Best of BBC Podcasts

Zum neuen Jahr habe ich einmal die Hompage des BBC durchforstet, auf der sich ein umfangreiches Angebot an Podcasts findet. Aus diesem habe ich die Podcasts raus gesucht, die von kriminologischem Interesse sind.

Wer das Angebot einmal selbst ansehen möchte kann dies hier tun.

Meine Favoriten, grob thematisch sortiert, sind:

Korruption:

Extremes of Corruption

Part I Sweden

Does Sweden live up to its squeaky clean image? In the first of a two-part series looking at perceptions of state corruption, Pascale Harter investigates whether Sweden – consistently ranked among the least corrupt countries in the world – is quite as it seems.

Part II Somalia

Does Somalia deserve its bad reputation for corruption? In the second of a two-part series, Pascale Harter asks if, after nearly two decades of civil war, is it even fair to talk about corruption in Somalia? Or has it now begun to drive the conflict?

Oiling the Machine – Corruption in Chicago

“We like our crooks, our fast Eddies, and we find them entertaining.” Steve Edwards takes to the mean streets of his hometown Chicago – asking why the Windy City is such a hotbed of corruption.

Europe’s Missing Millions

For Assignment Angus Stickler tracks how money has gone astray across the 27 member states of the European Union and asks why funding continues in regions with proven records of mismanagement and fraud.

Drugs and Power in Kyrgyzstan

The BBC’s Central Asia correspondent, Rayhan Demytrie, explores the relationship between drugs and politics in Kyrgyzstan.

The Art of Match Fixing

A series of recent arrests across Europe has highlighted the growing threat of match-fixing in European football. How are the games rigged? David Goldblatt investigates.

Geheimdienste:

MI6 – A century in the shadows

Part I

Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, marks its centenary this year and BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera talks to senior intelligence figures as well as their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of espionage.

Part II

The second part in this series describes what went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Former MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side.

Part III

In the final part of this series, Sir John Scarlett, the former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service talks about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MI6′s role in the run up to the war in Iraq.

The Mossad

“They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don’t do.” Security Correspondent Gordon Corera re…

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