Inside Forensic Science
By Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science
Each series of Inside Forensic Science explores a crime where forensic science has played a major role. The story is told through the narrator Pennie Stuart and interviews with forensic science, law and police experts.
Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee. The podcast was funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee. The podcast was funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
Latest episode
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Series 4: A Case of Stolen Identity
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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…