Your questions answered | David Breakspear and Dr. Ruth Armstrong
We love receiving your questions, thoughts and comments. Email us at podcasts@prison.radio.In this final episode before we take a summer break, we answer questions from listeners inside prison and lis...
7 Juli 202557min
The Future of Probation: Part 3 | Martin Jones CBE, Professor Nicola Carr and Dr. Matthew Millings
In 2014, probation services in England and Wales underwent the most radical shake-up for generations in a part-privatisation process known as Transforming Rehabilitation. Seven years later, in 2021, t...
30 Juni 202547min
Windrush | James Batchelor and Colin McFarlane
James Batchelor is an educator, musician, film-maker and producer. He spent a time behind bars where he became a presenter for National Prison Radio. Jimmy has continued to work with the Prison Radio ...
16 Juni 202538min
Holloway | Tamar and Daisy-May Hudson
Tamar spent a short period of time in HMP Holloway, a women's prison in North London, in 2016. Months later, the prison was closed for good. The buildings became derelict. Several years later, Tamar w...
9 Juni 202536min
Life on licence | Zak Addae-Kodua and Cecilia Goodwin
Zak Addae-Kodua is one half of Zak and Jules, the presenting team behind the award-winning Life After Prison podcast. He has experienced several stints out on licence and explains why it's not always ...
2 Juni 202541min
How to run a festival in a prison | David Kendall and Jailhouse Moose
Ten years ago, David Kendall decided to put on an entire festival of arts and literature inside HMP Lewes. This was the birth of Penned Up, a unique annual event which is now in its tenth year, and wh...
26 Maj 202533min
*Emergency Podcast* The Independent Sentencing Review | David Shipley
On the day David Gauke, the former Justice Secretary, publishes his long-awaited Independent Sentencing Review, we get analysis from the journalist David Shipley who served a sentence for fraud in 202...
22 Maj 202554min
The extreme far-right in prison | Nigel Bromage and Graham Finochio
Nigel Bromage was a prominent member of several far-right groups, including British Movement and Combat 18, for 20 years. During that time, he was close to events that could easily have led him to pri...
19 Maj 202553min
