Yarn 24 / Season 5 / March 2, 2022 / 28 min
It is Day 6 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I talk to an old friend of the podcast, our tour guide from the Chernobyl episode. He agreed to give an update on what he’s been up to since we last saw each other. He talks about the Russian takeover of the Chernobyl exclusion zone and what it's like to be staying put in Kyiv during the invasion.
"I had no contact with this man. All I ever said was hello to him. It's stalking. And it builds and builds."
I wanted to see inside this secretive world and get a sense of what it feels like to serve. I talked to 7 former jurors about their 7 separate trials. I also talked to a practicing criminal law barrister for his thoughts on the jury system. We’ll explore the selection process, the characters in the courtroom and the atmosphere in the jury deliberation room. We’ll also do a deep dive into a few cases and hear them told from a juror's perspective in their own words.
We speak to Dr. Francis O’Connor, an expert on lone actor radicalisation. Dr. O’Connor and his colleagues have been funded by the EU Commission to research lone actor attacks. They have collected what they think is the largest dataset of lone actor attacks and attackers in the western world, dating from 1990 until the present.
