
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


15% of the DNA on your hands isn't even yours. So, could you be found guilty of a crime you didn't commit? Just because your DNA was found at the scene?
Professor Georgina Meakin is an expert in DNA transfer. She studies how DNA is moved from people to things, from things to people, and what it means in the context of crime. She exclusively works in defence, and has worked across an incredibly high profile case in the UK, involving a man named 'Flakey Dave'.
Hear what happened to Flakey Dave, as host Kathryn Fox unpacks Georgina's work, and gets an understanding of how DNA can be used to convict, but also defend.
If this content affected you, the number for lifeline is 13 11 14.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
By LiSTNR4
2121 ratings
15% of the DNA on your hands isn't even yours. So, could you be found guilty of a crime you didn't commit? Just because your DNA was found at the scene?
Professor Georgina Meakin is an expert in DNA transfer. She studies how DNA is moved from people to things, from things to people, and what it means in the context of crime. She exclusively works in defence, and has worked across an incredibly high profile case in the UK, involving a man named 'Flakey Dave'.
Hear what happened to Flakey Dave, as host Kathryn Fox unpacks Georgina's work, and gets an understanding of how DNA can be used to convict, but also defend.
If this content affected you, the number for lifeline is 13 11 14.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

183 Listeners

367 Listeners

2 Listeners

1,331 Listeners

460 Listeners

24 Listeners

769 Listeners

3 Listeners

534 Listeners

153 Listeners

0 Listeners

194 Listeners

598 Listeners

20 Listeners

0 Listeners

8 Listeners

258 Listeners

6 Listeners

101 Listeners

134 Listeners

93 Listeners

43 Listeners

227 Listeners

69 Listeners

355 Listeners

116 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

2 Listeners

99 Listeners

0 Listeners

73 Listeners

24 Listeners