Interview #22 | Jeremy Craddock (Journalist and Author)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

I welcome journalist and author Jeremy Craddock to the show in this interview episode.⁣

Jeremy began his career in journalism as a trainee reporter for his hometown newspaper, the weekly Westmorland Gazette.

Since then, he has worked on many newspapers across the north of England, done shifts on the nationals in Manchester, and written features for many magazines.

Jeremy is now a lecturer in multimedia journalism at Manchester Metropolitan University whilst occasionally working as a freelance writer.

Jeremy's first book, 'The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics', was released on May 28, 2021, and is available to purchase here:

The Jigsaw Murders | The History Press

For all things British Murders, please visit my website:

https://www.britishmurders.com/

Intro music:

David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'

https://linktr.ee/davidjohnbradymusic

My recording equipment:

Shure SM7B Vocal Microphone

Cloud Microphone Cloudlifter CL1

Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface

Rode PSA-1 Professional Studio Boom Arm

Recorded using:

Zoom

Edited in:

Hindenberg PRO

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Transcript

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0:50.9	Music listening to British Birds. This will cry. Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to British murders,
0:53.7	the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases and serial killers.
0:58.6	I'm your host Stuart Blues and I have a special guest joining me for this episode.
1:03.2	He's a journalist, an author and lecturer who's very kindly offered to join me today to discuss the 1935 Jigsaw murders, as detailed in his first book,
1:13.2	The Jigsaw Murders, the true story of the Ruxden Killings and the birth of modern forensics.
1:19.2	Please welcome to the show, Jeremy Craddock.
1:22.1	Hi, Stuart. Thank you very much for asking me onto the podcast.
1:26.1	What we do before we start, Jeremy, is I always ask an icebreaker question.
1:29.4	It's nothing too strenuous, nothing to worry about.
1:32.1	All I want to know is, as a journalist, a writer, is there a news story that you wish you would have been involved in reporting?
1:41.1	So it might be something very recent if you're more in the author side than
1:45.3	journalism or it might be something from way back when.
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