Strange But True Crime

By BBC Local Radio

Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.

Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identitie

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FAQs about Strange But True Crime:

How many episodes does Strange But True Crime have?

The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.

Strange But True Crime episodes:

January 21, 2026 No Crime for Old Men
Gary Hardy, Ronald Knowles and Steven Houston are approaching pension age, but they refuse to settle into their retirement years. Instead, they combine their skills and hatch a deadly plan to make and supply deadly weapons to British gangs. But after a life of crime, is this one job too many for the old boys?
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Jeremy Ball
Produced by Luke de Costa
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Social Media: Fede Marilotti
Online Producer: Lee Macaulay
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin
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30min
January 14, 2026 Baby Barter
Herbert Smith, the ‘Handcuff King’, and his girlfriend, Lottie Roberts, are circus performers who secretly buy and sell babies for profit in Edwardian Britain. But they’ll need more than a disappearing act to fight the families who come after them.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Richard Tisdale
Produced by Luke de Costa
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Social Media: Fede Marilotti
Online Producer: Lee Macaulay
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin
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27min
January 07, 2026 My Criminal Romance
HMP Kirkham Prison governor Kerri Pegg and drug dealing gang boss Anthony Saunderson strike up a dangerous relationship.
If they're found out, it will have life changing consequences for Pegg.
Get in touch at [email protected].
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Mat Trewern.
Produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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34min
December 24, 2025 Bonus: Pick up a penguin
Former zoo worker Bradley Tomes hatches a plan to steal and sell Humboldt penguins Patrick and Penny from South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria.
Get in touch at [email protected].
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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14min
December 17, 2025 Poo Dunnit?
Criminal mastermind, James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen, steals a world famous golden toilet worth £4.8m from Blenheim Palace. But who’s going to take it off his hands?
Get in touch at [email protected]
Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Clodagh Stenson
Produced by Luke de Costa
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Social Media: Fede Marilotti
Online Producer: Lee Macaulay
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin
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35min
December 10, 2025 The Cannabis Martyr
Gary Youds senses that cannabis drug legalisation is imminent and opens up a cannabis café in Liverpool. The law change doesn’t happen, so police shut it down.
Gary goes to jail, however, he continues to fight for the right to keep his cannabis café open.
Get in touch at [email protected].
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Mattha Busby.
Produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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31min
December 03, 2025 Crossbow at the Castle
Jaswant Chail wants to bring down ‘the empire’ and his first act is to harm a British Royal.
Inspired by Star Wars and encouraged by his ‘girlfriend’, he puts his deadly plan into action.
Get in touch at [email protected].
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Maria Zaccaro.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
This programme contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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29min
November 26, 2025 Body of Proof
NHS surgeon Neil Hopper was hailed as a hero when he returned to work after having both his legs amputated, however, he hides a dark secret.
His secret? The damage to his legs was self-inflicted.
Get in touch via email: [email protected].
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Tamsin Melville.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
Details of information and support with body image are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.
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30min
November 19, 2025 The Bitcoin Bandit
James Parker, from Blackpool in Lancashire stumbles upon a glitch on a cryptocurrency website that generates ‘free’ money.
He makes himself a millionaire, at a cost.
Wanna get in touch? Email us at [email protected].
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Jane Downs.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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33min
November 12, 2025 Act of Tree-son
Farmer Walter Renwick finds himself in the eye of a social media storm after the famous Sycamore Gap tree is felled.
The tree had stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland until September 2023.
Wanna get in touch? Email us at [email protected]
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Jane Downs.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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33min

FAQs about Strange But True Crime:

How many episodes does Strange But True Crime have?

The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.

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