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Murder Junction — 190 episodes
Episode 189 - Otto Penzler, the Mysterious Bookshop and American Mystery Classics
Episode 188 - Terry Deary, from Horrible Histories to Actually, I'm a Corpse
Episode 187 - The Pinnacle, the world's first skyscraper and the best hi-rise books and films
Episode 186 - David Goodman, A Reluctant Spy, Solitary Agents and generational starships
Episode 185 - What happens to a decomposing body? and other extreme cleaning stories by Ben Giles aka 'the human stain remover'
Episode 184 - The true life case of Bollywood actress Jiah Khan
Episode 183 - Daniel Hahn, If This Be Magic and ... was Shakespeare a crime writer?
Episode 182 - A brief history of MI6, how to be a spy and Q's first outing as amateur detective
Episode 181 - Neil Lancaster, a mysterious Scottish grave and nuclear reactor dogs
Episode 180 - Anthony Horowitz, A Deadly Episode, and Asterix v Tintin
Episode 179 - M.J. Arlidge and Alex Khan, Her Last Breath, and the electric shuffleboard boogie
Episode 178 - The Ending Writes Itself, Evelyn Clarke, and cats in hats
Episode 177 - Sabine Durrant, Dead Heat, and the lure of a sun-soaked murder island
Episode 176 - M.K. Oliver, A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage and the real Lalla Rookh
Episode 175 - Tim Weaver, David Raker and The Lost Women
Episode 174 - The Edge of Darkness, the Naga Hills, and the Battle of the Tennis Court
Episode 173 - Louise Welsh, The Cut Up, and the death of Christopher Marlowe
Episode 172 - Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him, and getting cut out of your own show
Episode 171 - A review of 2025, books, TV and ... darts
Episode 170 - The Sweet Fanny Adams murder
Episode 169 - Victoria Goldman and Little Secrets
Episode 168 - Alexandra Benedict and The Christmas Cracker Killer
Episode 167 - The Burning Grounds and the Case of the Tri-State Cemetery Scandal
Episode 166 - Quantum of Menace, Q makes his debut, and the case of the poison-tipped umbrella
Episode 165 - Peter James and The Hawk is Dead, royal glove making, and the worst film ever made
Episode 164 - Patricia Cornwell and Kay Scarpetta, from Postmortem to Sharp Force
Episode 163 - Beth Lewis, The Rush, women in the wilds, and the Yukon Gold Rush
Episode 162 - City of Destruction, The Baker Street Robbery and the Red-Headed League
Episode 161 - Kingsley Pearson, Flat 401, digital psychology and rubber plantations
Episode 160 - Heidi Amsinck, Out of the Dark, and Copenhagen noir
Episode 159 - Nick Harkaway, Karla's Choice, following in John Le Carré's footsteps
Episode 158 - Gordon Brown/Morgan Cry, The Cost, and how to sell ice to the Inuit
Episode 157 - Steph McGovern, Deadline, and Irish dancing
Episode 156 - Capital Crime special, Jón Atli Jónasson, Ruth Mancini, Anna Bailey and festival organisers David Headley and Lizzie Curle
Episode 155 - Mark Billingham, What the Night Brings, 25 years of Tom Thorne, the wobbly dog
Episode 154 - Jeffery Deaver, SOUTH OF NOWHERE, and the 'rewardist'
Episode 153 - Tariq Ashkanani, The Midnight King, The Hinterkaifeck Murders
Episode 152 - The Girl in Cell A, small town secrets, The Axe Murders of Saxtown
Episode 151 - Kelly Mullen, This is Not a Game, and Iowa clown serial killers
Episode 150 - Lucy Atkins, Windmill Hill and pony fiction
Episode 149 - Jeremy Vine, Murder on Line One, Nelson Mandela turns a tap, and Ted Bundy
Episode 148 - Stig Abell, The Burial Place, Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time
Episode 147 - Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty, and the true story behind the classic Presumed Innocent
Episode 146 - The Day of the Roaring, Nina Bhadreshwar, fun facts about Sheffield
Episode 145 - Simon Mayo, Black Tag, the legend of King Dick, and radio's greatest confessions
Episode 144 - The stolen Churchill painting, Jonathan Whitelaw, The Garden Club Murders, and who invented bingo?
Episode 143 - The Unsolved Arctic Mystery of Charles Francis Hall, Tom Hindle and Death in the Arctic, and when airships ruled the skies
Episode 142 - Christmas Killers, Santa's Law Breaking, and a Look Back at 2024
Episode 141 - The Yuba County Five, Rob Parker, and Does Sasquatch have Talons?
Episode 140 - Murder Junction, the Harem Conspiracy and the assassination of Ramesses III
Episode 139 - City of Destruction, the history of murder, history's most prolific murderers
Episode 138 - Erin E. Adams, Jackal, and the 'black horror' genre
Episode 137 - Louise Minchin, Isolation Island, and a frozen foot on Everest
Episode 136 - Shari Lapena, Everest rising, and undefecting defectors.
Episode 135 - T.M. Logan, The Dream Home, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Episode 134 - Gareth Rubin, Holmes & Moriarty, Tête-bêche and Mise en Abyme
Episode 133 - Tom Mead, Cabaret Macabre, locked room mysteries, and the world's second largest diamond
Episode 132 - Rachel Abbott, The Last Time I Saw Him, and poodle-clipping at the Olympics
Episode 131 - Ram Murali, Death in the Air, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Episode 130 - Jack Jordan, Redemption, and existential moral dilemmas
Episode 129 - Karin Slaughter, This Is Why We Lied, Cricket in America
Episode 128 - Michael Robotham and MW Craven, Storm Child and The Mercy Chair, and Aussie Noir
Episode 127 - Jo Callaghan, artificial intelligence policing, and AI Armageddon
Episode 126 - Claire Douglas and David McCloskey and the British Book Awards 2024
Episode 125 - Hunted and Finding Sophie, loans sharks and deadly Deliveroo drivers
Episode 124 -Stig Abell, Death in a Lonely Place, press complaints, and falling satellites
Episode 123 - Erin Young, gold kitchens, banned trousers, and Christianity's oldest religious book to ever go on sale
Episode 122 - Harriet Tyce, A Lesson in Cruelty, Chaucer's unfinished Canterbury tales
Episode 121 - Tony Kent, The Shadow Network, great legal thrillers, and the Old Bailey
Episode 120 - BA Paris, The Guest, and Arabian Noir with Michael Lynes and Alex Shaw
Episode 119 - Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest, dog poop DNA, and cold fusion powered hot baths
Episode 118 - Anna O and Matthew Blake, homicidal sleepwalking, Guy Kennaway and Good Scammer, and the best ever Caribbean books
Episode 117 - Chris Hammer, Scrublands, Funnel-Web Spiders, and New Year Gut Health
Episode 116 - Fenton's ten best novels of 2023, dodgy Xmas parties, and Micky Mouse set free
Episode 115 - Andrew Lycett and The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes - with added Cucumber Sherlock.
Episode 114 - Imran Mahmood and Finding Sophie, author winterwear, and the most famous tea party in fiction
Episode 113 - Susi Holliday, female serial killers, and the meaning of Diwali
Episode 112 - Fiona Cummins, meeting George Clooney, cats' facial expressions, and the Aussie mushroom poisoning
Episode 111 - Suk Pannu, The Kumars at No 10, and the unstoppability of Indian aunties
Episode 110 - Nev March, the Bombay Clocktower deaths, and the secret to happiness in orangutans
Episode 109 - Matthew Parker, One Fine Day in the British Empire, the Booker shortlist, Seven Deadly Bins
Episode 108 - AJ West, greatest ever ghost stories, Big Brother, and the saucy ghost ape of Dorset
Episode 107 - Evil Under the Sun, India's Moon Landing, and Hercule Poirot's bottom
Episode 106 - Simon Toyne, St Hilda's Crime, Bute rap battle, and how to avoid being eaten by a tiger
Episode 105 - Sarah Hilary, Neurodiversity in fiction, a Death of a Lesser God competition, and the invention of the 'blousers'
Episode 104 - Karin Slaughter, remembering Cormac McCarthy, and gruesome author deaths... including death by flying tortoise
Episode 103 - Ambrose Parry, Shakespeare's grammatical legacy, the short-sighted monster of envy, and nude 'blind date'
Episode 102 - Mark Billingham and The Last Dance, Hitler's Nazi playground in Blackpool, and 'Broken Arse-gate'
Episode 101 - MOTIVE festival in Canada, the Joffe Books Prize, Harini Nagendra, and male trees v female trees
Episode 100 - Robert Dugoni, the British Book Awards, and appropriate behaviour at literary festivals
Episode 99 - A special episode recorded live at Malice Domestic, USA debating: Which is better? American or British Crime Writing?
Episode 98 - Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night, and continuing the legacy of iconic characters
Episode 97 - Graham Bartlett, the world's oldest police forces, corrupt cops, and in the footsteps of Napoleon
Episode 96 - Alis Hawkins, A Bitter Remedy, The Rebecca Riots, and history's most infamous poisoners
Episode 95 - John Lincoln Williams, interviewing the Great American Crime Writer, and writers who were terrible people
Episode 94 - Andrew Taylor, Restoration England, Poe in London, and TV crime show 'Ozark'
Episode 93 - Laura Wilson, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, French publishing
Episode 92 - Peter May, crime fiction meets climate change, Friday the 13th
Episode 91 - Helen Fields, The Institution, Prince Andrew's autobiography, and the best biographies of all time
Episode 90 - Lisa Jewell, New Year's resolutions, books to look out for in 2023, and 101 recipes using chickpeas
Episode 89 - Jane Harper, The Dry, Outback Noir, and sexy Christmas underwear
Episode 88 - Peter Hains, wildlife poaching, apartheid protests, and the different forms of meditation
Episode 87 - Kate Mosse and Greg Mosse, historical fiction, the Cathars, climate grief, women pioneers, the Matilda Effect, and Granny Rosie
Episode 86 - Kellye Garrett, why women should rule the world, and strange laws in small town America
Episode 85 - Claire McGowan, David Beckler, The Booker Prize, and Ireland's 'vanishing triangle' disappearances
Episode 84 - Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, medieval owl cures, and the Declaration of Arbroath
Episode 83 - Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key, the Queue, and professional mourners
Episode 82 - The Queen's passing, Anthony McGowan and Dogs of the Deadlands, canine philosophy and Fenton's Faves
Episode 81 - Rev. Richard Coles, Murder at Evensong, St. Guinefort the greyhound, the meaning of modern faith, and the energy crisis.
Episode 80 - Nadine Matheson, intimacy co-ordinators, hamsters in space, and fun facts about Grease
Episode 79 - Mark Wightman, a potted history of Singapore, Agatha Christie and the Old Swan, and the origins of the Singapore Sling
Episode 78 - Luca Veste, Victoria Selman, the meaning of Scouse, and plagiarising C.S. Lewis
Episode 77 - Imran Mahmood and Ayisha Malik, barristers on strike, the illusion of free will, and a world that just shuts up
Episode 76 - David Fennell and serial killer thrillers, Jaipur Lit Fest and Borders Book Fest, and the man with no opposable thumbs
Episode 75 - National Crime Reading Month, Sir Ian Rankin, Vanessa O'Loughlin/Sam Blake, the Platty Joobs and fun facts about the Queen
Episode 74 - Stephanie Merritt & S.J. Parris, Storm and Giordano Bruno, and the world's worst teachers
Episode 73 - Lord Jeffrey Archer, the Domesday Book, and the village of Great Snoring
Episode 72 - British Book Awards special with Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Abigail Dean ... and Mahatma Gandhi
Episode 71 - David Baldacci and Dream Town, orang-utan blues, and the slap heard around the world
Episode 70 - The British Book Awards shortlist, Janice Hallett and The Appeal, The Dying Day paperback, and epistolary novels
Episode 69 - Maxim Jakubowski, The Perfect Crime, the "bad review", and 100 Shades of Brown
Episode 68 - Anna Mazzola and The Clockwork Girl, war in Ukraine, and pole-dancing geckoes
Episode 67 - Adele Parks and Alex Preston, Both of You and Winchelsea; from domestic noir to re-assessing the image of smugglers.
Episode 66 - Dean Koontz and Quicksilver, dude ranches, dogs in literature, and a canine quiz
Episode 65 - Craig Robertson and Amy McCulloch, cleaning up after dead bodies and climbing into the "death zone"
Episode 64 - A look back at 2021, a look forward to 2022, and a crime-writer's teapot
Episode 63 - Antti Tuomainen and Finnish noir, Fenton's Faves, and the world pillow fighting championships
Episode 62 - Stuart Turton and Seven Deaths, Imran Mahmood and BBC's You Don't Know Me, and where does the word 'tomfoolery' come from?
Episode 61 - Mikhail Sen and an actor's life, The Shadows of Men, and the Hollywood great quotes quiz
Episode 60 - Charles Cumming and spy fiction, Bay Tales, and how to reduce your carbon footprint
Episode 59 - Clare Whitfield, Jack the Ripper, the PG Tips tea chimps, and awkward plurals
Episode 58 - Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den, ancient Pompeii, French literature and Abir's French junket
Episode 57 - Tim Marshall and The Power of Geography, the best ever literary Scottish fiction, and a Bloody Scotland round-up
Episode 56 - Ann Cleeves & The Heron's Cry, Bloody Scotland live podcast, and wearing sliders and socks in public places
Episode 55 - Orenda Books special with Karen Sullivan, Awais Khan, Will Carver and Lilja Sigurdardottir
Episode 54 - S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears, a new Writing Crime Fiction course, and events that shouldn't be at the Olympics
Episode 53 - Mark Billingham and Steve Cavanagh, Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, and the meaning of altruism
Episode 52 - The Dying Day, racism in sports films, and Fenton's Favourites
Episode 51 - Amit Dhand, the horrors of Partition, Tariq Ashkanani, and the Capital Crime New Voices
Episode 50 - Alex Michaelides, The Maidens, Imran Mahmood, I Know What I Saw, and judges with a sense of humour
Episode 49 - Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Will Shaw, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, and why Truman Capote was jealous of Harper Lee
Episode 48 - Richard Osman & The Thursday Murder Club, Rahul Raina & How to Kidnap the Rich, Ajay Chowdhury & The Waiter
Episode 47 - British Book Awards special with Lee Child & Andrew Child, Ian Rankin, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Joy Ellis
Episode 46 - Mike Gayle, The British Book Awards and Count Binface
Episode 45 - Felicia Yap, Godzilla v King Kong, a race report bombshell, and talking apes
Episode 44 - Dean Koontz, The Other Emily, the biggest selling authors of all time, and a brief history of the Bible
Episode 43 - Saima Mir, The Khan, royal shenanigans, Craig Sisterson, Australian & NZ crime fiction
Episode 42 - Chris Brookmyre, weird titles, the celeb writer phenomenon, and sci-fi film trivia
Episode 41 - Val McDermid, busted boilers, the Tebbit test, and the Great Scottish-India quiz-off
Episode 40 - Ausma Zehanat Khan, the Bosnian conflict, human rights law, and the strange animal facts quiz
Episode 39 - Frank Zafiro, American crime, Idi Amin and other coups, and ruined sleep cycles
Episode 38 - New Year 2021, Putting 2020 on trial, Calendars from around the world and New Years resolutions,
Episode 37 - Sadsacks Assemble, Books and TV of the year, and Brown Christmas shenanigans
Episode 36 - Martin Edwards and Golden Age Crime Fiction, Great Christmas Novels, and the Great Craisin Controversy
Episode 35 - Ragnar Jónasson, Icelandic crime fiction, fun facts about Iceland, and political chicanery on screen
Episode 34 - Dan Smith, a political scandal from the sixties, How to Tame a Lion, and a tribute to Sean Connery
Episode 33 - C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man, In the Heat of the Night, and the greatest ever movie quotes
Episode 32 - Antonia Hodgson, Georgian smut, whisky investing, and the curious relationship between authors and alcohol
Episode 31 - Lucy Foley and The Guest List, David Headley and Goldsboro Books, This Green and Pleasant Land
Episode 30 - Aziz Ibrahim & The Stone Roses, BBC radio broadcaster Amanny Mohamed, Farhana Shaikh… and our Desert Island Discs
Episode 29 - Tracy Fenton, The Book Club, great historical fiction, Waverley, Wolf Hall, & Shogun
Episode 28 - Sanjida Kay, Naked Lunch, how to catch bees, and the world's worst poet
Episode 27 - Career Criminals at Theakston Old Peculier Festival, Literary festivals, Mud Festivals, Phallic Festivals
Episode 26 - Gillian McAllister, assault in fiction, The Accused, Lolita on trial, and a review of The Luminaries.
Episode 25 - Mark Edwards, writing great screenplays, Trumbo, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects and Seven.
Episode 24 - Imogen Robertson, more civil rights literature, fun facts about Martin Luther King Jnr, diversity in YA fiction
Episode 23 - Mike Craven, The Curator, race protests, books about race, and facts about the civil rights movement that you didn't know.
Episode 22 - Antony Johnston, mental health awareness week, books featuring mental illness, and Sigmund Freud on trial
Episode 21 - Mary Paulson-Ellis, books with dual timeline narratives, Ramadan and Hemingway, farewell to Irfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor
Episode 20 - Stephanie Scott, books about long walks, John Lennon on trial, Alex Hawley, online bookfest
Episode 19 - Ruth Tross - an editor's guide to publishing, alternate history fiction, books that foretold the future
Episode 18 - Will Dean, post apocalyptic pandemic fiction, how to survive working at home
Episode 17 - Kia Abdullah, political thrillers, John le Carre, and turmeric - the cure for all ills
Episode 16 - Tony Kent, dodgy boxers, the broken legal system, virtue signalling, and democracy on trial.
Episode 15 - Amer Anwar, diversity initiatives on trial, Black Frankenstein, diversity in romance fiction
Episode 14 - Onjali Rauf, children's fiction from around the world, Lewis Carroll's jabberwocky words
Episode 13 - Barry Forshaw, BBC’s new Dracula adaptation, gothic fiction, and Count Duckula.
Episode 12 - Natasha Pulley, New Year's resolutions and strange New Year's customs, and how not to use the phrase 'deus ex machina'
Episode 11 - Dorothy Koomson, Christmas movies on trial, 'Brown Christmas', 2019 lowlights, Area 51 and a strange banana
Episode 10 - Nikesh Shukla, Great Literary Themes with Dorothy Koomson, Your name in a novel competition, Bollywood battle: Mum v Alex
Episode 9 - Luan Goldie, Brownface on trial, Death in the East, Asia-set classics, the secrets to writing and pitching a new TV series.
Episode 8 - Chris Whitaker, Introverts v Extroverts, a review of "Quiet" by Susan Cain, and how Bollywood took over the world
Episode 7 - Patrick Gale, the CWA Dagger awards, weird Stephen King facts, fairytales on trial, and the greatest ever horror films
Episode 6 - Elly Griffiths, Agatha Christie's disappearance, a fat bear contest, the Booker Prize, A Very Expensive Poison and book blurbs
Episode 5 - Bobby Seagull, who invented Zero, Bloody Scotland, Robert Burns, Capital Crime, Roald Dahl on trial and Quickreads
Episode 4 - Helen Jukes, how to keep bees, Bond on trial, visiting Jane Austen, "Blinded by the Light" review, and how to write screenplays
Episode 3 - Clare Mackintosh, judging literary prizes, the Bradford Lit Fest, Escape Rooms, and a novel use for the hula
Episode 2 - Ruth Ware, Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Festival, Rudyard Kipling on trial, and a play called Sweat
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