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The Secret Life of Prisons tells the hidden stories from behind bars. Presenter Paula Harriott is Head of Prisoner Engagement for the Prison Reform Trust, having spent time behind bars. Alon...
As the Sentencing Act 2026 receives royal assent, Phil and Paula take to the stage at Conway Hall in London as part of the Clinks annual con...
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. His father and brother spent time behind bars and he wrote a memoir, The Life Inside , about his ca...
Every year the radio industry gathers for the Radio Festival in London. The event, run by a wonderful organisation called the Radio Academy...
In 2006, Phil Maguire OBE left his job at the BBC to work in prisons. He joined a small group of committed, inspirational people to found a...
Beatrice Auty was released from prison last year and has since become a Longford Scholar, pursuing her academic interest in criminology. Bef...
The Audio Production Awards take place every year to honour the very best in radio and podcast production in the UK. They're run by Audio UK...
If you would like to support the Prison Radio Association, visit prison.radio/biggive and your donation will be doubled! Faye Dunn and Toni...
Drug Recovery Wings are specialist units in prisons that work to help people dealing with addictions as part of their prison sentences. Ash...
The Longford Lecture is a centrepiece event of the criminal justice sector's year. Run by the Longford Trust, a charity that provides opport...
Andy Aitchison has been photographing prisons for more than 20 years. He selects five of his favourite photographs of prisons and talks to u...
In the summer of 2023, 17 year-old Charlie Cosser went to an organised house party in a small village in West Sussex and never came home. A...
Sarah was released from prison after spending 16 years behind bars as part of a life sentence. She was released to an approved premises two...
Ian Watkins , the disgraced former front man of the rock band Lostprophets, died in HMP Wakefield on Saturday 11 October. Two men have been...
When Laura found herself in HMP Eastwood Park serving the latest of a string of prison terms, something magical happened when she met Isie P...
Shahid Amin was serving a long sentence in HMP Grendon when he began studying criminology. This came after teenage years in which being enga...
One month into Frank Stedman's prison sentence, he lost his brother to suicide. Unable to attend the funeral, the prison put Frank into segr...
We love receiving your questions, thoughts and comments. Email us at podcasts@prison.radio . In this final episode before we take a summer b...
In 2014, probation services in England and Wales underwent the most radical shake-up for generations in a part-privatisation process known a...
James Batchelor is an educator, musician, film-maker and producer. He spent a time behind bars where he became a presenter for National Pris...
Tamar spent a short period of time in HMP Holloway, a women's prison in North London, in 2016. Months later, the prison was closed for good....
Zak Addae-Kodua is one half of Zak and Jules, the presenting team behind the award-winning Life After Prison podcast. He has experienced sev...
Ten years ago, David Kendall decided to put on an entire festival of arts and literature inside HMP Lewes. This was the birth of Penned Up ,...
On the day David Gauke, the former Justice Secretary, publishes his long-awaited Independent Sentencing Review , we get analysis from the jo...
Nigel Bromage was a prominent member of several far-right groups, including British Movement and Combat 18, for 20 years. During that time,...
Cherie Blair KC became a barrister in 1976 and went on to be a county court and crown court judge. In 2024 she was appointed to the Leadersh...
Andy West is the author of The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free , which is currently being adapted into a BBC...
Two days before the 2025 London Marathon, a very special half marathon took place behind the walls of HMP Brixton in aid of the Prison Refor...
We love to hear your thoughts, your views and your questions. To contact the show, please email podcasts@prison.radio . In this week's episo...
This week we've got two guests who, for very different reasons, have spent time in a lot of different prisons. We asked them to compare note...
Chris Tchaikovsky was a founder of the charity Women in Prison, the charity that campaigns on behalf of women in the criminal justice system...
Peter Lewis served a prison sentence for receiving a corrupt payment. Shortly after his release, during the pandemic, he applied for a volun...
When Mo went to prison hundreds of miles from home, his older sister would visit him but he didn't see his mum in person until he was more t...
Alice Dawnay founded the charity Switchback in 2008, which supports young Londoners to find a way out of the justice system. She's now part...
In 2013, Khamran Uddin wrote a letter to the man he had violently assaulted in a random attack on a deserted railway platform. The victim wa...
David Gauke is the former Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Hertfordshire, the former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord...
Richie Makepeace was just trying to keep his head down and get through his prison sentence in HMP Brixton when he was offered a job in the p...
Spice, a name for a group of synthetic drugs that have gripped prisons over the past decade, are said by researchers at Middlesex University...
Scout Tzofiya Bolton is a poet, activist, radio producer and the author of The Mad Art of Doing Time . She went to prison in 2023 where she...
Tim Owen KC is a criminal barrister who has sat as a Deputy High Court Judge. He is a co-host of Double Jeopardy: The Law and Politics Podca...
Mickey Dehara is a screenwriter who has frequently collaborated with the director Guy Richie, including playing a starring role in the film...
Jamie Bennett is is the author of a new book which looks at the challenges of managing prisons. He is Prison Contracts Group Director at His...
In November 2024, Janey Starling from the charity Level Up, called out the presenter of LBC's breakfast show Nick Ferrari live on air for hi...
Greg Eskridge was released from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in California, formerly known as San Quentin state prison, on 23 July 2024...
In November the Sentencing Academy, a charity that aims to improve public understanding of sentencing in England and Wales, released a piece...
Sarah Moore was exposed to the most dangerous situations imaginable during a seven-year period in which she disappeared from her family's li...
The Prison Radio Association is a charity that runs National Prison Radio, the world’s first national radio station for people serving priso...
Sean Henry received multiple prison terms through his early adult life. But receiving a long sentence for a serious offence when his son was...
On Monday 11 November 2024, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe delivered the annual Longford Lecture at Church House in Westminster. Nazanin was impr...
Tyler Voase was released from prison in the summer of 2024. He first went into jail in 2022 weighing over 40 stone, and with the support of...
Matthew Torbitt is a writer and broadcaster. A period of homelessness as a young man led to involvement in crime, for which he received a se...