Intrigue

Chasing Mr Sunshine reveals the shocking truth behind Britain’s biggest local authority financial scandal. How was one council allowed to take such extraordinary risks and why were repeated warnings ignored? Investigative journalists Catrin Nye and Meirion Jones uncover how public money was lost – where did the money go and who should answer for what happened?

Presenters: Catrin Nye and Meirion Jones

Before a new series of Intrigue arrives, we’re sharing a story from another BBC podcast.

Killer On The Ward is the latest series in Disclosure Investigates, the award-winning investigations podcast from the Disclosure team in Scotland. It’s the story of Colin Norris, a former staff nurse, who, in 2008, was convicted of killing four elderly patients and attempting to murder a fifth. The legal case has given investigative journalist Louise Shorter more sleepless nights than any other story. Did Colin Norris kill his patients? Or has the UK spent two decades believing the wrong story?

This is Episode 1. To hear every episode of Killer On The Ward, search for Disclosure Investigates and listen first on BBC Sounds.

I'm Not A Monster Presents... Where is Austin Tice?

Josh Baker investigates one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time. American journalist Austin Tice vanished in Syria, but the US president says he’s alive. For more than a decade Austin's mother Debra has been leading the search for her son. As Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat travel to Syria to help Austin’s mother’s search, a source gives Josh information that might unlock where he is - and a simple instruction: “Find Austin.”

Josh - creator of two of the BBC's most award-winning and widely listened-to investigative podcasts, I'm Not a Monster and The Shamima Begum Story - returns for his most ambitious chapter yet, in a major new series from BBC Radio 4 and NPR's Embedded.

Listen to the podcast - search for 'I'm Not a Monster presents'.

Archive: Houston Public Media; NBC; PBS; CNN; C-SPAN; MSNBC; The White House; BBC.

Writer and showrunner: Josh Baker

Terry Strada spies the FBI Director in a VIP area. Can she get to him to make her case before time runs out? A new generation is preparing to step into the fight for answers.

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

Decades of arguments and evidence land before a judge. Terry Strada’s hopes hang on how he pieces it all together: an airplane sketch, a video from Washington, and call records between Saudi officials in the US. FBI Special Agent Danny Gonzalez is confident: “Put all these little pieces together and make one big puzzle and you'll see it.”

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

When one of Omar Al-Bayoumi’s home videos contains more than was first thought, FBI Special Agent Danny Gonzalez is shocked. Decades after he should have seen it, can it make a difference?

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

To keep a promise to her kids, Terry Strada must master an unknown world and defy a president...all in uncomfortable shoes. She’s pounding the corridors of power in Washington, but a decisive moment comes at an opulent party on Long Island.

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

The FBI’s Danny Gonzalez suffers setbacks professional and personal after British police release the man at the centre of his investigation: Omar Al-Bayoumi. And official inquiries fail to provide Terry Strada the answers she so badly needs.

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

Terry Strada joins a lawsuit on behalf of 9/11 families, while Special Agent Danny Gonzalez and the FBI continue their investigation in secret.

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

Inside Britain's most secure interrogation room, Detective Constable David Campbell of Scotland Yard's anti-terror branch has just seven days to question the hijackers’ neighbour from San Diego.

Host: Jane McMullen

Series producer: Neal Razzell

Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle

Editor: Matt Willis

Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons

Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King

Production management: Phoebe Lomas

Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams

Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke