Podcast Episodes

Episode 40 - Happiness Is Not Welcome

Season 1 Episode 40

How do you respond or react to someone when they are seemingly happy and you feel lousy? It takes on a whole new meaning in here, manifesting in anger, violence or malicious acts to derail your happi…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Episode 39 - The Worst Night Of My Life

Season 1 Episode 39

As I settled and focused, there was a young inmate slumped on the floor with a bed sheet noose tied around his neck. He was alive, but he was desperate.

During the three and a half years I was in pris…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 38 - The Frenchman

Season 1 Episode 38

By seven o'clock this morning the BBC was reporting a man knifed and dead in Pentonville, two seriously injured and two arrested. By the time I'd put the phone down on T, a guy had been slashed in th…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 37 - The Despicables Come Unstuck

Season 1 Episode 37

The constant level of juvenile behaviour is beyond what you can imagine, but at the same time it has to be taken seriously because of the ever present violent undertones that lurk. You may be surpris…

Published on 3 months ago

Episode 36 - Ship Outs + Slashings

Season 1 Episode 36

Any one of us can be attacked or caught up in a violent episode, and potentially or probably be knifed, slashed, coshed, swilled, strangled or battered brutally and viciously. Who do you become as a …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Episode 35 - Self-Inflicted Death

Season 1 Episode 35

Self-harming is as common as the cockroaches that appear each evening. The place is infested with self-harming severe mental health issues and men attempting suicide daily, to the entertainment of fa…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 34 - Lockdown, Ship Outs + Unwanted Headlines

Season 1 Episode 34

Four lads went in on another inmate. Brutal attack apparently. They tried to cut his ears off because he's supposedly a nonce, aka a paedophile. Worse than the attack itself was the screaming from th…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 33 - The Meat Wagon

Season 1 Episode 33

Crime is bigger than both the Beatles and Liverpool Football Club in this city, and I am nestled in the epicentre of one of the most criminally minded group of men in Europe, and it's chaos of a diff…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Episode 32 - Swimming With The Sharks

Season 1 Episode 32

What was it like being GW? It was all crazy as fuck. I used to drink a lot, champagne back in those days. Vodka too...

During the three and a half years I was in prison I wrote over a million words by…

Published on 4 months ago

Episode 31 - A Billion Pound Head Fuck At 70

Season 1 Episode 31

Can you imagine being cooped up in a prison cell without any power? No lights, no TV, no hot water and no radio.

During the three and a half years I was in prison I wrote over a million words by hand.…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago