Inside Forensic Science
By Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science
The podcast was commissioned by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee. LRCFS works to disrupt conventional thinking, embrace new opportunities, and drive innovation that enables reliable science to be used in the delivery of justice.
The series is narrated by Pennie Stuart.
Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio production. The podcast was funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
The series is narrated by Pennie Stuart.
Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio production. The podcast was funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
Latest episode
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Series 3: The Verdict
What did our experts and the jury of the day decide? How can people make a decision when experts disagree and who is able to be an expert in criminal cases? This episode covers all of the details and also answers the question of what happened to Scot… -
Series 3: The Experiments
Content warning: graphic descriptions of injury and death involving a gun and mention of suicide. Accident or murder? To determine which is the most likely explanation for Hambrough’s death, experts in both 1893 and the present carry out experiments… -
Series 3: The Motive
Alfred John Monson is accused of the murder of young Dudley Cecil Hambrough. For over 3 years Monson had acted not only as Hambrough’s tutor and guardian but as his friend. What motive could there have been for Monson to commit murder? The prosecutio… -
Series 3: The Postmortem and the Gun
Content warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of the autopsy process A young man has been shot dead on a hunting trip; his two hunting companions are suspected of murder. With Monson arrested and Scott in the wind, attention turns to … -
Bonus Episode for Series 3: VR and Forensic Science
This is a bonus episode designed to accompany Episode 2 of Series 3. It features an interview between Pennie Stuart and Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science Senior Research Engineer Vincenzo Rinaldi about the application of Virtual Reality… -
Series 3: The Scene
The police believe the death of Cecil Hambrough was no accident. His tutor Alfred John Monson is arrested for his murder 20 days after the incident. Scott, the last member of the hunting party has disappeared. Now it is up to the experts to gather wh… -
Series 3: A Death
The early morning of Thursday 10 August 1893, a party of three men leave to hunt rabbits on the Ardlamont estate in Tighnabruaich. Only two return. The youngest, Lieutenant Dudley Cecil Hambrough has died from a bullet to the back of his head. The lo… -
Series 3: The Ardlamont Mystery
This third series of Inside Forensic Science delves into our most complicated historical case yet: the Ardlamont Trial. On 10 August 1893 a young man dies from a gunshot to the back of the head while hunting on the Ardlamont Estate. Was this incide… -
Series 2: Episode 6 The Verdict
It's now time to put all the pieces of this puzzle together. Do you believe Madeleine Smith is guilty of poisoning her lover? Only Scotland has a ‘not proven’ verdict. What does this mean for a jury and for those who receive this judgement? Join o… -
Series 2: Episode 5 The Poison
Content warning: this episode discusses suicide. There are unanswered questions around the circumstances of Emile's death. What can the forensic toxicology evidence tell us? Was everything carried out at the time that could have been and how would th…
