19. A Different Kind of Justice

At thirty-one, mathematician Chris McKinlay is looking for love. But if it’s all a numbers game, his are not adding up. Could he be the problem? Or is something else getting in the way? Producer: Lauren Armstrong Carter Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John Yorke 

Best-selling author Matthew Syed explores the ideas that shape our lives with stories of seeing the world differently.In this taster from the series, Matthew explores the beauty that can be found in the process of decay.Search for Sideways on BBC Sounds to hear more. 

An ambitious portfolio manager stumbles upon a perfect graph. It outlines eye watering profits. But something doesn't quite add up - could this graph be accurate? Or does it hide a far more sinister truth? Producer Lauren Armstrong Carter Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls Story Editor ... Show More

In 1984, an American harpsichord player called Scott Ross quit a teaching job in Canada and returned to France, the country that since he was a teenager had been his adopted home. It was the year that Frankie Goes to Hollywood had a Europe-wide hit with Two Tribes and Steve Jobs ... Show More

Pour son 3ème livre Fabrice EPSTEIN est au micro de Frédéric TADDEI. Dans cet ouvrage : "Black Music Justice : Une histoire judiciaire" aux éditions la Manufacture de livres, Fabrice met en avant les chroniques judiciaires sur de grands artistes rocks. Il revient notamment sur la ... Show More

L’effroyable histoire de Robert Alan Durst nous montre que la richesse n’est définitivement pas source de bonheur. Elle n’efface ni le manque d’amour, ni la perversion, ni le meurtre. Héritier d’une famille ayant fait fortune dans l’immobilier, cet Américain a défrayé les chroniq ... Show More

In 2003, a Wall Street trader named John Rusnak was convicted of bank fraud and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. In this episode, John explains how a series of bad bets snowballed into one of the biggest white-collar crimes in US history and why he kept doubling down ... Show More

As this series has been publishing, we’ve been contacted by many listeners, including about a dozen contacts from people who are new witnesses to events around Ireland in September 1976 - and who it appears could have been potential victims of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. Even a ... Show More

Prison breaks loom large in both literature and pop culture. But how should we evaluate them ethically? New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks what a world without prison would look like. His essay explores whether those unjustly incarcerated have the moral right to break out ... Show More

In this new season of Culpable, host Dennis Cooper investigates a bizarre case in a small Ohio town. In the fall of '98, 17-year-old Danny Violette ran away from home and never returned. 11 days later, his body was found in a cornfield with a ligature mark around his neck and a t ... Show More

Ex-NFL player and podcaster Shannon Sharpe is being sued civilly for rape in a $50 million lawsuit, Harvey Weinstein moves to jury selection for his #metoo retrial, the internet is still going crazy over the Dave Smith & Douglas Murray debate, and Tucker Carlson is making a 9/11 ... Show More

How does a teenage goodie-two-shoes grow up to be a convicted criminal? On Committed, a new four-part series from Novara Media, we go behind bars to find out why dozens of young climate activists are risking prison for what they believe in – and why Britain’s courts are sending m ... Show More

In this episode of our daily news podcast, a QLD Supreme Court judge dismisses the defamation action brought against The Australian by the man acquitted of killing Shandee Blackburn. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Austral ... Show More