It's basically first seaon Serial meets schlocky TV murder mystery

June 23, 2016 12:31 PM

Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder [iTunes] is podcast documentary in ten episodes about the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan in 1987. The main producer, Peter Jukes, is a TV screenwriter and political activist who became obsessed with the Morgan murder and has turned that obsession into a podcast. He is not the only one still interested, as the UK government set up the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel to review the case and look into "police handling of the murder investigation" and "connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists" after years of pressure by Morgan's family. So far there have been four episodes, with new ones coming each week.
posted by Kattullus (6 comments total)

One of the main British politicians calling for further inquiries was MeFi's own Tom Watson.
posted by Kattullus at 12:33 PM on June 23, 2016

This shouldn't really be touted (as it is by the Grauniad) as anything similar to Serial. It's all from one angle, and there's no rapport at all between the narrator and the audience, so it's more of a long-winded, in-depth report. A story that deserves to be told, surely, but not anything particularly compelling for its form.
posted by progosk at 12:55 PM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

Loving this podcast! Requested to add it to fanfare so will link once a post is up.
posted by ellieBOA at 1:12 PM on June 23, 2016

OO, I like it.
posted by samthemander at 9:50 PM on June 23, 2016

Fanfare links:
episode 1
episode 2
episode 3
episode 4
posted by ellieBOA at 4:38 AM on June 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

Interesting! Thanks for posting.
posted by josher71 at 8:10 AM on June 24, 2016