disappearance of 25 year-old Joanna Yeates. When her body was discovered, many tabloid newspapers felt certain they knew the identity of her murderer. Christopher Jefferies had been Joanna’s landlo... |
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| 2023-06-15 | Daniella Isaacs, the creator of the new BBC Sounds audio drama, People Who Knew Me, joins Dr Julia Shaw in a conversation about faking one’s own death and using the terrorist attacks in America on September 11th 2001 to do so. We ask, who fakes thei... |
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| 2023-05-25 |
102. Paedophile Hunters: Do vigilantes help or harm justice? Convicted child sex offender Mark Sutherland has arranged to meet a 13 year-old boy at a bus station, but when he arrives a team of adult “paedophile hunters” greet him with a video camera. In this episode of Bad People, hosts Julia Shaw and Sofie Ha... |
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| 2023-05-18 | In 2010 Pramila Krishnan, a journalist for the Deccan Chronicle, filed a story about a little-known practice called Thalaikoothal. The story was huge in India and lead to the filming of the 2020 Tamil-language film Baaram, which translates as The Burde... |
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| 2023-05-11 | It’s 2001 and 14-year-old Anthony Haynes has died. He was one of some 50 kids who participated in a military-style, wilderness programme that was supposed to give troubled teens a new start. Hailed at the time as a local legend among parents struggli... |
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| 2023-05-04 | Should we separate the art from the artist? Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen tackle your questions in this bonus edition of Bad People. Warning: This episode may contain sensitive topics and some strong language. Thanks to everyone who sent us questions!... |
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| 2023-05-04 |
99. Central Park Jogger 2: How should we interview children? The Central Park Five confess on video to police and appear on every front page in America. But why did they confess if it’s not true? In this second episode of this two parter, Bad People hosts Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore how the police inte... |
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| 2023-04-27 |
98. Central Park Jogger 1: Do you know your right to silence? It’s 9pm in New York City. More than thirty young men have gathered on the corner of 110th Street and 5th Avenue. They are attacking innocent people in Central Park. What they don’t know is that a woman will also be sexually assaulted, and that five of... |
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| 2023-04-20 | In 2015 a woman in Saskatoon was strangled by a belt. Did her friend do it? She has been strangled by a belt that lies next to her body - the same belt her best friend was wearing in a photograph of the two of them that was posted on Facebook earlier... |
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