Drawn To Justice

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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From Gary Glitter to Rose West; Prince Harry to Harold Shipman… courtroom artist Priscilla Coleman has sketched them all, over five decades documenting Britain’s biggest criminal trials. In UK courts, artists can’t sketch inside, so she begins by writing what she sees, combining shorthand notes with a photographic memory technique. Under tight deadlines - and often without even a table - she rushes outside to turn those notes into the courtroom images we recognise from the nightly news. In this broad interview with Olly, Priscilla recalls watching the Wagatha Christie trial; considers what she’s learned from such diverse case studies as Ian Huntley and Jeffrey Archer; and explains why she thinks the legal system needs to change… Image credit: Priscilla Coleman/MB Media —----------------------- Meanwhile, in the Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart joins Olly at the Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace, surrounded by cars worth millions of pounds, to investigate the trend for younger people getting into classic car restoration. Is it a way of avoiding ULEZ charges? Do the tax breaks justify abandoning newer cars altogether? And, assuming you can’t afford a Ferrari or a Bentley, what are the upcoming marques to invest in? The answers may surprise you… —----------------------- Elsewhere, down the Foxhole, Alix Fox - fresh from discovering a kindred spirit in a bondage-themed hair salon - tackles a listener’s anxiety about contracting HIV from a non-consensual encounter. Twenty-five tests, taken over fifteen years, are telling her she doesn’t have HIV… is there any chance they could be wrong? —----------------------- Finally, music this month comes from Ipswich-born rapper Piers James, and his new single 'F.O.E'. —----------------------- NOW… 🎧 LISTEN TO OLLY guesting on Mann-fan Darren Hill’s podcast, The Story Pilgrim - if two middle-aged men walking around Letchworth is your idea of an hour well spent: https://pod.fo/e/328330 🍻 BUY US A BEER. We are only able to make this show thanks to your donations. If you can afford to, pretty PLEASE support our independent podcast here. ✉️ SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK. If you have a challenge for Ollie, a question for Alix, a letter for Olly, or you’d like to share your story on a future edition of the show - fill out our Feedback form here. —----------------------- … and we’ll see you with our tenth birthday episode on 10th October. x Presenter: Olly Mann. Contributors: Priscilla Coleman, Alix Fox, Ollie Peart, Piers James. Producer: Matt Hill. Theme Music: ‘Skies Over Cairo’ by Django Django. Artwork: Podcast Discovery. Copyright: Olly Mann / Rethink Audio 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. It's Jamie Lang here. Now, can I just grab me for just one second to tell you about my podcast, Great Company? It's out every Wednesday and I'm joined by someone I really admire for a great conversation. It's a space to share, to be inspired, to learn, to be moved, to even laugh. There are so many things that I get from it. And there are no gimmicks. It's just me, great guests, and you. You are the
0:21.6	most important person, you, the listener. Listen and subscribe to great company with me, Jamie Lang.
0:26.4	New episodes out every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, man fans, Olly Mann here
0:32.0	with The Modern Man, the monthly magazine show for your ears. Here's what we have in store for you today.
0:39.4	You've got to see their, at least their profile. If they look to the side, that's it. You click it in.
0:46.3	I've seen them. I memorized them. They're going to be in the sketch in that way.
0:51.5	What do you learn sitting 10 feet away from Britain's most notorious criminals?
0:56.9	I meet the UK's preeminent courtroom artist.
1:01.2	Plus, there's still a lot of people who think that they could get it from a mosquito bite
1:05.9	or from feces or urine.
1:08.5	No, no you can't.
1:10.3	Alex Fox unpicks OCD from HIV and
1:14.5	Ollie Pitt hits the road.
1:16.7	That's all to come in this edition of The Modern Man.
1:21.6	But first, your letters and hello to men fan Andy Lang,
1:25.7	our ambassador for Sittingbourne, no less,
1:28.3	who has sent me the following one-liner email,
1:31.5	Olly, cross-aunts from the milkman,
1:34.7	what the fuck I need to investigate bombshell?
1:40.6	Yeah, sorry.
1:41.8	I mean, that obviously was a big thing for you to process. I guess if you've never been accustomed to the idea before, it must blindside you. But both Tom Price and myself did mention in the episode last month, just like it was an ordinary thing in an offhand way, that we get croissants from the milkman. It's a Saturday treat in our house.
2:02.1	It's an institution, as I said.
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