Listen Now: I Am Not Nicholas
Bad Batch
Audible
4.5 • 8.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
“I am not Nicholas Rossi!” gasps Arthur Knight through an oxygen mask in March 2022. Recently discharged from a Covid ward in Glasgow, he's in a wheelchair. The police say he’s Nicholas Rossi, suspected of faking his death and wanted for rape in Utah. The story makes headlines globally.
When journalist Jane MacSorley meets Arthur Knight and his wife Miranda, she thinks the police have made a mistake. She embarks on a yearlong investigation, making a unique discovery which changes everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm journalist Jane McSorley, and I'm about to play you a clip from my podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I am not Nicholas. |
| 0:07.0 | I came across this story as I was scrolling the morning news back in January 2022. |
| 0:13.2 | And I immediately thought, this is unbelievable. |
| 0:16.8 | A man had been arrested in a Glasgow COVID ward. |
| 0:20.2 | Police were saying he was a fugitive called Nicholas Rossi, |
| 0:23.8 | who is wanted for rape in Utah. |
| 0:26.3 | But he was claiming to be an Irish orphan called Arthur Knight. |
| 0:30.6 | I thought I really want to look into this and would you believe? |
| 0:33.8 | I ended up following this story for over four and a half years. |
| 0:38.2 | Here's a taster. |
| 0:40.9 | I wanted to ask if you knew the American man that lived here. |
| 0:43.9 | I was seeing this as months and months of work. |
| 0:46.8 | Hello. My name is Jane, Max Sorley. |
| 0:49.4 | Did you have just a few minutes now? |
| 0:51.4 | And it has become practically a year. |
| 0:54.3 | You just don't know what's going to happen when somebody answers that door. |
| 0:59.4 | Oh my God. |
| 1:02.2 | Oh my God. |
| 1:04.4 | He's not dead. |
| 1:05.8 | No way. |
| 1:06.9 | I knew he was still alive. |
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