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
July 22, 2025
30 min
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 Go...
moreJuly 8, 2025
36 min
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 Anth...
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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moreJune 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...
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...
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