Justice for Joan: The inspirational story of a family's historic pursuit of a murderer

Justice for Joan: The inspirational story of a family's historic pursuit of a murderer

On Boxing Day 1994, 27-year-old gynaecologist Dr Joan Francisco was found strangled in her London flat - but her family faced an agonising five-year legal battle before her volatile ex-boyfriend was finally brought to justice. Did police and prosecutors treat them differently because they were black? Award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright talks to Joan’s sister Margaret about how the Stephen Lawrence case inspired the family to pursue a landmark civil case, their joy at finally getting ‘Justice for Joan’, and the lessons that the case offers for the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Last Days of Diana: No one’s above the law

Last Days of Diana: No one’s above the law

Central to the conspiracy theories around Princess Diana’s death was an accusation that Princes Charles and Prince Philip had been involved in a plot to kill her in a staged car crash - fears voiced b...

20 Jul 202135min

Last Days of Diana: Blood Conspiracy

Last Days of Diana: Blood Conspiracy

Mysteries still remained after Diana’s death - was the Princess pregnant? Why did it take so long for emergency services to get her to hospital... and could she have been saved? In the fourth of our s...

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Last Days of Diana: A Note From the Grave

Last Days of Diana: A Note From the Grave

Princess Diana’s tragic death would prompt a three-year investigation by Scotland Yard - but what crime had been committed… and who was really to blame? In the third episode of a new seven-part Beyond...

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Last Days of Diana: A World in Shock

Last Days of Diana: A World in Shock

The death of Princess Diana in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris sent shockwaves around the world, with mourners taking to the streets in Britain and in Paris - and photographers surrounding the French...

28 Jun 202138min

Last Days of Diana: The crash

Last Days of Diana: The crash

On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into a pillar in a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podca...

27 Jun 202136min

NEW SERIES:  Last Days of Diana

NEW SERIES: Last Days of Diana

On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new six-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast...

18 Jun 20212min

Bent cops and cover ups: the axe murder of Daniel Morgan

Bent cops and cover ups: the axe murder of Daniel Morgan

In March 1987, private investigator Daniel Morgan was brutally killed in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, with an axe embedded in his skull - but more than three decades later, no one ...

17 Jun 202122min

Fred West's missing 'victim': the Mary Bastholm mystery

Fred West's missing 'victim': the Mary Bastholm mystery

Mary Bastholm vanished from a Gloucester bus stop in January 1968, while en route to visit her boyfriend. She was just 15 years old and her disappearance was completely out of character. Within months...

3 Jun 202128min

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