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Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story
Episode Three - Instruments of Murder
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
Instruments of murder: The key piece of evidence that detectives are always desperate to find is the murder weapon. It can hold vital clues that will expose the killer. In this programme we look at four...
Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story
Episode Two - Traces of Guilt
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
Traces of Evidence: Every contact leaves a trace. The killer will leave something at the scene of the crime - hairs , fibres or they will take something away with them such as the soil on their shoes. It’s...
Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story
Episode One - A Question of Identity
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
The body of evidence: The story of criminality is the story of identity. There was a time when obscuring the identity of the victim would ensure the killer escaped justice but the emergence of forensic...
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
Piracy
- Broadcast
- 2014 (25 mins)
The Pirate Bay is one of the largest file sharing sites in the world, founded in Sweden in 2003 by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. Faced with extreme pressure from the US-led entertainment...
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
Darknets
- Broadcast
- 2014 (25 mins)
Ben explores the phenomenon of internet identities, illustrated by the recent arrest of Ross Ulbricht. Allegedly using the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, he is accused of murder-for-hire and masterminding...
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
Scams
- Broadcast
- 2014 (26 mins)
In the internet age, one country has a major image problem: Nigeria. Lazy stereotype or rotten to the core, Ben visits Lagos to find out if the so-called scam capital of the world really lives up to its name.
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
Heists
- Broadcast
- 2014 (25 mins)
Travelling to New York City, Ben examines two of the largest cybercrimes in internet history- the theft of $40m from ATMs around the world, and the data breach of 40 million credit card numbers from US...
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
Surveillance
- Broadcast
- 2014 (26 mins)
In 2013 Edward Snowden and a handful of journalists revealed to the world the systematic surveillance of global internet traffic by the US and the UK. How he managed to reveal to the world the story of our...
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
Cyber War
- Broadcast
- 2014 (26 mins)
It has been described as the Hiroshima of cyber war, the moment where the fevered imaginations of science fiction finally came true. From as early as 2005 a computer worm called Stuxnet disrupted what the...
Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
A specially commissioned documentary in which Michael Sandel, the world renowned Harvard professor, looks at the philosophy of justice. Is it acceptable to torture a terrorist in order to discover where a...