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Here is the very very late part 2 of Burn Wild. Apologies for the lateness, I explain this and some developments with TCF in the intro.
Here are the links to some of the films we mention in the next episode:
If a tree falls: A story of the Earth Liberation Front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQoi0DoOKM
The Pipe: Documentary about the Shell to Sea protests in Co Mayo, Ireland
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Silence would be treason: The prison writings of Ken Saro-Wewa
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TCF previously did a review of the podcast Burn Wild, but we've come back with a much more detailed look at eco-terrorism and eco-action. This is the first part of what will be a three part series.
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This wee we have some updates for you on three cases we have previously covered. West Cork, Sycamore Gap and the trial of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. At the end we've got the original episodes of West Cork and Sycamore Gap.
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Finishing off our trilogy of programmes we take James Ellroy's true crime memoire My Dark Places and Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer and compare the two asking what they tell us about masculinity and trauma.
Links are for Feast of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jruf3jWqbtI&t=39s the James Ellroy documentary. As well as...
Darren mcGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwdmv1X4dOA&t=50sSupport the show
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Part two of our look at James Ellroy's memoire My Dark Places and comparing it to Netflix hit Baby Reindeer looks at Baby Reindeer, and some of the many questions around it. Next week there will be apart three where we compare the two.
Here is a Youtube link to the documentary mentioned in this episode Feast of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jruf3jWqbtI&t=35sSupport the show
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Mairi thinks about the true crime cannon and presents The Red Parts, and Jane: A Muder, as contenders. One is prose and one is poetry, and although poetry is not a type of writing often found in true crime the melding of the two togehter produce some wonderful writing.
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We wanted to compare the James Ellroy memoire My Dark Places with Netflix hit Baby Reindeer. We realised quickly though there was too much to say for one episode so here is part one, and we will release part two on Baby Reindeer soon. To get part two early and ad free then please check out the patreon.
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Mairi delves into the story of Meghan Bahri, who run a successful charity for children with serious illnes and uncovers what different societal forces converge in Facticious Illness Disorder.
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Mairi and Phil take some time to delve into the case of Elaine O'Hara who was murdered by Graeme Dwyer, and ask if some of the tropes around the case are really ture?
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Mairi looks at the BBC podcast about eco terrorism in the 1990s as time and attitudes have moved on are those acts of arson as bad as they seemed at the time?
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With a ruling from the High Court about Shamima Begum's British citizenship Mairi updates us on what has happened, and what may happen next. Including the original episode 108 The Crime and Punishment of Shamima Begum.
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This week Mairi delves into The Hunt for the Silver Killer. A true crime book which investigates is the murder/suicides of retiered couples in north west England is really the work of a serial killer.
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In the UK the case the Constance Martin, an aristocrat and her partner Mark Gordon, for the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria has been gripping the nation. Mairi and Phill discuss what we do and don't know about what happened, and what could come up, at the begining stages of the trial.
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Phil and Mairi are back discussing the popular Netflix documentary American Nightmare, and also discussing what the death of Ian Bailey means for the Sophie Toscan-du Plantier case.
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Mairi thinks about Belle Gibson, and Australian woman who conned the world into thinking she has cancer, and reflects on why so many young women fall for her type of schtik.
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Hurkle Durkle is an old Scots word that means to stay in a warm bed way past the time to get up. This winter Mairi and Phill are hurkelling and durkelling and chatting about the recent ITV hit Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, otherwise known as The Horizon Scandle.
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