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The Open University. The future is open. Gary Young doesn't always go for the obvious story.

Take for instance his work on the US elections.

In the run up to the election in 2016, I went to Muncie, Indiana, which is not a swing

state, but my point really in going there was, I don't know what I'll find there.

That's why I'm going.

I'm Mayf McClendigan, and on this episode of The Tip-off, a long-term project with

heartbreaking consequences. As a journalist for The Guardian, Gary Young has reported from both the

US and the UK. In 2016, he published a book called Another Day in the Death of America.

And that was about all of the kids who'd been shot dead in one day in America and finding out who they were.

It was a masterful piece.

Brilliantly reported, quietly indignant and utterly gripping, read the reviews.

But back in the UK, when he was talking about the book,

the same question kept coming up.

People would say, would you do something similar here?

Now, thankfully, gun crime and mass shootings aren't such an issue in the UK.

So initially, Gary battered away the idea.

But the weeks passed, and he found himself still thinking about that question. And then an idea came to him. What about knife crime? Gary knew

there were reports of teenagers stabbed to death across the UK, so he, maybe he could try and profile each one.

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