“I really looked forward to this and wanted to like it but, while I understand the Beeb wanting to jump on the bandwagon of Serial and the amazing S-Town, this is poor at best.
The structure and storytelling is weak, the music cheesy. The episodes are far too short and a lot of that is taken up with telling us what'll be in the episode, repeating that it's a Five Live podcast, and then telling us what'll be in the next episode. This is incredibly irritating!
Sorry, Five Live, there are a lot of podcasts out there of extremely high quality - whether the beautiful novelistic S-Town or the stunningly produced required listening of The Daily - and yours just doesn't cut the mustard.”Read full review »
Radionoush via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
07/09/17
“This is a dreadful imitation of brilliant true crime podcasts such as Serial and Convicted. No sense of storytelling or pace, it is the retelling of a very well-known case which has already been covered by several books and a TV documentary.
Why an English team should cover such a well-known...”Read full review »
Traveller12 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
07/01/17