BBC’s Crime Next Door examines how a 17-year-old vampire-obsessed student took the life of 90-year-old, Mabel Leyshon. Plus, people who have found a better way to approach life
The 2001 murder of 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon at her home on the Welsh island of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) by an assailant who drank her blood made once-friendly neighbours suddenly fearful of one another. Behind the slightly sensationalist title, this podcast from the BBC’s Crime Next Door strand sensitively retells the story, with host Meic Parry contextualising what a case like this meant in a close-knit Welsh community. Hannah J Davies
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It’s probably unsurprising that this podcast by Ilanit-Michele Woods, the Emmy-nominated sound editor of Adolescence, sounds great. More importantly, the six-part series – a tender portrait of her Holocaust survivor grandmother Olga, the parent of Woods’s mum Erika – is highly moving. Translated from the original Hungarian, it is told largely via Olga’s own memoirs. HJD
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