Send us a Text Message. 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 Support the Show ..read more

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 Support the Show ..read more

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.  Support the Show ..read more

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. Support the Show ..read more

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.  Support the show ..read more

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? Support the show ..read more

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? Support the show ..read more

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? Support the show ..read more

Mairi thinks about what recent rulings in the case of Emma Caldwell and Sarah Everard mean for women and how society can work to make itself safer.   Support the show ..read more

With a ruling from the High Court about Shamima Begum's British citizenship Mairi updates us on what has happened, and what may happen next.  Including the original episode 108 The Crime and Punishment of Shamima Begum.  Support the show ..read more