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True Crime Fiction
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Your host is Mairi Campbell-Jack, long-listed for the Crime Writing Associations' debut dagger and a finalist in the Amazon Publishing New Voices Awards. Mairi guides you through the best of true crime and crime fiction podcasting and books. Regular reviews and guest interviews appear on the podcast and website, as well as a shop where you can buy reviewed books while supporting..
True Crime Fiction
1M ago
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Mairi thinks about the issues that are brought up by The Fact of a Body, an astounding book about forgiveness and the death penalty, She find that although it is a challenging read, it is one that digs deep.
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True Crime Fiction
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This wee we have some updates for you on three cases we have previously covered. West Cork, Sycamore Gap and the trial of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. At the end we've got the original episodes of West Cork and Sycamore Gap.
Hope you all have a good weekend!
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Finishing off our trilogy of programmes we take James Ellroy's true crime memoire My Dark Places and Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer and compare the two asking what they tell us about masculinity and trauma.
Links are for Feast of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jruf3jWqbtI&t=39s the James Ellroy documentary. As well as...
Darren mcGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwdmv1X4dOA&t=50s
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True Crime Fiction
2M ago
Part two of our look at James Ellroy's memoire My Dark Places and comparing it to Netflix hit Baby Reindeer looks at Baby Reindeer, and some of the many questions around it. Next week there will be apart three where we compare the two.
Here is a Youtube link to the documentary mentioned in this episode Feast of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jruf3jWqbtI&t=35s
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True Crime Fiction
2M ago
Mairi thinks about the true crime cannon and presents The Red Parts, and Jane: A Muder, as contenders. One is prose and one is poetry, and although poetry is not a type of writing often found in true crime the melding of the two togehter produce some wonderful writing.
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True Crime Fiction
3M ago
We wanted to compare the James Ellroy memoire My Dark Places with Netflix hit Baby Reindeer. We realised quickly though there was too much to say for one episode so here is part one, and we will release part two on Baby Reindeer soon. To get part two early and ad free then please check out the patreon.
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True Crime Fiction
3M ago
Mairi delves into the story of Meghan Bahri, who run a successful charity for children with serious illnes and uncovers what different societal forces converge in Facticious Illness Disorder.
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True Crime Fiction
3M ago
Mairi and Phil take some time to delve into the case of Elaine O'Hara who was murdered by Graeme Dwyer, and ask if some of the tropes around the case are really ture?
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True Crime Fiction
3M ago
Mairi and Phil take some time to delve into the case of Elaine O'Hara who was murdered by Graeme Dwyer, and ask if some of the tropes around the case are really ture?
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True Crime Fiction
4M ago
Mairi looks at the BBC podcast about eco terrorism in the 1990s as time and attitudes have moved on are those acts of arson as bad as they seemed at the time?
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