To ask for your BBC Sounds recommendations

I listened to the last of Death on the Farm yesterday on the train to Cardiff and I honestly let out a big gulp/sob when the forensic stuff was discussed. Even as a lay person it was so obviously not as it was originally classed.

Wow, it’s so strange how these links occur isn’t it?

Not horror per se but Cautionary Tales is brilliant!
Another vote for Lady Killers and You're Dead to Me

May have been mentioned but Uncanny, The Witch Farm and Battersea Poltergeist.

All experiences of potentially paranormal activity.

Million Dollar Lover is also fantastic - really, really interesting.

I have listened to the first two of these and will definitely listened to the third. Death in the Farm was utterly heartbreaking.

In a bizarre twist I used to know Terry Whall’s ex wife.

Young Again - Kirsty Young interviews famous people about their younger years and asks what they’d tell themselves if they could. The Philip Pullman and Minnie Driver ones are really good.

That all sounds really interesting. I'm going to acquaint myself with Bbc Sounds!

Listening to Little Dorrit atm - really good
love When it hits the fan
Dead Ringers is back - ‘I know!’

If you like drama then search for whodunnits and there’s a whole collection.

i also like Old Harry’s Game, Trust, Limelight,

I also like Evil Genius and You’re Dead to Me

I like It's A Fair Cop, Dead Ringers, Sliced Bread and Toast and No Such Thing As A Fish. I have also enjoyed comedies including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and old ones like All Gas and Gaiters.

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If its not already been mentioned, Its a Fair Cop - absolutely hilarious.

Route Masters

Young Again - Kirsty Young interviewing famous people about when they were young, some really interesting ones on their, I enjoyed Mel B's

Shreds: Murder in the Dock - about the murder of Lynette White and the subsequent investigation and one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice

Are you paying out of the goodness of your heart? You don't need a licence for radio alone.

I like Sliced bread and Toast, Just One Thing, the law programme (not sure of the name) in fact too many to mention, I listen a lot

Mine are all Welsh (not in language but the landscape):

• The Crossbow Killer (murder of Gerald Corrigan - mentioned up post)
• Crime Next Door: Death on the Farm (murders of Griff and Patti Thomas)
• Shreds: Murder in the dock (murder of Lynette White)

Before you think I am a complete nutter, they are all stories with a massive twist and some baffling outcomes in terms of justice - or lack thereof. I won’t say anything more as it would go into spoiler (if that’s an appropriate word) territory.

Ok, I think most of mine have been mentioned, but I don’t really listen to
music only podcasts so I have about a million:

It’s a fair cop - hilarious stand up by Policeman on sabbatical Alfie Moore

Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classical - amazing funny stand up about classical literature, etc.

A curious history of your home - one of the best things I’ve ever heard. History of every day objects with Ruth Goodman

You’re Dead to Me - Always amazing

Americast - always an interesting overview of American politics

No Such things as a Fish - interesting facts every week from the ‘Qi Elves’, always funny and interesting

Quite a Good Sport - two of the Elves from above look into different sports around the time of the olympics, fascinating and funny

Cautionary Tales - in depth dive into interesting things

News Quiz

More or Less

Word of Mouth - Beloved author Michael Rosen discusses language

Bad Women - the women murdered by Jack the Ripper, an in-depth look at their lives

Marianna In Conspiracyland

So you’ve been publicly shamed - Jon Ronson talks to people who have been publicly shamed, impact on them etc. super insightful

The Unbelievable Truth

Lady Killers

Seriously - a set of different documentaries a about different topics, but all interesting

Insisted sit a great one recently - think it was The Crime Next Door and was a series about a double murder in a remote Welsh farm; Death on the Farm. It was kind of heartbreaking but very good.

Also, “Who Killed Emma?” “ Sweet Bonny” and the Hampstead Child Abuse Hoax.

Going to try some of these. If you like spooky, The Witch Farm was fantastic, and the Battersea Poltergeist (both same guy as Uncanny but whole series on one case, with dramatisation of events)

My most listened to thing is John Finnemores Souvenir programme if you like comedy - totally my comfort listen (you can probably tell I'm a bit stressed if you catch me listening to that or a Jane Austen audiobook!). Other good comedy : The Confessional, Dead Ringers, Mark Watson Talks a bit about life, mark steels in town, That Mitchell and Webb sound.

Factual stuff that's been good : The Coming Storm, Things fell apart, Shreds: Murder in the Dock, Vishal, the Shamima Begum story. And You're dead to me.