The BAD: All About Crime Podcast is brought to you by the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the City of Sydney.
Join crime writers and crime aficionados, Suzanne Leal and Andy Muir, as they explore the big questions in crime and crime writing. True crime, domestic crime, psychological thrillers, crime noir, they’ll be talking about this and much more with your favourite crime writers every month.
BUT BAD: All about crime isn’t just a podcast, it’s a whole community of crime lovers, readers and writers coming together to talk crime and we want you, our listeners and readers, to be a big part of the conversation. That’s why we’ve created the BAD Sydney Bookclub on Facebook. Join up, send us your thoughts and questions and become part of the BAD Sydney crime loving community.
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The BAD: All About Crime Podcast is brought to you by the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the City of Sydney.
Join crime writers and crime aficionados, Suzanne Leal and Andy Muir, as they explore the big questions in crime and crime writing. True crime, domestic crime, psychological thrillers, crime noir, they’ll be talking about this and much more with your favourite crime writers every month.
BUT BAD: All about crime isn’t just a podcast, it’s a whole community of crime lovers, readers and writers coming together to talk crime and we want you, our listeners and readers, to be a big part of the conversation. That’s why we’ve created the BAD Sydney Bookclub on Facebook. Join up, send us your thoughts and questions and become part of the BAD Sydney crime loving community.
Subscribe to be surprised and captivated by our take on crime and crime writing.
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021. "To Kill the Dog or Not?" Is there a line a crime writer should not cross at the risk of alienating their readers? In this lively debate, Sulari Gentill, Robert Gott, Jean Kittson and Sue Turnbull will take sides on whether or not the dog should die. Well-known dog lover Richard Glover referees.
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021. "The Past is Never Past" Unresolved violent events in the past have a way of coming back to haunt the present. Andy Muir interviews three writers whose protagonists’ lives are turned upside down when the past which they thought was buried rises up unexpectedly. GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events: booktopia.kh4ffx.net/RyOZ3R THE BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL IS ON FROM 8-10 SEPTEMBER for more info visit https://www.badsydney.com We would like to thank the City of Sydney, Create NSW and the State Library of NSW for their ongoing support of the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the Bad All About Crime Podcast.
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021. "Through the Eyes of a Child" How do children explain the inexplicable, understand the incomprehensible? Mark Brandi and Lyn Yeowart talk about their two very different books, in which frightened children living in rural families ruled over by terrifying fathers tell their stories. Facilitated by Suzanne Leal. GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events: booktopia.kh4ffx.net/RyOZ3R THE BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL IS ON FROM 8-10 SEPTEMBER for more info visit https://www.badsydney.com We would like to thank the City of Sydney, Create NSW and the State Library of NSW for their ongoing support of the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the Bad All About Crime Podcast.
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. "Australia as a Crime Scene" Has the whole of Australia become a crime scene since colonisation? Where do we start to look? First Nations speakers Kodie Bedford, Julie Janson and Melissa Lucashenko (joining via Zoom) give us a new perspective. Facilitated by Daniel Browning. GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events: booktopia.kh4ffx.net/RyOZ3R THE BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL IS ON FROM 8-10 SEPTEMBER 2022 for more info visit https://www.badsydney.com We would like to thank the City of Sydney, Create NSW and the State Library of NSW for their ongoing support of the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the Bad All About Crime Podcast.
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. "Close Encounters with a Murderer" How does having a friend murdered and knowing the murderer affect you? One of Australia’s best-known novelists, Robert Drewe, talks to Nicole Abadee about his personal experiences with serial killer Eric Cooke and his family, in suburban Perth, in the early 1960s. THE BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL IS ON FROM 8-10 SEPTEMBER for more info visit https://www.badsydney.com GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events: booktopia.kh4ffx.net/RyOZ3R
“Librarie’s are all about the stories they contain.” Catherine du Peloux Menage Earlier this year Lismore Library was devastated by the horrendous floods, after having just rebuilt and recovered from the floods of the previous year. Moved by an image of hundreds of books being thrown out of the windows of Lismore Library, BAD Sydney Crime decided to help by putting on an event with Candice Fox, Chris Hammer and Michael Robothom, moderated by Kate Evans from ABC’s “The Bookshelf." The event raised $16,000 for the Library and this episode is a recording of that event. Lismore Library are still in need of support. If you would like to donate money or books go to https://rtrl.nsw.gov.au/flood-recovery-donations?fbclid=IwAR0CCiR-3eB6qe-pc7wskAMJvL4P8BAMBqrSicItVoY40M0e983cs5KBatM
This is a special presentation of a session from the 2021 Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival, "The Way it is Now" Bad Sydney Chair, Professor, Reviewer and Judge, Dr Sue Turnbull, talks to award winning Crime Writer, Garry Disher. Garry is the celebrated winner of the 2021 Ned Kelly Award and has a new book with a new detective, Charlie Deravin.
Suzanne Leal talks to bestselling authors Jane Caro and Debra Oswald about the moral conundrum they explore in their gripping new novels: is it ever be justifiable to take a life in order to save one?
In this episode, Andy Muir talks with Rae Cairns about her debut crime thriller ‘The Good Mother’, a story of a mother forced to confront her past when her son travels to Ireland. How hard will a mother fight to protect her family? But that’s not the only story that is explored. This novel has had one of the more unusual pathways to publication we can think of and after talking with Rae, the podcast team assembles to discuss both the novel and Rae’s inspiring story about prizes, perseverance, self belief and not giving up.
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. "FRESH BLOOD" Bad All About Crime Podcast host, Andy Muir is in conversation with 3 new writers about their varying experiences of launching their first novels and their very different but equally compelling protagonists. Featuring: Sarah Thornton, Peter Papathanasiou, Lyn Yeowart, Loraine Peck
This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. FRESH BLOOD 2 Bad All About Crime Podcast host, Andy Muir is in conversation with 3 new writers about their varying experiences of launching their first novels and their very different but equally compelling female protagonists. Featuring: Sarah Thornton, Peter Papathanasiou, Lyn Yeowart, Loraine Peck
Christmas is fast approaching and when in doubt there is no better present than a good crime book. In this episode the BAD: All About Crime Podcast team have Christmas recommendations covered. BAD Sydney Chair, Professor Sue Turnbull talks to Suzanne, Andy and Catherine about their top crime recommendations from 2021, their favourite classic crime and the perfect books to hook a person into crime this Christmas. Together they have complied a terrific list of must gives and must reads.
Suzanne Leale and the Bad: All About Crime team explore the all important question "What if They're Innocent?" with two of Australia's best crime writing minds on the subject. Dr Xanthe Mallett forensic anthropologist, criminologist and author tackles the question from a true crime perspective, drawing on a number of disturbing real life cases from her latest book "Reasonable Doubt." Then best selling crime fiction author, Candice Fox, talks about why this question is always at the forefront of her mind when developing characters and writing her books. Afterwards Andy Muir, Catherine Du Peloux Menage and Sue Turnbull join Suzanne to unpack the question further, through the books they have read and the cases that have disturb and intrigued them over the years.
In this episode host Andy Muir talks with debut author Amy Suiter Clark about her break out novel “Girl, 11”, true crime podcasts and Amy’s process for writing a crime novel. Following the interview, the “BAD- all about crime” team dissect their thoughts on “Girl, 11”, citizen investigators, crime journalism in fiction, and the rise of the podcast detective. As always, all the books discussed can be purchased from podcast partner Booktopia.
Suzanne Leal talks to Jaqueline Bublitz whose novel, Before You Knew My Name, is taking the world by storm. Jacqueline discusses why she decided to spotlight the victim instead of the perpetrator and how she brought her unforgettable character, Alice Lee, to life. Then Jaqueline joins the Bad: All About Crime Book Club panel - Suzanne, Andy. Catherine and Sue - to explore other victim-driven narratives in crime fiction.
In this episode host Andy Muir is joined by Text CEO and Publisher, Michael Heyward, to discuss the work of the late Peter Temple and his book The Red Hand. Following the interview, Suzanne Leal, Dr Sue Turnbull and Catherine du Peloux Menage explore Temple’s back catalogue with Andy, unpacking Jack Irish, Truth and The Broken Shore to reflect on why he is one of Australia’s most important crime writers. All the books discussed can be purchased from podcast partner Booktopia.
In this episode hosts Suzanne Leal and Andy Muir are joined by journalist and writer of true crime and crime fiction Caroline Overington, as well as art historian, crime novelist and true crime writer Katherine Kovacic. Caroline will talk about her books Missing William Tyrrell and The Ones you Trust. Katherine will discuss her latest book in the Alex Clayton series The Shifting Landscape and her first true crime book The Schoolgirl Strangler. You can buy the books from podcast partner Booktopia.
Crime fiction –once you’re hooked, it’s hard to beat the addiction. In the first official episode of the BAD: All About Crime Podcast hosts Suzanne Leal and Andy Muir are joined by Catherine du Peloux Menagé, artistic director of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, and crime fiction review and judge, Sue Turnbull, to talk about the books that first got them hooked and the one that’s most recently kept them addicted.
Welcome to BAD: All About Crime a brand new podcast brought to you by BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the City of Sydney. In this podcast, writers and crime aficionados, Suzanne Leal and Andy Muir, explore the big questions in crime and crime writing. True crime, domestic crime, psychological thrillers, crime noir, they’ll be talking about this and much more with your favourite crime writers every month.
The BAD: All About Crime Podcast is brought to you by the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the City of Sydney.
Join crime writers and crime aficionados, Suzanne Leal and Andy Muir, as they explore the big questions in crime and crime writing. True crime, domestic crime, psychological thrillers, crime noir, they’ll be talking about this and much more with your favourite crime writers every month.
BUT BAD: All about crime isn’t just a podcast, it’s a whole community of crime lovers, readers and writers coming together to talk crime and we want you, our listeners and readers, to be a big part of the conversation. That’s why we’ve created the BAD Sydney Bookclub on Facebook. Join up, send us your thoughts and questions and become part of the BAD Sydney crime loving community.
Subscribe to be surprised and captivated by our take on crime and crime writing.
