Behind The Yellow Tape: Recent Episodes
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This is a podcast for those who are interested in the commission of a serious crime, particularly murder, and how they get solved by the Criminal Justice System.And for those interested in the fiction of crime, there is something here for you too.J.A. Lovelock is a Barrister-at-Law, an award-winning author, and an award-winning radio presenter. She has spent many years lecturing, training, examining, and adjudicating in the Criminal Justice and Legal System, but most importantly, she is a crime junkie.Welcome to her Podcast – where she takes you Behind The Yellow Tape.Have you ever been anywhere near a crime scene or seen the images on television and wondered, what happened behind that yellow tape? Oh yes, you have! Because you were curious. Nothing wrong with that. We are curious beings. If we were not, we would never learn – anything.And behind that yellow tape, quite a lot happens, more than a lot goes on…This podcast is part of Podcast Radio’s Original (PRO-Shows) programming.
Former lawyer and crime fiction writer of the vintage age Harriet Steel has been described as a modern-day Agatha Christie. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Harriet to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former lawyer and crime fiction writer of the vintage age Harriet Steel has been described as a modern-day Agatha Christie. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Harriet to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Her comes summer! In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock is joined again by crime fiction author G.B Williams, who shares her recommendations of crime fiction novels that will keep you gripped and entertained all summer long. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the cases of two men called Henry: both accused of killing a widow called Alice: both killings included a hammer but which of the two Henry’s is the real murderer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
GB Williams (Gail), is a writer whose crime novels have been described as complex and fast-paced. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with her in her in her South Wales home, to find out more. And about her demanding cat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Priscilla Biggadyke. Convicted of poisoning her husband to death, in 1868, she made history by becoming the first woman in Britain to be executed within the walls of a prison. But did she murder her husband or were the killers hiding in plain sight? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, and in celebration of Black History Month, J.A. Lovelock revisits her time with detective sergeant Janet Hills MBE of the Metropolitan Police Force, social change maker and performer Ashleigh Nugent and former police officer and dub poet Malachai Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of farmer’s wife Sarah Chesham who was acquitted of the murders of three children including two of her own. Some felt she got away with murder. Then came the death of her young husband under suspicious circumstances. Would Sarah escape the hangman’s noose one more time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers two separate canalside murders in the West Midlands, both involving the untimely deaths of two women. She follows the twists and turns of each, which may leave you wondering ‘whodunit’? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Simon Corbin. Never hidebound by genre, Simon writes across a range of genres. Today he tells her about the folklore of the East Anglian Black Dog and how it made its way into his latest crime-supernatural chiller novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Arthur Major led his wife Ethel a miserable existence. He continually quarrelled with her and constantly threatened to beat her. He deprived her and their young son food. Ethel was so afraid of staying in the house with him as she thought he might kill her. But Arthur is the one who is dead. J.A. Lovelock investigates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Annys and Lisa - who tells her about their relationship with the criminal justice system; the affect it had on them; and how they took advantage of their second chances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Mary Lefley, a Lincolnshire wife accused of killing her husband by lacing his rice pudding supper with arsenic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers, the case of Jack Hewitt, who at the age of 15, was convicted and detained at His Majesty’s Pleasure, for the brutal murder, of a pub landlady. But was he the real killer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fancy some tropical sunshine, mixed with some rum punch and the odd murder? In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Jamaican based crime fiction writer Paula Lennon who tells her about murderous goings-on on this paradise island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Malachi Smith - who tells her about his time working as a police officer in Jamaica and Florida and what made him lay aside his handcuffs and baton to lay down some award-winning dub. Dub poetry that is! Think ‘Dub Poet Society’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock is joined by award-winning Ashleigh Nugent who tells her about his ‘bad boy’ days, his incredible experience of the criminal justice system, both in the UK and in Jamaica, and how he used his talent for rapping and the arts to transform his own life, as well as the life of others, who share similar experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Detective Sergeant Janet Hills of the Metropolitan Police Force to hear about her life on the beat and how she rose through the ranks to become the first female Chairperson of the Metropolitan Black Police Association. And President of the National Black Police Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock takes the case of Grace Duff to its unexpected conclusion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock evaluates the case of Grace Duff, who was considered to be the killer of three members of her family. But was she? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Sandra Hempel tells J.A. Lovelock about an horrendous epidemic that swept the world and killed millions of people. Nobody could understand it, or how it was spreading, and seemingly nobody could stop it… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, discover the cases of John James Thornley and Young Hill. Two men, unconnected in their crimes but had one thing in common: both meeting their fate on a cold December day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Errol Lloyd is a man of many talents. He is a Writer, an Artist, a Sculptor, and has been described as being ‘gifted with an ability to capture likeness, in a range of creative, and engaging ways.’ In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock catches up with him to hear more about his crime novels aimed at pre-teen children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind the Yellow Tape, Lovelock is joined by Cathi Unsworth - who is described as the First Lady of Noir Fiction. Cathi and Lovelock explore the reasons why she uses her novels to give a voice to the victims of crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock checks out a shooting in Croydon and more particularly, a shooting in a public house in Croydon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock asks: how did Gill Gilsenan, a former children’s nanny, find herself in trouble, in paradise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock checks out the case of Elizabeth Jefferies, largely described as a sexual vixen and a Delilah, by those who knew her, or was she just an innocent victim? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind the Yellow Tape, Lovelock is joined by Crime Writers Association multi-award-winning crime fiction author, Martin Edwards. A man of many awards to match his humongous talents. Getting away with murder? Listen to Martin as he tells us how he does it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock takes a look at another doctor who had little regard for his medical oath – first do no harm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First Do No Harm. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock examines the case of Dr Thomas Neil Cream, a doctor who clearly disregarded his medical oath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Annys Darkwa is the Chief Executive Officer at Rhondda Hub for Veterans in Rhondda, south Wales. But before that she had changed the landscape of reintegration for ex-offenders by building links with private sector landlords. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Annys takes Lovelock on a journey from her time in prison to her release, to where she set up Vision Housing for ex-offenders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock discusses the case of Madeleine Smith, a case that scandalised 19th century Scotland and revealed a shocking affair between an upper middle class lady, and a gentleman regarded as being of lower standing, and which this affair ends in his death by poison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices