Behind the Crimes with Robert Murphy
Robert Murphy
### WINNER 'Outstanding Indie Podcast at the True Crime Awards 2024. ### What makes a criminal? What makes a truly great detective? Award-winning TV crime correspondent Robert Murp...
Episode list
39
June 10, 2025
36 min
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) d...
moreJune 10, 2025
29 min
Nick Harkaway discusses Le Carré, Karla's Choice and the secrets of a great spy novel.
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moreMay 27, 2025
37 min
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 ‘...
moreMay 27, 2025
29 min
Lee Child talks Reacher, his craft, his inspiration and why he's leaving Trump's America
Lee Child on how, when faced with redundancy he turned to writing. Why he’s made it as a multi-million selling author and others haven’t, the secrets of his craft… and why he’s lea...
moreDecember 10, 2024
31 min
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 conclusi...
moreNovember 7, 2024
1 hr 55 min
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 ...
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