The week in radio and podcasts: Dirty John; Converging Cultures
Monsters of one sort or another crop up in a true-crime series and the battle between art and scienc..
Monsters of one sort or another crop up in a true-crime series and the battle between art and science
Dirty John | wondery.com
Converging Cultures | littleatoms.com
Put down your surveillance equipment, true-crime fans, I have an interesting new podcast for you. Dirty John is a six-part series made by the Los Angeles Times and Wondery. Pulitzer-nominated investigative reporter Christopher Goffard talks us through the romance of Debra and John. In 2014, Debra Newell, an attractive fiftysomething divorcee, joins match.com in search of true love. She finds it in the form of John Meehan, a good-looking anaesthetist who is very keen, very soon. Still, so is Newell, and all is well. Until her children meet him…
