Murder Junction
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Episode 179 - M.J. Arlidge and Alex Khan, Her Last Breath, and the electric shuffleboard boogie
29 mins; March 29, 2026
Episode 178 - The Ending Writes Itself, Evelyn Clarke, and cats in hats
27 mins; March 22, 2026
Episode 177 - Sabine Durrant, Dead Heat, and the lure of a sun-soaked murder island
28 mins; March 15, 2026
Episode 176 - M.K. Oliver, A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage and the real Lalla Rookh
32 mins; March 08, 2026
Episode 175 - Tim Weaver, David Raker and The Lost Women
29 mins; February 22, 2026
Episode 174 - The Edge of Darkness, the Naga Hills, and the Battle of the Tennis Court
28 mins; February 08, 2026
Episode 173 - Louise Welsh, The Cut Up, and the death of Christopher Marlowe
30 mins; January 25, 2026
Episode 172 - Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him, and getting cut out of your own show
22 mins; January 11, 2026
Episode 171 - A review of 2025, books, TV and ... darts
36 mins; December 28, 2025
Episode 170 - The Sweet Fanny Adams murder
26 mins; December 14, 2025
Episode 169 - Victoria Goldman and Little Secrets
27 mins; November 30, 2025
Episode 168 - Alexandra Benedict and The Christmas Cracker Killer
32 mins; November 16, 2025
Episode 167 - The Burning Grounds and the Case of the Tri-State Cemetery Scandal
33 mins; November 02, 2025
Episode 166 - Quantum of Menace, Q makes his debut, and the case of the poison-tipped umbrella
32 mins; October 19, 2025
Episode 165 - Peter James and The Hawk is Dead, royal glove making, and the worst film ever made
30 mins; October 12, 2025
Episode 164 - Patricia Cornwell and Kay Scarpetta, from Postmortem to Sharp Force
30 mins; October 05, 2025
Episode 163 - Beth Lewis, The Rush, women in the wilds, and the Yukon Gold Rush
23 mins; September 21, 2025
Episode 162 - City of Destruction, The Baker Street Robbery and the Red-Headed League
21 mins; September 07, 2025
Episode 161 - Kingsley Pearson, Flat 401, digital psychology and rubber plantations
26 mins; August 25, 2025
Episode 160 - Heidi Amsinck, Out of the Dark, and Copenhagen noir
30 mins; August 11, 2025
Episode 159 - Nick Harkaway, Karla's Choice, following in John Le Carré's footsteps
31 mins; July 27, 2025
Episode 158 - Gordon Brown/Morgan Cry, The Cost, and how to sell ice to the Inuit
33 mins; July 13, 2025
Episode 157 - Steph McGovern, Deadline, and Irish dancing
34 mins; June 29, 2025
Episode 156 - Capital Crime special, Jón Atli Jónasson, Ruth Mancini, Anna Bailey and festival organisers David Headley and Lizzie Curle
46 mins; June 15, 2025
Episode 155 - Mark Billingham, What the Night Brings, 25 years of Tom Thorne, the wobbly dog
34 mins; June 01, 2025
Episode 154 - Jeffery Deaver, SOUTH OF NOWHERE, and the 'rewardist'
41 mins; May 18, 2025
Episode 153 - Tariq Ashkanani, The Midnight King, The Hinterkaifeck Murders
34 mins; May 11, 2025
Episode 152 - The Girl in Cell A, small town secrets, The Axe Murders of Saxtown
31 mins; April 27, 2025
Episode 151 - Kelly Mullen, This is Not a Game, and Iowa clown serial killers
29 mins; April 20, 2025
Episode 150 - Lucy Atkins, Windmill Hill and pony fiction
31 mins; April 13, 2025
Episode 149 - Jeremy Vine, Murder on Line One, Nelson Mandela turns a tap, and Ted Bundy
32 mins; March 31, 2025
Episode 148 - Stig Abell, The Burial Place, Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time
30 mins; March 23, 2025
Episode 147 - Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty, and the true story behind the classic Presumed Innocent
33 mins; March 09, 2025
Episode 146 - The Day of the Roaring, Nina Bhadreshwar, fun facts about Sheffield
24 mins; February 23, 2025
Episode 145 - Simon Mayo, Black Tag, the legend of King Dick, and radio's greatest confessions
32 mins; February 09, 2025
Episode 144 - The stolen Churchill painting, Jonathan Whitelaw, The Garden Club Murders, and who invented bingo?
34 mins; January 27, 2025
Episode 143 - The Unsolved Arctic Mystery of Charles Francis Hall, Tom Hindle and Death in the Arctic, and when airships ruled the skies
33 mins; January 12, 2025
Episode 142 - Christmas Killers, Santa's Law Breaking, and a Look Back at 2024
26 mins; December 29, 2024
Episode 141 - The Yuba County Five, Rob Parker, and Does Sasquatch have Talons?
30 mins; December 15, 2024
Episode 140 - Murder Junction, the Harem Conspiracy and the assassination of Ramesses III
28 mins; December 01, 2024
Episode 139 - City of Destruction, the history of murder, history's most prolific murderers
30 mins; November 17, 2024
Episode 138 - Erin E. Adams, Jackal, and the 'black horror' genre
30 mins; November 03, 2024
Episode 137 - Louise Minchin, Isolation Island, and a frozen foot on Everest
33 mins; October 20, 2024
Episode 136 - Shari Lapena, Everest rising, and undefecting defectors.
30 mins; October 06, 2024
Episode 135 - T.M. Logan, The Dream Home, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
32 mins; September 22, 2024
Episode 134 - Gareth Rubin, Holmes & Moriarty, Tête-bêche and Mise en Abyme
31 mins; September 08, 2024
Episode 133 - Tom Mead, Cabaret Macabre, locked room mysteries, and the world's second largest diamond
34 mins; August 25, 2024
Episode 132 - Rachel Abbott, The Last Time I Saw Him, and poodle-clipping at the Olympics
35 mins; August 11, 2024
Episode 131 - Ram Murali, Death in the Air, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
29 mins; July 28, 2024
Episode 130 - Jack Jordan, Redemption, and existential moral dilemmas
29 mins; July 14, 2024
Episode 129 - Karin Slaughter, This Is Why We Lied, Cricket in America
29 mins; June 30, 2024
Episode 128 - Michael Robotham and MW Craven, Storm Child and The Mercy Chair, and Aussie Noir
40 mins; June 16, 2024
Episode 127 - Jo Callaghan, artificial intelligence policing, and AI Armageddon
33 mins; June 02, 2024
Episode 126 - Claire Douglas and David McCloskey and the British Book Awards 2024
34 mins; May 19, 2024
Episode 125 - Hunted and Finding Sophie, loans sharks and deadly Deliveroo drivers
44 mins; May 05, 2024
Episode 124 -Stig Abell, Death in a Lonely Place, press complaints, and falling satellites
37 mins; April 21, 2024
Episode 123 - Erin Young, gold kitchens, banned trousers, and Christianity's oldest religious book to ever go on sale
45 mins; April 07, 2024
Episode 122 - Harriet Tyce, A Lesson in Cruelty, Chaucer's unfinished Canterbury tales
35 mins; March 24, 2024
Episode 121 - Tony Kent, The Shadow Network, great legal thrillers, and the Old Bailey
31 mins; March 10, 2024
Episode 120 - BA Paris, The Guest, and Arabian Noir with Michael Lynes and Alex Shaw
52 mins; February 25, 2024
Episode 119 - Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest, dog poop DNA, and cold fusion powered hot baths
36 mins; February 11, 2024
Episode 118 - Anna O and Matthew Blake, homicidal sleepwalking, Guy Kennaway and Good Scammer, and the best ever Caribbean books
51 mins; January 28, 2024
Episode 117 - Chris Hammer, Scrublands, Funnel-Web Spiders, and New Year Gut Health
45 mins; January 14, 2024
Episode 116 - Fenton's ten best novels of 2023, dodgy Xmas parties, and Micky Mouse set free
33 mins; December 31, 2023
Episode 115 - Andrew Lycett and The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes - with added Cucumber Sherlock.
33 mins; December 17, 2023
Episode 114 - Imran Mahmood and Finding Sophie, author winterwear, and the most famous tea party in fiction
30 mins; December 03, 2023
Episode 113 - Susi Holliday, female serial killers, and the meaning of Diwali
30 mins; November 19, 2023
Episode 112 - Fiona Cummins, meeting George Clooney, cats' facial expressions, and the Aussie mushroom poisoning
32 mins; November 05, 2023
Episode 111 - Suk Pannu, The Kumars at No 10, and the unstoppability of Indian aunties
30 mins; October 22, 2023
Episode 110 - Nev March, the Bombay Clocktower deaths, and the secret to happiness in orangutans
41 mins; October 08, 2023
Episode 109 - Matthew Parker, One Fine Day in the British Empire, the Booker shortlist, Seven Deadly Bins
59 mins; September 24, 2023
Episode 108 - AJ West, greatest ever ghost stories, Big Brother, and the saucy ghost ape of Dorset
46 mins; September 10, 2023
Episode 107 - Evil Under the Sun, India's Moon Landing, and Hercule Poirot's bottom
38 mins; August 27, 2023
Episode 106 - Simon Toyne, St Hilda's Crime, Bute rap battle, and how to avoid being eaten by a tiger
42 mins; August 13, 2023
Episode 105 - Sarah Hilary, Neurodiversity in fiction, a Death of a Lesser God competition, and the invention of the 'blousers'
53 mins; July 30, 2023
Episode 104 - Karin Slaughter, remembering Cormac McCarthy, and gruesome author deaths... including death by flying tortoise
47 mins; July 16, 2023
Episode 103 - Ambrose Parry, Shakespeare's grammatical legacy, the short-sighted monster of envy, and nude 'blind date'
46 mins; July 02, 2023
Episode 102 - Mark Billingham and The Last Dance, Hitler's Nazi playground in Blackpool, and 'Broken Arse-gate'
31 mins; June 18, 2023
Episode 101 - MOTIVE festival in Canada, the Joffe Books Prize, Harini Nagendra, and male trees v female trees
27 mins; June 05, 2023
Episode 100 - Robert Dugoni, the British Book Awards, and appropriate behaviour at literary festivals
53 mins; May 21, 2023
Episode 99 - A special episode recorded live at Malice Domestic, USA debating: Which is better? American or British Crime Writing?
51 mins; May 07, 2023
Episode 98 - Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night, and continuing the legacy of iconic characters
47 mins; April 23, 2023
Episode 97 - Graham Bartlett, the world's oldest police forces, corrupt cops, and in the footsteps of Napoleon
46 mins; April 09, 2023
Episode 96 - Alis Hawkins, A Bitter Remedy, The Rebecca Riots, and history's most infamous poisoners
44 mins; March 26, 2023
Episode 95 - John Lincoln Williams, interviewing the Great American Crime Writer, and writers who were terrible people
41 mins; March 12, 2023
Episode 94 - Andrew Taylor, Restoration England, Poe in London, and TV crime show 'Ozark'
53 mins; February 26, 2023
Episode 93 - Laura Wilson, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, French publishing
38 mins; February 12, 2023
Episode 92 - Peter May, crime fiction meets climate change, Friday the 13th
41 mins; January 29, 2023
Episode 91 - Helen Fields, The Institution, Prince Andrew's autobiography, and the best biographies of all time
45 mins; January 15, 2023
Episode 90 - Lisa Jewell, New Year's resolutions, books to look out for in 2023, and 101 recipes using chickpeas
48 mins; January 01, 2023
Episode 89 - Jane Harper, The Dry, Outback Noir, and sexy Christmas underwear
43 mins; December 18, 2022
Episode 88 - Peter Hains, wildlife poaching, apartheid protests, and the different forms of meditation
40 mins; December 04, 2022
Episode 87 - Kate Mosse and Greg Mosse, historical fiction, the Cathars, climate grief, women pioneers, the Matilda Effect, and Granny Rosie
52 mins; November 20, 2022
Episode 86 - Kellye Garrett, why women should rule the world, and strange laws in small town America
41 mins; November 06, 2022
Episode 85 - Claire McGowan, David Beckler, The Booker Prize, and Ireland's 'vanishing triangle' disappearances
39 mins; October 23, 2022
Episode 84 - Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, medieval owl cures, and the Declaration of Arbroath
30 mins; October 09, 2022
Episode 83 - Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key, the Queue, and professional mourners
40 mins; September 25, 2022
Episode 82 - The Queen's passing, Anthony McGowan and Dogs of the Deadlands, canine philosophy and Fenton's Faves
60 hours 36 mins; September 11, 2022
Episode 81 - Rev. Richard Coles, Murder at Evensong, St. Guinefort the greyhound, the meaning of modern faith, and the energy crisis.
56 mins; August 28, 2022
Episode 80 - Nadine Matheson, intimacy co-ordinators, hamsters in space, and fun facts about Grease
34 mins; August 14, 2022