The Tip Off

In The Dark, the US podcast team, finished their acclaimed first series with a request: they wanted to hear what their audience thought they should be investigating next. And there, buried in the hundreds of responses they got was a simple, short email. An email about Curtis Flowers.

From dusting off records in abandoned jail cells to reconstructing get-away routes and tracking down mystery men, this is the story of how a team of investigative journalists exposed huge questions around a troubling death-row case.

Read all about it:

https://www.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/season-two

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music:  Dice Muse, Blue Dot Sessions, Podington Bear.

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Three continents, 80 interviews and an investigation that took more than a decade. This is the story of how Cam Simpson uncovered one of the great David vs. Goliath stories of our time.

In this episode, Cam wrestles with duplicitous sources, flies across the world twice and arranges an undercover embed, all to find out how 12 men came to die far from home, in the Iraqi desert.

Read all about it:

https://camsimpson.com/

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062449719/the-girl-from-kathmandu/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music:  Dice Muse, the Losers, Blue Dot Sessions. Recordings from Turku and Samuel Corwin.

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New Yorker writer Alexis Okeowo wants to tell stories differently. Her new book A Moonless Starless Sky, tells the stories of people affected by extremism in Africa.

In this episode, Alexis tells us how she came to find two of the main characters of her book: Eunice and Bosco, a couple with a complicated past.

Warning: mention of sexual violence.

Read all about it:

https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781472153708

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/04/uganda-sudan-trauma-child-soldiers-alexis-okeowo-moonless-starless-sky-book-extract

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music:  Dice Muse, Podington Bear, Springtide, Blue Dot Sessions.

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BBC File on Four's Alys Harte explores a shocking case of a sexually abused teenager who was failed by the authorities.

From speed-reading in-depth reports, to casting famous actors- this is the behind-the-scenes of how a team of journalists told an emotional and legally sensitive story.

Read all about it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y134b

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse, Podington Bear, the Losers, Blue Dot Sessions.

Tickets to Refuge Woman Tour:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2018-06-14/were-putting-investigative-journalism-on-stage-across-the-uk

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Ben Bryant was having fun, mingling with friends at a house party when inspiration struck in the most unusual way. This is the story of how one moment of piqued interest turned into a year of investigation.

From trawling the dark web to making contact with drug dealers, this is how Ben uncovered a previously unreported surge in fake prescription drugs.

Read all about it:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-british-teenagers-became-hooked-on-xanax-2fh6tqznw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/fake_xanax_the_uks_largest_ever_dark_net_drugs_bust

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Edited and co-produced: Cheeka Ayers

Music: Dice Muse, Podington Bear, the Losers.

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Gary Younge explains how he set out on a year long project to record the number of children and teenagers killed by knife violence.

Funerals, heartbreaking interviews and a tenacious hunt for data. This is the story of how a team of journalists produced award-winning and timely stories.

Read all about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/series/beyond-the-blade

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/05/what-the-life-of-quamari-serunkuma-barnes-tells-us-about-child-knife-deaths-in-britain

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/sep/19/the-boy-who-killed-and-the-mother-who-tried-to-stop-him

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Ayers

Music: Dice Muse and Trekks.

Listen to Letter to Q here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzGiBPDl5d0

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Madison Marriage broke a story that ricocheted around the world. The sleazy goings on of the President’s Club fundraising dinner provoked shock and outrage from all camps.

But where did it all begin…. ? This is the story of how Madison and a team of FT colleagues uncovered one of the biggest stories of the year so far.

Wanring: This episode contains some bad language and adult themes.

Read all about it:

https://www.ft.com/content/075d679e-0033-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5

https://www.ft.com/content/c6c8d488-0060-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Ayers

Music: Dice Muse, Podington Bear, The Losers and Blue Dot Sessions

Episode artwork: Andrew Garthwaite

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A sneak peek at what's coming in series 3.... and a quick ask!

We've been shortlisted for TWO British Podcast Awards- yippee! (Best New Podcast and Smartest Podcast). But we're up against some big names! If you want to help us out, you can vote for The Tip Off in the Listeners' Choice Award, it just takes a second at: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote

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A journalist is on the trail of a big story, unravelling how an 18 year-old rape victim came to be, not only disbelieved, but charged with false reporting after being attacked by a serial rapist. He is putting all the pieces together when he gets an email that will change everything…

Journalists Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller talk through how they told a story of two halves, one that wound up earning them a Pulitzer prize.

WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and bad language and is not suitable for all.

Read all about it:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/12/16/an-unbelievable-story-of-rape?ref=hp-2-112#.nXDOj42tQ

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/581/anatomy-of-doubt

https://www.amazon.co.uk/False-Report-T-Christian-Miller/dp/1786330806

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse, Podington Bear, Fake Cats Project

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After months of digging the end is in sight for Heidi Blake and the Buzzfeed team. They are piecing together a puzzle of mysterious deaths on British soil, and all the signs are pointing to Russian influence….

Then one night… a shady figure appears outside the journalist’s home...

Read all about it:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system?utm_term=.roABLnaNPR#.mkzxDMG72o

https://www.buzzfeed.com/janebradley/scientist-who-helped-connect-litvinenkos-murder-to-the?utm_term=.ch1Vp3oQ7L#.jjbvRoG806

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse, Blue Dot Sessions John Ripper

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