Behind the Crimes with Robert Murphy

True Crime

A podcast about crime - both real and fictitious # WINNER: Outstanding Indie Podcast @ True Crime Awards 2024 # Crime is one of the biggest genres in books and on TV: both true crime and fiction. Why? What makes a criminal? What drives a person to...

Episodes

Val McDermid: The Stories Too Dark for Fiction

Anthony Horowitz: Murder is a fast way to become interested in people.

David Baldacci: The real crimes which inspired his fiction

Gone - the series finale: Director Richard Laxton

ITV's Gone: Screenwriter George Kay and the crimes that shaped a drama

Julie Mackay: The real-life inspiration behind the ITV drama 'Gone'

Luther & The Iris Affair: the crime creations of Booker Award-nominated Neil Cross

The women serial killers of Papal Rome: The Book of Secrets with Anna Mazzola

Beautiful Shadow: The twisted world of Patricia Highsmith

Simon McCleave: From screenplays to the Snowdonia Killings

Mark Gatiss: The True Crime of the Bookish era

The true crimes which inspired The Golden Age of Murder

John Le Carré - taking on the spymaster's Smiley series: Nick Harkaway

Lee Child: Jack Reacher, my true crime inspiration, my writing craft and why I've left America

Drug Wars

Lord Lucan, his nannies and a fifty-year mystery. A three-part podcast.

Deep Undercover: Neil Woods

In Cold Blood - A century of Truman Capote

The crime writer who made £1 million from Nicole Kidman

Billie-Jo Jenkins and her accused foster father: Wanted man or witch hunt?