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- 🇬🇧GB · True Crime#1435K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · True Crime#1715K to 30K
- 🇳🇿NZ · True Crime#833K to 10K
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6.8K to 37K🎙 Weekly cadence·25 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
14K to 73K🇬🇧41%🇦🇺41%🇳🇿14%+1 more - Active Followers
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4.0K to 22K
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The Great Twitter Hack
Jun 10, 2026
34m 58s
An announcement
Jun 9, 2026
1m 37s
Sorry, We Missed You
Feb 11, 2026
33m 50s
The Stream Thief
Feb 4, 2026
21m 56s
It's All Gravy, Baby
Jan 28, 2026
31m 16s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/10/26 | The Great Twitter Hack | Young hackers infiltrate the social media accounts of the world’s biggest celebrities and spark internet-wide chaos. This is the story of the 2020 Twitter hack.For tickets to our live show in Sheffield go to crossedwires.live/fringe.Get in touch with us behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed Guest: Joe Tidy Producer: Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin | 34m 58s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | An announcement | Rima has some exciting news! For tickets, go to crossedwires.live/fringe.Get in touch with the show at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 1m 37s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 | Sorry, We Missed You | A criminal gang in Cardiff set up an elaborate scheme to import cannabis from the United States.When their insider is arrested, the gang leader has to scramble to keep his illegal operation alive.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Matt Murray. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 33m 50s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | The Stream Thief | Stephen Woodward builds a million-pound business selling access to illegally streamed TV channels. He’s digitally savvy, however, it’s not long before he starts leaving the police clues about his cyber crimes.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 21m 56s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | It's All Gravy, Baby | Michelle Mills and her ex-Royal Marine lover, Geraint Berry, want to continue their romantic affair. The lovers plot how to remove Michelle’s husband, Christopher, from the picture and cover their tracks.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Meleri Williams Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin | 31m 16s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | No Crime for Old Men | Gary Hardy, Ronald Knowles and Steven Houston are approaching pension age, but they refuse to settle into their retirement years. Instead, they combine their skills and hatch a deadly plan to make and supply deadly weapons to British gangs. But after a life of crime, is this one job too many for the old boys?Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Jeremy Ball Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin | 29m 43s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | Baby Barter | Herbert Smith, the ‘Handcuff King’, and his girlfriend, Lottie Roberts, are circus performers who secretly buy and sell babies for profit in Edwardian Britain. But they’ll need more than a disappearing act to fight the families who come after them.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Richard Tisdale Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin | 26m 42s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | My Criminal Romance | HMP Kirkham Prison governor Kerri Pegg and drug dealing gang boss Anthony Saunderson strike up a dangerous relationship.If they're found out, it will have life changing consequences for Pegg.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Mat Trewern. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 33m 55s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | Bonus: Pick up a penguin | Former zoo worker Bradley Tomes hatches a plan to steal and sell Humboldt penguins Patrick and Penny from South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 13m 58s | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | Poo Dunnit? | Criminal mastermind, James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen, steals a world famous golden toilet worth £4.8m from Blenheim Palace. But who’s going to take it off his hands?Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Clodagh Stenson Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin | 34m 03s | ||||||
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| 12/10/25 | The Cannabis Martyr | Gary Youds senses that cannabis drug legalisation is imminent and opens up a cannabis café in Liverpool. The law change doesn’t happen, so police shut it down. Gary goes to jail, however, he continues to fight for the right to keep his cannabis café open.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Mattha Busby. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 30m 44s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | Crossbow at the Castle | Jaswant Chail wants to bring down ‘the empire’ and his first act is to harm a British Royal.Inspired by Star Wars and encouraged by his ‘girlfriend’, he puts his deadly plan into action.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Maria Zaccaro. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.This programme contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. | 28m 02s | ||||||
| 11/26/25 | Body of Proof | NHS surgeon Neil Hopper was hailed as a hero when he returned to work after having both his legs amputated, however, he hides a dark secret.His secret? The damage to his legs was self-inflicted.Get in touch via email: behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Tamsin Melville. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.Details of information and support with body image are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline. | 29m 41s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | The Bitcoin Bandit | James Parker, from Blackpool in Lancashire stumbles upon a glitch on a cryptocurrency website that generates ‘free’ money.He makes himself a millionaire, at a cost.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jane Downs. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 32m 47s | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | Act of Tree-son | Farmer Walter Renwick finds himself in the eye of a social media storm after the famous Sycamore Gap tree is felled.The tree had stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland until September 2023.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jane Downs. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 32m 46s | ||||||
| 11/5/25 | Death Pledge | Mark Christopher lured followers into his 'anti-establishment cult’ by promising to save them money. The movement quickly took a sinister turn.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Lewis Adams. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 33m 53s | ||||||
| 6/24/25 | Danger, High Voltage | A group of workmen dig up roads and pavements to re-connect derelict buildings to the UK power grid. Local residents soon suspect that all is not as it seems and what‘s discovered is greater than they could have imagined.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jonny Humphries. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Lee Macaulay. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 31m 44s | ||||||
| 6/10/25 | The Sausage Factory Hitman | A man living in the quiet town of Fakenham, Norfolk is warned a hitman has been hired to kill him.He discovers a story of obsession and revenge.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Robby West. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.For information and support for issues covered in this episode, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline. | 27m 37s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 | Strangers on the Beach | People living in Newport, Pembrokeshire, start spying on some interesting, wealthy but slightly suspicious visitors. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Matt Murray. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 31m 21s | ||||||
| 5/27/25 | The Swiss Art Heist | £3m of Ming Dynasty treasures vanish from Geneva’s Museum of Far Eastern Art. After what was a peculiar heist, suspicion falls on the Ahearne brothers who are being watched by police in the UK and Switzerland.An undercover cop meeting is set in an attempt to recover the stolen artefacts, before they're gone for good.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Thomas Mackintosh. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 33m 23s | ||||||
| 5/20/25 | Unmasking a Fugitive | Arthur Knight claimed he was an Irish orphan during a police interview in a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.The Police were tipped off that the patient could actually be American fugitive Nicholas Rossi, who was wanted in Utah to face rape charges.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Steven Godden. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.To watch on BBC iPlayer - search for: Big Cases ‘Unmasking a Fugitive’. | 34m 58s | ||||||
| 5/13/25 | The Great British Takeoff | The McDonagh’s from Port Talbot in South Wales go out for a steak dinner in Swansea and leave without paying. The restaurant posts to social media to try and track the family down, only to find that this wasn't their first 'dine-and-dash' meal. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Meleri Williams. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 30m 17s | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | Missing in Action | 'Army medic' Tanya Nasir’s CV lands her a prestigious job on the neonatal unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales, but all is not as it seems. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Colette Hume. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editor: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 31m 37s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | The Treasure Traitors | Two Welsh metal detectorists make an astonishing discovery in a farmer’s field and try to secretly sell the treasure before the authorities track them down. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Nicola Goodwin. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editor: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 36m 28s | ||||||
| 4/22/25 | Dr Nope | Patrick O’Hara lives a comfortable life with his partner in Newcastle. But a routine visit from a suspicious community nurse is about to put him on life support. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Peter Harris. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin. | 40m 57s | ||||||
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4 placements across 4 markets.