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Strange But True Crime
BBC Local Radio
19 episodes
2 weeks ago

Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.

Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.

Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.

Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.

Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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Episodes (19/19)
Strange But True Crime
Bonus: Pick up a penguin

Former zoo worker Bradley Tomes hatches a plan to steal and sell Humboldt penguins Patrick and Penny from South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria.

Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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2 weeks ago
13 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Poo Dunnit?

Criminal mastermind, James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen, steals a world famous golden toilet worth £4.8m from Blenheim Palace. But who’s going to take it off his hands?

Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Clodagh Stenson Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin

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3 weeks ago
34 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Cannabis Martyr

Gary Youds senses that cannabis drug legalisation is imminent and opens up a cannabis café in Liverpool. The law change doesn’t happen, so police shut it down.

Gary goes to jail, however, he continues to fight for the right to keep his cannabis café open.

Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Mattha Busby. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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1 month ago
30 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Crossbow at the Castle

Jaswant Chail wants to bring down ‘the empire’ and his first act is to harm a British Royal.

Inspired by Star Wars and encouraged by his ‘girlfriend’, he puts his deadly plan into action.

Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Maria Zaccaro. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

This programme contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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1 month ago
28 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Body of Proof

NHS surgeon Neil Hopper was hailed as a hero when he returned to work after having both his legs amputated, however, he hides a dark secret.

His secret? The damage to his legs was self-inflicted.

Get in touch via email: behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Tamsin Melville. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

Details of information and support with body image are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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1 month ago
29 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Bitcoin Bandit

James Parker, from Blackpool in Lancashire stumbles upon a glitch on a cryptocurrency website that generates ‘free’ money.

He makes himself a millionaire, at a cost.

Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jane Downs. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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1 month ago
32 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Act of Tree-son

Farmer Walter Renwick finds himself in the eye of a social media storm after the famous Sycamore Gap tree is felled.

The tree had stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland until September 2023.

Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jane Downs. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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2 months ago
32 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Death Pledge

Mark Christopher lured followers into his 'anti-establishment cult’ by promising to save them money. The movement quickly took a sinister turn.

Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Lewis Adams. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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2 months ago
33 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Danger, High Voltage

A group of workmen dig up roads and pavements to re-connect derelict buildings to the UK power grid.

Local residents soon suspect that all is not as it seems and what‘s discovered is greater than they could have imagined.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jonny Humphries. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Lee Macaulay. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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6 months ago
31 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Sausage Factory Hitman

A man living in the quiet town of Fakenham, Norfolk is warned a hitman has been hired to kill him.

He discovers a story of obsession and revenge.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Robby West. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

For information and support for issues covered in this episode, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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7 months ago
27 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Strangers on the Beach

People living in Newport, Pembrokeshire, start spying on some interesting, wealthy but slightly suspicious visitors.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Matt Murray. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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7 months ago
31 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Swiss Art Heist

£3m of Ming Dynasty treasures vanish from Geneva’s Museum of Far Eastern Art.

After what was a peculiar heist, suspicion falls on the Ahearne brothers who are being watched by police in the UK and Switzerland.

An undercover cop meeting is set in an attempt to recover the stolen artefacts, before they're gone for good.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Thomas Mackintosh. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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7 months ago
33 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Unmasking a Fugitive

Arthur Knight claimed he was an Irish orphan during a police interview in a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Police were tipped off that the patient could actually be American fugitive Nicholas Rossi, who was wanted in Utah to face rape charges.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Meleri Williams. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

To watch on BBC iPlayer - search for: Big Cases ‘Unmasking a Fugitive’.

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7 months ago
34 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Great British Takeoff

The McDonagh’s from Port Talbot in South Wales go out for a steak dinner in Swansea and leave without paying. The restaurant posts to social media to try and track the family down, only to find that this wasn't their first 'dine-and-dash' meal.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Meleri Williams. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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8 months ago
30 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Missing in Action

'Army medic' Tanya Nasir’s CV lands her a prestigious job on the neonatal unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales, but all is not as it seems.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Colette Hume. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editor: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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8 months ago
31 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Treasure Traitors

Two Welsh metal detectorists make an astonishing discovery in a farmer’s field and try to secretly sell the treasure before the authorities track them down.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Martin Jones. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editor: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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8 months ago
36 minutes

Strange But True Crime
Dr Nope

Patrick O’Hara lives a comfortable life with his partner in Newcastle. But a routine visit from a suspicious community nurse is about to put him on life support.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Martin Jones Written and produced by Luke de Costa Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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8 months ago
40 minutes

Strange But True Crime
The Man with the Golden Hun

Carolyn Woods starts fresh in the quaint town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. She falls for the charming Mark Conway, an ‘MI6 spy’.

He says he’s not normal. After moving in to his apartment in Bath she finds out what that really means.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Martin Jones. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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8 months ago
33 minutes

Strange But True Crime
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Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.

Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Written by Luke de Costa. Produced by Luke de Costa and Luke Eldridge. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Commissioning Editors : Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

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Strange But True Crime

Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.

Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.

Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.