103. Bad People x People Who Knew Me

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Daniella Isaacs, the creator of the new BBC Sounds audio drama, People Who Knew Me, joins Dr Julia Shaw in a conversation about faking one’s own death and using the terrorist attacks in America on September 11th 2001 to do so. We ask, who fakes their own death and why? And how easy is it to pull it off? Warning: This episode contains references to the 9/11 attacks and also suicide and drowning. CREDITS Presenter: Dr Julia Shaw Producer: Simona Rata Assistant Producer: Hannah Ward Editors: Anna Lacey and Richard Collings Music: Matt Chandler Production Coordinator: Jonathan Harris Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:07.0	In this new BBC Sounds podcast, we investigate a 90s legal scandal that shook Scotland.
0:14.3	As court cases collapsed, rumors spread that secretly gay legal figures were involved in
0:19.5	a conspiracy.
0:20.7	The rumor was that there was this cabal of gay judges and senior legal people who would
0:27.3	arrange to get these guys off.
0:29.5	A judge resigned, a police station was robbed, and journalists were arrested.
0:35.1	This was a question of the integrity of Scottish justice.
0:39.0	And at the centre of the scandal was a talented charismatic lawyer with a dark secret.
0:43.9	Bob Henderson, Bob Henderson, Bob Henderson, Bob Henderson, Bob Henderson.
0:48.4	He caused so much damage, not just to me, but to loads of people.
0:52.0	That's shiny Bob, the devil's advocate.
0:55.2	Lesson now on BBC Sounds, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.2	Daniela, have you ever fantasised about running away from your life?
1:10.5	Daily.
1:11.5	Oh, what would you do?
1:12.8	Where would you go?
1:13.8	No, not daily.
1:14.8	Just every now and then if I, you know, I'm a bit bored, I think about being on a beach
1:18.8	in the middle of nowhere.
1:19.8	Like escape fantasies.
1:20.8	Escape fantasy, please.
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