The Tip Off

In the corner room of Buzzfeed’s office is a wall is covered with photographs. Photographs that are linked up in a web of connections. Photographs of dead men.These are the people Heidi Blake suspects were killed with impunity on British soil.

This is the story of how Heidi and a team of reporters followed the clues surrounding a series of mysterious deaths, back to the same, shady source.

(This is the first in a two part episode.)

Read all about it:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-14-suspected-hits-on-british-soil?utm_term=.auAz5gv9ow#.wcRPV72yqk

Pentagon Papers clip from Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/the-pentagon-papers-secrets-lies-and-leaks/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse and The Losers

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Tip offs for a story can come in many forms, but for Alistair one investigation he worked on started in the worst way imaginable: with the death of a loved one.

From a hospital car-park in the Midlands to a meeting with the Health Secretary, the BBC’s Alistair Jackson sets off to explore sepsis deaths in the UK.

Read all about it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0957545

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41204389

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4868872/Alistair-Jackson-discovered-mother-died-needlessly.html

UK Sepsis Trust: https://sepsistrust.org/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse and Podington Bear

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When you set out on an investigation you usually start with a hypothesis- an idea that you will test and challenge as you go. But not Paul Myles…

Working for On Our Radar, Paul set out to tell the story of dementia in the UK. Hours spent on trains, workshops around the country and 3D printed phones brought him to Agnes, Melvyn and dozens of others. Together they give a never-before-seen insight into life with the condition.

Read all about it:

https://dementiadiaries.org/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/inspiring-tales-coping-with-dementia?utm_term=.raENZvdoA#.yoaMagBGd

https://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2017/jan/30/dementia-diaries-its-like-trying-to-go-through-a-brick-wall-video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/15/dealing-with-dementia-those-living-with-condition-outline-dos-an/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse and Lee Rosevere

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Leah Borromeo sees journalism differently to most. Or rather she hears it. Leah and colleagues are working on a project to tell investigative journalism through music.

So Maeve went along to the studio, to hear just exactly what that means.

Read all about it:

https://www.disobedientfilms.com/if-the-oceans-could-speak

https://www.disobedientfilms.com/climate-symphony

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse and Climate Symphony

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Ep. 11 Putting a price on health

Billy Kenber set out to look into one story and ended up finding another. Hidden within open datasets was proof of a practice that was costing the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds a year.

Battling to put the pieces together in a quagmire of complex pricing structures and regulations understood by very few people, Billy blew the lid of a multi-million pound industry. And in the end one failed hypothesis led to an investigation that would change the law.

Read all about it:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/extortionate-prices-add-260m-to-nhs-drug-bill-8mwtttwdk

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victory-against-rip-off-drug-firms-after-times-investigation-qm6hlmqts

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse and Podington Bear

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Jennifer Williams, of the Manchester Evening News, was hearing horrible stories coming from two hospitals in her patch. Rumour had it, there was a damning report out there... but getting hold of it would be easier said than done.

Sources, FOI battles and an envelope full of surprises- this is the story of how one reporter revealed mothers and babies dying at a worrying rate.

Read all about it:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pennine-acute-maternity-secret-report-12218989

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pennine-acute-maternity-report-revealed-12220033

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music: Dice Muse, Komiku, John Spacek and Podington Bear

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