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Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

The Accused: The Case of Alice Sebold & Anthony Broadwater

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Seeing Red

True Crime

4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dive into the harrowing true story behind author Alice Sebold’s 1981 rape and the decades-later revelation of a devastating miscarriage of justice. Sebold, best known for her memoir Lucky and the novel The Lovely Bones, identified Anthony Broadwater as her attacker, leading to his conviction in 1982. However, Broadwater always maintained his innocence. This episode examines the long-term impact on both Sebold and Broadwater, raising critical questions about memory, systemic racism, and the justice system’s failures — and what it means to confront truth years after a crime. The excellent ITV drama Mark mentions in this episode, Undeniable, is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. The series can also be purchased on Apple TV. If you would like access to exclusive bonus content and to support us on Patreon, you can find us here: w⁠⁠⁠⁠ww.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you would like to GIFT a Patreon membership to a special someone, head to www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast/gift If you would like to buy us a coffee (or wine!), hit the link below: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get your merch here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠ Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears - check her work out at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag⁠⁠⁠⁠ Co-Producer: Ade Parsley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

...you know,

0:08.0

... Hello and welcome to seeing Red, a true find podcast.

0:36.7

I'm Mark and my dog just sneezed.

0:38.9

Oh.

0:39.4

We'll just carry on.

0:40.9

Hello, Bertie.

0:42.7

Bless you, Bertie.

0:43.8

And I'm Bethan, so welcome to the show.

0:46.8

Two Men and a Dog?

0:48.1

Was that a show back in the olden days?

0:51.1

No, I don't think it was.

0:52.8

And I don't think you're a man.

0:54.6

No. Although you did want think you're a man. No.

0:54.9

No.

0:55.5

Although you did once have that massive penis, that massive tobeerone cock.

1:01.0

Oh dear.

1:02.2

Honestly, Beth and that was just, yeah, that was really something quite special when you turned

1:06.6

around and exposed yourself in that.

1:08.7

It really stayed with me.

1:10.0

It was a massive to go.

1:11.4

Do you know what most people had to ask about that whole scenario when we told our patrons was

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