Behind the Crimes with Robert Murphy Podcast
1) Simon McCleave: From screenplays to the Snowdonia Killings
Subscribe for FREE: robertmurphy.substack.comThe creator of The Snowdonia Killings talks true crime, pivoting from screenplays to novels (via teaching) and how his own publishing company has proved fa...Show More
2) Mark Gatiss: The True Crime of the Bookish era
Mark Gatiss’s new crime drama is set in 1946 London: a city recovering from the Blitz, when gangs ran wild and gun crime was rife.Bookish is inspired by both true crimes and the Golden Age of Detecti...Show More
3) The true crimes which inspired The Golden Age of Murder
The Detection Club, established in 1930, is the world’s first social network for crime writers. It’s founder fathers and mothers included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Anthony Berkeley.Its cur...Show More
4) John Le Carré - taking on the spymaster's Smiley series: Nick Harkaway
How do you take on one of the biggest literature legacies of the past half-century? That’s what Nick Harkaway was asked to do after his father, David Cornwell (aka John Le Carré) died in 2020.Karla’s ...Show More
5) Lee Child: Jack Reacher, my true crime inspiration, my writing craft and why I've left America
# Subscribe for free: robertmurphy.substack.com #Recorded at CrimeFest in Bristol, England, May 2025Lee Child on how his TV career helped him write, his favourite authors, how he ‘writes the fast stuf...Show More
6) Drug Wars
Neil Woods spent fourteen years as an undercover police officer, helping dismantle some of Britain’s most notorious drug gangs.Yet after his biggest victory he came to the conclusion: was it worth it?...Show More
7) Lord Lucan, his nannies and a fifty-year mystery. A three-part podcast.
On November 7th 1974, a children’s nanny Sandra Rivett was murdered at the home of the family in which she was in service.It was the Lucan family.Lord Lucan - her suspected killer - may have been targ...Show More
8) Deep Undercover: Neil Woods
Neil Woods spent years as an undercover police officer. He says his techniques in included ‘weaponising empathy’ - using the good nature of society’s most vulnerable.And as Britain was being hit by a ...Show More
9) In Cold Blood - A century of Truman Capote
Subscribe for free: robertmurphy.substack.comIn Cold Blood started as a study in how a heartbreaking killing impacted a Mid-West community. But Truman Capote got sucked into the story.At first, the fo...Show More
10) The crime writer who made £1 million from Nicole Kidman
Subscribe for free at Robertmurphy.substack.comMaxim Jakobowski has sold millions of books. But you may not have heard of him.After releasing a book aged 16, he moved into publishing and worked with P...Show More