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Russell Brand: On Trial

Sky News

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Russell Brand: On Trial is the latest podcast series from Sky News - bringing you in-depth stories from across the UK. Martin Brunt and Katie Spencer are award-winning journalists who have reported on some of the most high profile criminal cases here and abroad. Our episodes from the trial of Russell Brand will focus on key developments in the trial and prioritise expert insight.

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Our previous series:

SEASON 1: The Hunt for the Brinks-Mat Gold

The inside story of Britain's £26m gold heist, the crime that transformed the criminal underworld.

Highly Commended – AIB Awards | Finalist – New York Festivals Radio Awards

SEASON 2: What Happened to Annie?

A Swedish woman is found dead on a Scottish beach. Could a secretive intelligence agency be involved?

Gold – New York Festivals Radio Awards | Gold – AIB Awards

SEASON 3: Polonium and the Piano Player

A radioactive assassination in London. But Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko wasn't the only victim.

Highly Commended – AIB Awards

SEASON 4: StoryCast 21

21 extraordinary personal stories behind the biggest news events of the 21st century.

Gold – New York Festivals Radio Awards | Podcast of the Year – Drum Media Awards

SEASON 5: Patient 11

A mother's three-day stay in psychiatric care becomes a three-year ordeal, exposing a national scandal.

Podcast of the Year – Press Gazette Future of Media Awards | Silver – New York Festivals Radio Awards

SEASON 6: Unreliable Witness

A young woman jailed for fabricating grooming and sexual assault allegations. What drove her to lie, and what secrets remain?

Gold – New York Festivals Radio Awards

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  1. Trailer: The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold

    · 1:57 · Trailer

    In 1983, an armed gang stole £26m in gold bars from a high-security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport. Dubbed the crime of the century by the press, the heist changed the face Britain’s criminal landscape and the…

  2. The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold: PART 1 - The Heist

    · 43 min

    In 1983, members of an armed gang break into the maximum security Brink’s-Mat depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and escape with £26m in gold. As the pressure mounts, Metropolitan Police chiefs turn to a wily,…

  3. The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold: PART 2 - The Sting

    · 49 min

    The trail to recover the £26m in stolen gold from the high security Brink’s-Mat depot in London in 1983 leads undercover detective Ian Brown and a maverick group of Flying Squad officers overseas. Ripping up the rule…

  4. Beyond the hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold

    · 31 min · Bonus

    BONUS EPISODE: Where is the missing gold? How Ian Brown got on the case and why Kent’s 'Bermuda Triangle’ changed Britain’s criminal landscape forever. Sky’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt and producer Rob Mulhern…

  5. Trailer: What happened to Annie?

    · 1:26 · Trailer

    In 2005, the body of 30-year-old Swedish woman, Annie Börjesson, was found on Prestwick beach on Scotland's west coast. The authorities told Annie’s mother her daughter died of suicide. However, in the 14 years since,…

  6. What happened to Annie? PART 1: The body on the beach

    · 23 min

    In December 2005, a dog walker discovers the body of a Swedish woman on Prestwick beach in Ayrshire on Scotland's west coast. Annie Börjesson’s family are told the 30-year-old died by suicide. But something felt wrong.…

  7. What happened to Annie? PART 2: The case for murder?

    · 23 min

    Having learned that a London funeral company notified Scottish Police about disturbing markings on Annie’s body, her mother Guje Börjesson and best friend Maria set off on their own investigation. But some disturbing…

  8. What happened to Annie? PART 3: Testing the evidence

    · 19 min

    As Annie Börjesson's family continue their search for answers, they are forced to consider the somewhat incredible theory, that Annie’s death may in some way be connected to CIA activity at Prestwick Airport. Narrated…

  9. What happened to Annie? PART 4: The CIA and Prestwick

    · 24 min

    Kristina Börjesson, a campaigning US journalist with a similar name to Annie, finds herself at the centre of a story linking Annie’s death with secret CIA flight’s through Prestwick Airport in 2005. Could Annie have…

  10. What happened to Annie? PART 5: The case for suicide?

    · 22 min

    In the case of Annie’s death, how might the police have arrived at their conclusion of suicide? Anyone feeling emotionally distressed or suicidal can call Samaritans for help on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org in…

  11. What happened to Annie? PART 6: The search for answers

    · 23 min

    Was Annie Borjesson murdered or did she die by suicide? As Guje and Maria make one final journey, the investigation attempts to reach a conclusion. Narrated by Rona Dougall Produced by Robert Mulhern…

  12. What happened to Annie? Update: Where we're at

    · 1:51

    A quick update as to where we're at as we explore what happened to 30 year-old Annie Borjesson - a Swedish woman whose body was found on Prestwick beach on Scotland's west coast in 2005. #WhathappenedtoAnnie Email:…

  13. What happened to Annie? BONUS: The fight for key evidence

    · 23 min

    Classified files, the fight for key evidence and family reaction. This bonus episode updates with developments in the case of Annie Börjesson since part 6 of the series. Hosted by Jayne Secker. Produced by Robert…

  14. Introducing...Polonium & the Piano Player

    · 2:05 · Trailer

    Two Russians agents release a miniature nuclear weapon in a 5-star London hotel. But former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is not the only victim? From Sky News StoryCast.

  15. Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 1 - A Nuclear Connection

    · 27 min

    Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is lured by Russian agents to a meeting in a 5-star London hotel. What happens next will change his life, the relationship between the UK and Russia, and suck the hotel's piano player…

  16. Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 2 - The Poisoning

    · 23 min

    A former KGB agent takes us deep into the world of the Russian spies who have just poisoned Alexander Litvinenko and piano player Derek Conlon using a miniature nuclear weapon. (Episode 3 released 27th July). Narrated…

  17. Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 3 - Victims and suspects

    · 29 min

    As one of the biggest police investigations in British history gets underway, Derek Conlon is astonished to learn that he too has been poisoned. But having crossed into the world of espionage, that’s only the beginning…

  18. Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 4 - The Reckoning

    · 33 min

    With relations between London and Moscow deteriorating, Derek Conlon escapes to a new life, but destiny and the nuclear poison appear to have decided his fate. Narrated by Diana Magnay. Written and produced by Robert…

  19. Trailer: Storycast '21

    · 1:38 · S4 E1 · Trailer

    Using the timeframe of the last 21-years, Sky News’ multi-award-winning podcast returns to some of this century's biggest news stories, using the focus of extraordinary personal stories defined by these events. New…

  20. StoryCast '21: EP1/21 Miracle Boy

    · 17 min

    StoryCast '21: On 26th December 2004, one of the deadliest disasters in modern history played out when a Tsunami led to almost 230,000 deaths in south east Asia. Amid the devastation, a Sky News camera crew discover an…

  21. StoryCast '21: EP2/21 The hunt for Raoul Moat

    · 17 min

    StoryCast '21: On 3rd July 2010, Sue Sim, Chief Constable of Northumbria Police, received a call in the middle of the night, to say there’d been a double shooting in a quiet suburb of Newcastle. Specialist police…

  22. StoryCast '21: EP3/21 Marathon Man

    · 16 min

    In Vienna, on October 12, 2019, Kenyan distance runner and decorated Olympian, Eliud Kipchoge, set out to become the first person to run a marathon in under two hours — a challenge deemed impossible by many experts in…

  23. StoryCast '21: EP4/21 Migrant Rescue

    · 16 min

    On January 15, 2016, Brussels based Sky News Correspondent Mark Stone received a desperate text message from Syrian refugee, Bassel Shekhany. Shekhany had recently sought asylum in Germany and explained that his family…

  24. StoryCast '21: EP 5/21 Trapped: The Chile Miners

    · 16 min

    On 5th August 2010, a collapse in the San Jose copper and gold mine in the Atacama Desert, Chile, leaves 33 miners trapped. Among them, Edison Peña, an Elvis impersonator, entombed nearly half-a-mile underground.…

  25. StoryCast ’21: EP 6/21 War Child

    · 18 min

    Shot and left for dead during a military attack on her village in 2017, 12-year-old Rohingya girl, Zoora, escapes through the jungles and waterways of Myanmar, before finding refuge in Bangladesh. But having lost both…

  26. StoryCast '21: EP7/21 A Football Fairy Tale

    · 17 min

    In December 2012, Bradford City, a team that cost less than £10K to assemble, and then in danger of dropping out of the football league, wrote one of the most romantic chapters in the history of British sport when they…

  27. StoryCast '21: EP 8/21 Terror in Brussels Airport

    · 17 min

    Reporters typically arrive to the scene of a major news story after the event. But on March 22, 2016, Sky News National Correspondent, Alex Rossi, was in the Duty Free at Brussels Airport when ISIS terrorists detonated…

  28. StoryCast '21: EP 9/21 The UK Biker Wars

    · 17 min

    On August 12, 2007, mechanic and Hell’s Angel, Gerry Tobin, was shot dead by a rival biker gang as he was riding his motorcycle on the M40 in Warwickshire. The shooting, on a busy Sunday afternoon, was carefully…

  29. StoryCast '21: EP 10/21 On Stage with Amy Winehouse

    · 21 min

    Three days before Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning, she made her final stage appearance alongside her Goddaughter and musical protégée Dionne Bromfield. Now for the first time, Dionne reveals the ‘Aunty Amy’…

  30. StoryCast '21: EP 11/21 The Last Gun: Disarming the IRA

    · 19 min

    In September 2005, the responsibility of securing a lasting peace in Northern Ireland fell on the shoulders of two unlikely men - a Protestant minister and a Catholic priest. Unbeknown to high-ranking security…

  31. StoryCast '21: EP 12/21 The Beirut Blast: Ghassan's story

    · 18 min

    Ghassan Hasrouty wasn’t supposed to be working at Beirut’s port on Tuesday, 4th August 2020. He’d swapped shifts to allow him to attend an upcoming weekend trip with his wife and children. A senior manager, Ghassan had…

  32. StoryCast '21: EP 13/21 9/11 Janice Brooks: Inside the South Tower

    · 37 min

    Saturday September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the US, which resulted in almost 3000 deaths and injured 25,000 people. At around 8 o'clock on the morning of the attacks, a group of al…

  33. StoryCast '21: EP 14/21 Taking Down Saddam

    · 18 min

    From Pauls Valley in Oklahoma, USA, Miles Hill always dreamed of joining the US Marine Corps. Growing up, family life was coloured by US military history - his grandparents served in World War Two and Korea. So when al…

  34. StoryCast ’21: EP 15/21 Tim Peake: Britain’s first spacewalk

    · 17 min

    The UK has a long history of exploration, however by 2016, only one astronaut, Helen Sharman, had travelled to space bearing the colours of the UK flag and no Briton had ever experienced the most demanding and perilous…

  35. StoryCast '21: EP16/21 Escape the Taj Mumbai

    · 21 min

    On the evening of 26 November 2008, Director and photographer Daniela Federici was in the lobby of the five-star Taj Palace hotel, Mumbai, when Islamic terrorists began a deadly 4-day terror attack using automatic…

  36. StoryCast '21: EP 17/21 Batman raids Buckingham Palace

    · 24 min

    In September 2004, Jason Hatch dressed up in a Batman costume and broke into the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The Queen's home is protected by some of the tightest security measures in the world - but they weren't…

  37. StoryCast '21: EP 18/21 The Shooting

    · 20 min

    On 22 July 2005, when Patricia da Silva learned that police marksman had killed a man at Stockwell Underground Station in London, she’d no reason to second-guess news reports describing the deceased as a terrorist. The…

  38. StoryCast '21: EP 19/21 Michael Jackson - The Trial of the century

    · 20 min

    A veteran of movie cameos and music videos, Eddie Moss was one of the most successful Michael Jackson impersonators in the world in 2005, but then he took a job like no other. At the time, Michael Jackson was one of…

  39. StoryCast '21: EP 20/21 The Queen's stuntman

    · 17 min

    On 27 July 2012, Gary Connery pulled up his tights, adjusted his wig, and put on a dress fit for a queen. The London Olympics opening ceremony was about to get underway and the professional stuntman was all set for the…

  40. StoryCast '21: EP 21/21 The Y2K Prison Bug

    · 19 min

    The biggest, and very first story of the year 2000, involved a bug that was expected to impact tens of millions of lives all over the world. But unlike the Covid-19 pandemic of today, The Millennium Bug, or Y2K for…

  41. Introducing: Patient 11

    · 1:24 · Trailer

    Young mother and former GB youth swimmer, Alexis Quinn, agrees to enter NHS England psychiatric care following a family tragedy. She could never imagine that her three-day admission will turn into a three-year ordeal.…

  42. Patient 11: Episode 1 – Locked-up and drugged

    · 19 min · S5 E1

    Following the death of her brother, young mother Alexis Quinn seeks temporary respite in NHS psychiatric care, never imagining that three days, would turn into more than three years, or that her bid to break free would…

  43. Patient 11: Episode 2 – In harm’s way

    · 19 min · S5 E2

    Undiagnosed, legally detained and separated from her daughter for more than a year, Alexis is moved to an all-male psychiatric ward on Christmas Eve, 2013. What happens next will, ultimately, bring her to the attention…

  44. Patient 11: Episode 3 – Escape Plan

    · 20 min · S5 E3

    Enduring long periods in solitary and having descended to the darkest reaches of psychiatric care, Alexis plots an escape, one, that if successful, will take her thousands of miles from England. This series discusses…

  45. Patient 11: Episode 4 – Breaking free

    · 19 min · S5 E4

    A long serving doctor and his partner agree to help Alexis break out of psychiatric care and flee the country, a decision that has the potential to change all their lives. This series discusses rape and sexual assault.…

  46. Unreliable Witness 1: Who is Ellie Williams?

    · 31 min · S6 E1

    Ellie’s family and boss share their worries about her leading up to the infamous Facebook post. Unexplained injuries. Becoming withdrawn. Incessant messages. Harassment on the street. Then she started to go missing…

  47. Unreliable Witness 2: Recipe for a Witch Hunt

    · 33 min · S6 E2

    The fuse has been lit...and with limited information from police or in the news, social media speculation starts fingers pointing. Barrow is about to hit boiling point. Asian businesses are attacked. Individuals are…

  48. Unreliable Witness 3: I’m not a Psychopath

    · 35 min · S6 E3

    After Covid delays, the trial is finally held and Ellie Williams is in the dock. Liz and Jason were among the reporters at court when the extent of her claims were revealed for the first time, shocking the media and…

  49. Unreliable Witness 4: The Witness Who Went Home

    · 34 min · S6 E4

    Ellie has been sentenced to 8 and a half years in prison but questions have been raised about what evidence was presented and left out in court. One potential witness who wasn’t called on says she could have supported…

  50. Unreliable Witness 5: I’m Coming for You

    · 32 min · S6 E5

    It’s revealed Mohammed Ramzan has been facing allegations other than from Ellie Williams. Liz and Jason meet ‘Sarah’ - who says she was groomed as a child in Hull and accuses Mo of being involved in the gang…

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