107. Gatwick Blackmailer

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In TV dramas, criminal profilers solve crimes that the police cannot. Presenters Dr Julia Shaw and Amber Haque look at a real life case. An anonymous blackmailer threatens acid attacks unless his demands for pornographic photos of female airline staff at Gatwick are met. The police are stumped. So, they call in a professor of criminal psychology. What he says astounds them. Further information: Julia refers in this episode to the following study: Analysing criminal profiling validity: Underlying problems and future directions. Rita Alexandra Brilha Ribeiro, Cristina Branca Bento de Matos Soeiro. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Volume 74, January–February 2021, 101670 Cracker is a 1990s ITV drama series about a fictional criminal profiler. The series was produced by Granada Television, written by Jimmy McGovern and starred Robbie Coltraine. In August 2024, the series was available on ITVX. Jimmy McGovern appears in this June 2021 episode of Bad People, talking about another one of his crime dramas: Time. The Real Cracker was a documentary series produced by Oxford Films. It was inspired by the TV drama Cracker. A book based on the series was published in 2002 by Channel 4 Books: The Real Cracker: Investigating the Criminal Mind by Stephen Cook. Producer: Innes Bowen Editor: Philip Sellars Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey Researcher: Rhiannon Cobb Mix Engineer: John Scott Recording Studio: 88Hertz Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins Assistant Commissioners: Adam Eland and Sarah Green

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0:21.2	I suppose she's in the water now. What is she holding?
0:23.8	And Giovanni's room by James Baldwin.
0:26.4	Do you have a mistress? I asked him.
0:28.5	I don't seem to be very interested in women right now.
0:31.5	Listen, only on BBC Sounds.
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0:40.9	This episode of Bad People contains details which some people might find disturbing.
0:45.0	It includes discussion of sexualized acts and graphic details of threats of violence against women.
0:50.0	Julia? Julia, Amber, we are.
0:55.0	Amber, we are back.
0:57.0	We are.
0:58.0	Nice to see you.
0:59.0	Good to see you.
1:00.0	Even though we talk quite a lot.
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1:03.0	I feel like I didn't do too shabby of a job on the last show.
1:07.0	What do you reckon for my first crack at things?
1:09.0	I think you did a great job.
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