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Twenty Minute Topic Episode 70: Assisted Dying
Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watkins discuss the topic of assisted dying in a way that is both sensitive and forthright.
This is a complic...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 69: The Royal Family In Crisis
The Princess of Wales has revealed in a video message that in January, she underwent major abdominal surgery. While the surgery was successful, tests...
Truth of Lies Episode 8
Time To Reflect
Where is Julie and how is Hollie over two decades on from Michael’s death and how does she feel about the MOD and remembr...
Truth of Lies Episode 7
Blood Money
No amount of money - big or small - equates or compensates for Michael’s death.
Hear how the MOD admit negligence - but...
Truth of Lies Episode 6
Julie makes the trip to Sierra Leone to see where Michael was killed. Suddenly, and only now, do the Ministry of Defence begin to admit liability for...
Truth of Lies Episode 5
Just over one year on from Michael’s death, it is time for the inquest. Will Julie finally get any answers?
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Truth of Lies Episode 4
Michael is laid to rest. But unrest is laid bare.
The funeral is cancelled, then re-arranged. The guest list is vetted….A comedy of errors adds...
Truth of Lies Episode 3
Days later, Michael’s body is returned to the UK. His widow Julie is lied to about which airbase he is coming into. Then, as his body goes missing for...
Truth of Lies Episode 2
December 2001. Michael has been home on leave. It is the only time he will see his newborn daughter Hollie.
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Truth of Lies Episode 1
It is 0630, 28 January 2002. There is a knock on the door. Michael is dead.
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On 27 January 2002, Corporal Michael Phillips was killed in Sierra Leone. He had just returned there after a brief visit home before Christmas on pate...
The Rathband Tapes Episode 14 - Loose Ends, Damaged Goods - One Last Tango
Last in the series.
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 13 - I Fought The Law And The Law Won
The inquest: Cover up or covering yourself? Hear how Darren and Tony had to ask to give statements. Then litigation. How on earth did the judge exoner...
The Rathband Tapes Episode 12 - Three Funerals, Several Stories
Why were there three funerals? Because there were at least three agendas.
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 11 - Leap Year's Day
The end is nigh. David melts down on Twitter, returns home from Australia and takes his own life.
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 10 - Two Trips One Story
Two trips to Oz. Who is Lisa French? Did Darren see that the end was nigh?
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 9 - 15 Minutes of Fame
What happens when your 15 minutes of fame is up? 'They build you up and knock you down' - we have all heard that phrase.
We analyse the w...
The Rathband Tapes Episode 8 - Guilty
The trial is over. Awaiting the verdict has been agony. 'I have a lifetime ahead. They have a lifetime to reflect.'
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 7 - Chicken Wraps; A Badger's Hat
The trial. Spoiler alert: contains comedy.
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 6 - Two Twins One Story
Growing up in Staffordshire. The Cornetto moment. Struggles to get into the police. Meeting Kath and moving to the Northeast. And dear Naomi...
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The Rathband Tapes Episode 5 - What Only The Blind Can See
After two weeks in hospital, it is time for David to go home. Amongst his visitors: Craig, with the Control Room confession.
Hosted by To...
The Rathband Tapes Episode 4 - Senses Working Overtime
The new physical reality. David is blind.
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 3 - Manhunt
Two stories on a collision course. A manhunt is underway in Rothbury, Northumberland.
Meanwhile, on a hospital bed in Newcastle upon Tyn...
The Rathband Tapes Episode 2 - The Night IS In Question
Serious questions begin about what really happened on 3 and 4 July 2010.
Hosted by Tony Horne.
The Rathband Tapes Episode 1 - The Night In Question
British policeman David Rathband is gunned down in Newcastle upon Tyne.
This is his story. But where does it start?
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The Rathband Tapes - Trailer
For more than a decade, conversations between the late David Rathband and his ghostwriter Tony Horne recorded during the writing of the best-selling T...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 68: How's Brexit Going?
It has now been more than three years since the United Kingdom formally left the European Union. Since then, the UK, and the world, has gone through a...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 67: Britain's Energy Crisis
In this specially-extended Christmas edition of Twenty Minute Topic, Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watkins look into Britain’s energy crisis.
We’r...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 66: Truss and Sunak - What Next for Britain?
WHAT ON EARTH is going on with British politics right now? Liz Truss lasted 44 days as Prime Minister, during which time her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng...
A Tribute to Her Majesty
For more than 70 years, the Queen was our country’s Head of State, and she was also Head of the Commonwealth, a body of nations that clearly meant a h...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 65: Is University Worth It?
Going to university and getting a degree isn’t the golden ticket to getting on in life that it once was.
Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watk...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 64: The Platinum Jubilee
THE PLATINUM Jubilee has arrived, and we're in for a four-day weekend of fun, thanksgiving and reflection.
In this podcast, Marcus Stead...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 63: Ukraine - What Happens Next?
Since the last edition of the podcast, Vladimir Putin has carried out actions in Ukraine that go against all forms of decency and civil behaviour.
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 62: Ukraine - Will Putin Invade?
The situation on the Russia – Ukraine border is becoming more serious by the day. There are now 130,000 Russian troops on the border, but what’s it re...
The Dead Good Podcast with Tony Horne Episode 3: Meat Loaf
Tony Horne returns with episode three of The Dead Good Podcast, with a look back on the life of Meat Loaf, who has died at the age of 74.
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A Tribute to James Brokenshire with Tony Horne Part 2
Tony Horne returns with further memories and reflections on his friend of more than 30 years, James Brokenshire MP.
James served as North...
A Tribute to James Brokenshire with Tony Horne
FOR THE last four years, Tony Horne, writer and broadcaster, has reflected on how tragic he finds the process when individuals pass away, from the spe...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 61: Afghanistan - What's It All About?
AFTER nearly twenty years, British and American military involvement in Afghanistan is finally at an end. But why was our military ever sent there in...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 60: Woke
THE WORD ‘woke’ seems to be everywhere nowadays. How did we get from a situation where unpleasant racial slurs were rightly made socially unacceptable...
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 59: Boris Johnson - Leader Or Liability?
In this edition, Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watkins focus on Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Serious mistakes have undoubtedly been made during h...