The Tip Off

One December day, Samira Shackle found herself in the midst of an unfolding, global story. Drones had been spotted flying around Gatwick Airport. But weeks, then months passed, and no drone operators were ever found.

Samira lays out how she dug into the mystery and revealed all was not as it first seemed. 

Read all about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-of-the-gatwick-drone  

https://samirashackle.com/karachi-vice/ 

This show is a co-production of Studio to be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan 

Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda

Producer: Olivia Aylmer

Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens

Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza

Transcription support: Soobin Kim

Theme music: Dice muse

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Annabel Hennessy was reporting on another case when she heard a name that would change everything. A lawyer, expert in First Nations’ rights, told her about Jody Gore - a woman convicted of murder with little weight given to the years of domestic abuse she suffered.

This story unravels how Annabel’s groundbreaking series of articles led to real change in Western Australia.

WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of domestic abuse and may not be suitable for all. ​​If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic violence, support is available globally through a number of hotlines and organisations, some are listed below.

Note - a previous version of this episode wrongly called Annabel's paper the Western Australian, it is, of course: the West Australian. Apologies.

Read all about it: 

https://thewest.com.au/news/court-justice/kill-or-be-killed-chapter-one-the-incarceration-of-jody-gore-ng-b881296125z

https://thewest.com.au/features/kill-or-be-killed-chapter-three-the-crisis-centre-files-ignored-at-jody-gores-murder-trial-ng-b881317254z 

Interview with Dr Hannah McGlade, from Noongar Dandjoo TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5o91-fvYiE

This show is a co-production of Studio to be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan 

Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda

Producer: Olivia Aylmer

Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens

Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza

Transcription support: Rushana Miller

Theme music: Dice muse

​​If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic violence, support is available globally through a number of hotlines and organisations. Here are just a few:

22 Standout Groups Stopping Domestic Violence: https://greatist.com/happiness/stop-domestic-violence-organizations#get-help-now

AUSTRALIA

Djirra, an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation which provides holistic, culturally safe and specialist legal and non-legal support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience family violence – predominantly women: https://djirra.org.au/who-we-are/

1800RESPECT: https://www.1800respect.org.au/help-and-support/services-overview

UK

Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline: https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/

USA

National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/

CANADA

Shelter Safe: https://sheltersafe.ca/

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What do you do if the data you need doesn’t exist? 

When the pandemic hit I couldn’t stop wondering about how the impact of lockdown, sickness or bereavement on people’s ability to pay their rent or mortgage. I wanted to know more, but I couldn’t do it alone. This is the story of how a group of more than 20 journalists, all across England and Wales, came together in one of the largest court-reporting projects of its kind.

Read all about it: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-09-23/evicted-in-less-than-10-minutes-courts-fail-tenants-broken-by-pandemic 

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-11-03/banks-repossessions-pandemic-mortgages 

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2021-10-05/closeddoors-how-local-journalists-exposed-pandemic-evictions 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58643437 

This show is a co-production of Studio to be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan 

Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda

Producer: Olivia Aylmer

Audio Editing and sound design: Maeve McClenaghan

Voice acting: Francis Whittaker

Original music: Claudia Meza

Theme music: Dice muse

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Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones think they have everything they need to finally expose Jimmy Savile’s abhorrent crimes. But as their transmission date gets nearer, their BBC bosses start to pull back.

This is the story of how the BBC came to drop the Newsnight investigation into Savile and the seismic consequences of that decision.

This is the second part of a two-episode story.

Read all about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/02/jimmy-savile-bbc-journalists-risked-jobs-reveal-truth 

https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-10-04/watch-the-itv-documentary-on-jimmy-savile/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victim-Zero-Jimmy-Savile-Tried/dp/1786060299

https://www.channel4.com/news/by/jackie-long/blogs/my-friend-liz-mackean-a-forensic-journalist-who-had-time-for-people-who-others-ignored

https://www.channel4.com/news/hunted-russia-gay-dispatches-channel-4-video 

Special thanks to Liz MacKean's family for their support.

This show is a co-production of Studio to be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan 

Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda

Producer: Olivia Aylmer

Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens

Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza

Transcription support: Soobin Kim

Theme music: Dice muse

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Meirion Jones has had a strange feeling about Jimmy Savile for some time and he thinks he may have a way to probe further. When Savile dies, Meirion teams up with Liz MacKean to try and get to the truth.

This is how Liz and Meirion pulled together the pieces - in an attempt to finally bring Savile’s crimes to light.

Many thanks to Liz MacKean's family for allowing me to use audio from an un-aired interview in 2015.

This is the first part of a two-episode story - stay tuned next week for part 2.

This show is a co-production of Studio to be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan 

Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda

Producer: Olivia Aylmer

Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens

Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza

Transcription support: Rushana Miller

Theme music: Dice muse

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Zak Garner-Purkis is sat in a fastfood restaurant - his attention laser-focused on the men gathering across the road. He is trying to work out who these man are, how they have come to be there, and whether this is what modern day slavery looks like in 21st century London?

This is the story of how Zak went undercover to expose a shocking system of exploitation in the construction industry.

Read all about it: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/investigations/how-i-bought-slave-labour-in-london-an-undercover-investigation-19-12-2019/ 

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/investigations/stop-funding-slavery-19-12-2019/

Transcript available: http://thetipoffpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Transcript-The-Tip-Off-S9-Ep54-How-it-gets-built.pdf

This show is a co-production of Studio to be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan 

Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda

Producer: Olivia Aylmer

Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens

Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza

Transcription support: Soobin Kim

Theme music: Dice muse

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Creator and host of The Tip Off, Maeve McClenaghan has written a book, and it is now out in paperback.

No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless tells highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real people struggling in a crumbling system. The book goes behind the scenes of the dramatic, winding investigation that revealed - for the first time - how and when people were dying homeless in one of the richest countries in the world.

This paperback edition includes a new preface covering the impact of Covid-19.

Here’s some of the nice things people have said about it:

“A conscience-pricking look at the reality of life on Britain’s streets . . . No Fixed Abode couldn’t be more illuminating, timely and urgent.” - Sunday Times

“Urgent, gripping and devastating” - the Secret Barrister

“A campaigning book of the very highest order” - Irish Times

‘A meticulous investigation exposes the shameful truths surrounding the UK’s homeless population . . . moving and revealing” - Guardian

Available here and in all good bookshops: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Maeve-McClenaghan/No-Fixed-Abode--Life-and-Death-Among-the-UKs-Forgotten-Homeless/25638386

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Sarah Turnnidge started her journalism career at local papers so it was there she first encountered press releases from police forces. But over time Sarah started to wonder - did they tell the whole story.

In this episode Sarah talks through her meticulous data project which revealed a worrying disproportionality when it came to information put out about black criminals.

Read all about it:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/metropolitan-police_uk_603fa18ec5b617a7e411ffc5 

This episode was made with the production support of Studio To Be. 

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Edited by: Alice Milliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

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