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BBC Radio 4, BBC Two. Release. 23 October 2021. ( 2021-10-23) Uncanny is a 2021 BBC Radio series created by Danny Robins featuring explorations of the paranormal and supernatural phenomena. The series is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and as a podcast on BBC Sounds. [1] A television version for BBC Two was first broadcast on 13 October 2023.
Child cruelty. Victoria Adjo Climbié (2 November 1991 – 25 February 2000) was an eight-year-old Ivorian girl who was tortured and murdered by her great-aunt and her great-aunt's boyfriend. Her death led to a public inquiry, and produced major changes in child protection policies in the United Kingdom. Born in Abobo, Côte d'Ivoire, Victoria ...
The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February ...
Witness intimidation (2003) Akinwale Oluwafolajimi Oluwatope Arobieke (born 15 July 1961), commonly known as Purple Aki, is a British man known for his criminal convictions for harassment. He has been convicted for touching and measuring the muscles of young men and asking them to squat his body weight. These crimes were originally ruled as ...
The BBC announces major changes to the schedule across the network. While programmes such as Politics Live, Victoria Derbyshire, The Andrew Neil Show, Newswatch, The Travel Show and HARDTalk have been suspended, others such as Newsnight and The Andrew Marr Show will continue with a smaller number of production staff.
In November 2012 Dame Janet Smith called for evidence from people who were the subject of inappropriate sexual conduct by Savile on BBC premises, or on location for the BBC; people who knew of or suspected such conduct; anyone who raised concerns about Savile's conduct within the BBC; people who worked for or with Savile on programmes at the BBC between about 1964 and 2007, or who were ...
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013 [9] and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period. [10] Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by ...
BBC One. Release. 26 February 2018. ( 26 February 2018) –. present. Murder, Mystery and My Family is a BBC One series featuring Sasha Wass KC and Jeremy Dein KC ., [1] [2] which examines historic criminal convictions resulting in the death penalty in order to determine if any of them resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
The Murder Game is a British reality television series that aired on BBC One from March to May 2003. The show was based on the American Fox television show Murder in Small Town X. Though classified as a reality television series, it was more accurately a hybrid of reality TV, game show, and mystery drama. The series was narrated by Rupert Smith.
4 ft 7 in (140 cm) Patrick Warren (b. 1985) and David Spencer (b. 1983) were two English schoolboys who disappeared on 27 December 1996 in the town of Solihull, near Birmingham. Although initially treated by the police as runaways, they are now presumed deceased. [1] Despite a BBC Crimewatch special report on the boys, along with numerous ...