The Tip Off

For years Alon Aviram and Adam Cantwell-Corn followed a story - a story that took them to dingy warehouses, stake-outs in cars, and undercover work in ice cream vans. This is how the Bristol Cable tracked alleged wrongdoing in one of the city’s well-known businesses.

The multi-award winning investigation took years and had big impact… this is how they did it.

Read all about it: https://thebristolcable.org/2019/05/finally-exposed-how-lopresti-ice-cream-boss-kept-men-in-slave-like-conditions-tenants-and-families-in-squalor-but-people-spoke-out/

https://thebristolcable.org/2019/10/revealed-an-anti-slavery-court-order-was-made-against-local-boss-lopresti-heres-evidence-it-may-be-being-breached/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Alice Miliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. Thanks to our Patreon supporters who make these stories possible - you can support us at: https://www.patreon.com/thetipoff

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This week we offer you a taste of something new... enjoy an extract from new podcast series The Immaculate Deception.

Fertility doctor Jan Karbaat was renowned for getting amazing results. Women who were desperate for children would visit him at his Rotterdam clinic and always leave pregnant. But when the clinic closed, rumours began about the methods Karbaat used to achieve his success. The children conceived at the clinic - the Karbaat Kids - began asking difficult questions about what happened to their mothers. 

What happened in Dr Karbaat’s clinic? From Somethin’ Else, The Immaculate Deception is a story about a doctor who was determined to create life - by any means possible. Reported and hosted by Jenny Kleeman. 

Find it now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Journalist Louise Tickle is one of a handful of reporters who covers a secretive and little known area of UK life… the family courts. In this episode she explains the many challenges she faces in reporting even the most egregious cases of wrong-doing, and talks through a potentially precedent setting case.

Read all about it:

https://openfamilycourt.wordpress.com/

https://www.patreon.com/louisetickle

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/19/right-open-family-courts-scrutiny-high-court

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While researching the effects of the One Child Policy in China, LA Times journalist Barbara Demick stumbles upon an extraordinary story: twin sisters, one of whom was forcibly adopted away to the USA. Barbara sets off to find the missing twin, and reunite the family. 

Read all about it:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-07/how-a-journalist-discovered-and-reunited-identical-twins

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Alice Milliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hundreds of miles apart, journalists Jessica Purkiss and JD are working to get answers. They are looking for accountability and justice for an Afghan man named Masih. Masih’s entire family was wiped out in an airstrike, on his house in a remote part of Afghanistan. 

This is the story of how Masih worked with journalists around the world to get to the truth. 

Read all about it: 

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-06-03/us-bomb-kills-afghan-family

https://youtu.be/cUNihuiCp3o

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Alice Milliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jodi Kantor was given a beat and had been pointed at a tweet - a single tweet, without any names included that would set her on a months-long investigation. Teaming up with Megan Twohey, the two New York Times’ journalists set off to uncover one of the biggest scandals of the decade: a slew of allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

(Weinstein and lawyers representing his former company went on to deny all wrong-doing.)

This is the story of what went into breaking a major story that started a viral, online movement. 

Read all about it: 

Jodi and Megan’s book She Said is out now and available from all good booksellers: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586563/she-said-by-jodi-kantor-and-megan-twohey/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

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In a crowded tent at Latitude Festival, journalist Charlie Mole explains how he tracked back how a conspiracy theory had grown and developed, finally ending up on US national news.

In this show, recorded in front of a live audience, Charlie explains how the death of a young Democrat staffer, sparked an elaborate story about revenge killings, secret leaks and shady forces at work.

Help support the show: www.patreon.com/thetipoff

Read all about it:

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/conspiracy-files-murder-in-washington-bbc2/5127901.article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43727858

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Ayers

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After working for years to put together the pieces of how a massacre had gone unsolved, Barry and his team publish their findings. But that is far from the end of the story…

This is how Barry got sucked into the story himself - after being arrested and taken to court, all for trying to report the truth.

Read all about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/31/northern-ireland-judge-rebukes-police-for-seizing-papers-from-journalists

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48504287

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/09/19/news/rte-to-screen-loughinisland-documentary-no-stone-unturned-1716947/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Ayers

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The violent, protracted conflict known as The Troubles claimed many innocent victims in Northern Ireland. But one atrocity stood out for journalist Barry McCaffrey - the massacred of six men in the quiet, tiny village of Loughinisland. The killings stuck with him, in part because it seemed so clear who the suspects were, so why were they walking free?

Barry explains how he spent years digging into what happened after the massacre, an investigation that would be developed into the acclaimed Alex Gibney film No Stone Unturned. It is a story that would have unintended consequences… 

Read all about it:

https://www.thedetail.tv/articles/loughinisland-collusion-or-myth

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Stone-Unturned-Aidan-OToole/dp/B078HQSC2M

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Ayers

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amelia Gentleman’s work exposing the Windrush Scandal is some of the most impactful and well-renowned journalism of recent years. But where did it all begin?

Amelia explains how a simple email she received while on holiday, set off a chain of events that would lead to arguably the biggest story of her illustrious career.

Read all about it: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-windrush-betrayal/amelia-gentleman//9781783351848

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Alice Milliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.