1. When Amy Met Joe

Gangster

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The last thing mental health nurse Amy expected to encounter when she took a job at Lindholme prison was someone offering romance.

Then she met Joe - cheeky, brimming with charisma and a career criminal.

But surely she knows better than to listen to his relentless attempts to charm her….

Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Ivor Manley Executive producer: Joe Kent

A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.
0:13.3	But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?
0:19.2	I remember having this very sharp thought
0:21.7	that what you do right now, this is it.
0:24.3	This defines your life.
0:26.0	I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.
0:28.3	I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.
0:33.9	Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.
0:37.0	Listen on BBC Sounds. You're about to listen
0:40.0	to Gangster Presents, sex, drugs and cell block parties. Episodes will be released weekly
0:47.2	wherever you get your podcasts, but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the full series right now,
0:53.6	first on BBC Sounds.
0:58.6	I'm Amber Hack, and just to let you know, before you listen, this series contains some very
1:03.8	strong language, and it deals with adult themes, including drugs and descriptions of violence.
1:10.4	I'll be honest, at times it's shocked me.
1:13.6	But this is also a story about family, loyalty, love, and the risks we take for it.
1:26.8	Okay. It's 8.50am.
1:33.4	Officers have just entered Cell 102 on G-Wing, Lindholm Prison.
1:40.9	I'm watching the footage from their body cam.
1:44.1	It's a simple room, off white walls,
1:46.8	pale green shelves that are cluttered with items, a pack of cereal, a bottle of squash,
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