S11 Ep6: Geoffrey: True crime TV and books

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Geoffrey discusses the Channel 5 (in the UK) true crime series Soham: The Murder Of Holly & Jessica, which left rather a bad taste in his mouth. He also discusses the Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix, and Inside the Criminal Mind. Also on the docket: books on the Old Bailey.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Geoffrey Wansall. I'm not here with my daughter Molly today. She's busy as ever,
0:24.6	looking after her many clients, and I'm, as usual, sitting in front of my laptop, trying to talk to you all again.
0:35.4	I must say it is wonderful that we have so many devoted listeners.
0:40.4	It's absolutely tremendous. And thank you so much for your support and your suggestions and
0:47.3	ideas and just general goodwill. It makes an enormous difference to me and I know it does to Molly. So thank you,
0:57.7	thank you again. This has been, I think this is our fifth anniversary. We started in October,
1:06.2	believe it or not, 2017. Goodness me. Yeah, what a shock. I never imagined imagined I'd still be doing this. But there you go. I still seem to be one way and another.
1:19.5	It's kind of relentlessly. But it's very flattering and it's a wonderful treat to talk to the wonderful blood-t, without whom my life would be much less interesting.
1:33.3	So today, this first podcast I'm doing on my own of this section, I'm going to talk about a few things that really interest me about true crime at the moment.
1:44.7	First one, and I'm afraid this is for the UK listeners,
1:48.8	there has been a drama playing on television this week on Channel 5 called Maxine,
1:56.4	a built-around Maxine car, which those of you who remember the case was, of course, the girl in the
2:04.2	Soam murder case. Ian Huntley killed Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells on that August day in 2002,
2:16.6	in Soham, a small village in Cambridgeshire, disposed of the bodies.
2:22.1	And Carr gave him an alibi.
2:26.7	In fact, the alibi fell apart in the end.
2:29.9	But the drama, which is three parts, one hour each or forty six minutes of actual drama time, because of the advertisements.
2:43.0	It worried me. I'm not alone in being worried about it.
2:48.2	A lot of the commentary at, particularly the critics and some of the viewers,
2:54.8	were very, very critical of it because they said or felt that it humanised Huntley, whom they truly
3:04.5	believe is a monster.
3:11.5	I think it was probably a poor decision to make the drama in the first place.
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