Ep. 68 The deep blue
A tragedy in the English Channel got Aaron Walawalkar thinking. How could it be that people were dying, their boats sinking in one of the bu...
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Ep. 67 Moths to a flame
The horizon near Ali’s house is filled with flames. Owen Pinnell and Jess Kelly, from BBC Arabic, can't stop thinking of them. And back in t...
Ep.66 What a scoop!
You will have heard about the BBC Newnight interview with Prince Andrew - it was a seismic scoop that reverberated around the world. But how...
Ep. 65 Closed ranks
Hannah Al-Othman sits in her car in front of a stranger’s house. Inside is a man who might be responsible for a woman’s death. A man whose n...
Introducing... Silenced
We're between series of The Tip Off now - and planning lots more great episodes for you, but while we do, why not take a listen to Silenced....
Ep. 64 In the pipeline
Rob Cribb had an idea for an investigation, an idea so big it was almost impossible to envisage how the work could be done. But then, it cam...
Ep. 63 Listen
Who gets to tell the stories we hear? On this episode we hear from citizen journalists - two women with lived experience of homelessness and...
Ep. 62 Butternutters
How do you investigate a group that is shrouded in secrecy by its very nature? This is the story of how two journalists - Patrick Lohmann an...
Ep. 61 Beyond the Horizon
Where do you start in unravelling one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the UK system? For Nick Wallis it all began with a tweet. Th...
Ep. 60 From the archive: Web of death - part 1
Hi Tip Off Listeners - We are working hard on new episodes for you, and have some more great stories coming up this series. But this week we...
Ep. 59 Unidentified flying objects
One December day, Samira Shackle found herself in the midst of an unfolding, global story. Drones had been spotted flying around Gatwick Air...
Ep. 58: Where justice ends
Annabel Hennessy was reporting on another case when she heard a name that would change everything. A lawyer, expert in First Nations’ rights...
Ep. 57 Evicted in a pandemic
What do you do if the data you need doesn’t exist? When the pandemic hit I couldn’t stop wondering about how the impact of lockdown, sicknes...
Ep. 56 Exposing Savile - Part Two
Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones think they have everything they need to finally expose Jimmy Savile’s abhorrent crimes. But as their transmiss...
Ep. 55 Exposing Savile - Part One
Meirion Jones has had a strange feeling about Jimmy Savile for some time and he thinks he may have a way to probe further. When Savile dies,...
Ep. 54 How it gets built
Zak Garner-Purkis is sat in a fastfood restaurant - his attention laser-focused on the men gathering across the road. He is trying to work o...
Coming soon - Series 9 of The Tip Off
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OUT NOW: Maeve's book - No Fixed Abode - in paperback
Creator and host of The Tip Off, Maeve McClenaghan has written a book, and it is now out in paperback. No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among...
Introducing…Cheat!
Cheats: we love to hate them. But in this climate of fast news, short attention spans, 280 characters, do we ever get the full picture? Chea...
Ep. 53 Black and white data
Sarah Turnnidge started her journalism career at local papers so it was there she first encountered press releases from police forces. But o...
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