Poor

This podcast is poor. The problems are two-fold: Laura has experience in her field, but she can’t write for toffee and her reading of her own words is dreadful. I suggest she gets someone who can actually write (most people can’t) to compose and edit her scripts. They could start by putting a big red line through her repeated favourite sentence openings “You see”, “And” and “Now” and cut all the self-insulgent waffle. I also suggest she ensures she always has someone else in the podcast to bounce ideas off - this would make it a far less monotonous listen.

More concerning are the vast number of factual errors peppering every episode — even basics like names are got completely wrong: it’s shocking. This is particularly problematic given the fact she sets herself up as an expert, supposedly analysing crimes in forensic detail. I’m a Londoner and it’s worrying to me to see such a slap-dash attitude from an ex-Scotland Yard employee. It doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence in our police force.