Finding the common ground | Alice Dawnay and Kam
Alice Dawnay founded the charity Switchback in 2008, which supports young Londoners to find a way out of the justice system. She's now part of the team that's just launched the Common Ground Justice P...
10 Mars 202533min
Why me? | Khamran Uddin and Keeva Baxter
In 2013, Khamran Uddin wrote a letter to the man he had violently assaulted in a random attack on a deserted railway platform. The victim was coming home from work as he did every day when Khamran ser...
3 Mars 202542min
The culture of sentencing | David Gauke
David Gauke is the former Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Hertfordshire, the former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, and the Chair of the Labour government's Indepe...
24 Feb 202547min
Talent development | Richie Makepeace and Nancy Prentice
Richie Makepeace was just trying to keep his head down and get through his prison sentence in HMP Brixton when he was offered a job in the prison's radio production training workshop. Like many people...
17 Feb 202537min
The most serious development in decades | Michael Kennedy and Ian Vandersluys
Spice, a name for a group of synthetic drugs that have gripped prisons over the past decade, are said by researchers at Middlesex University's Drug and Alcohol Research Centre to have played a role in...
10 Feb 202533min
Diagnosis | Scout Tzofiya Bolton and Michelle Walsh
Scout Tzofiya Bolton is a poet, activist, radio producer and the author of The Mad Art of Doing Time. She went to prison in 2023 where she received excellent care for the mental health conditions that...
3 Feb 202540min
Sentencing: A Primer | Tim Owen KC
Tim Owen KC is a criminal barrister who has sat as a Deputy High Court Judge. He is a co-host of Double Jeopardy: The Law and Politics Podcast. You can find the sentencing guidelines for all offences...
27 Jan 202534min
Telling stories | Mickey Dehara and Max Porter
Mickey Dehara is a screenwriter who has frequently collaborated with the director Guy Richie, including playing a starring role in the film Snatch. He served a prison sentence in the early 2010s when ...
20 Jan 202541min
