Assume Nothing Podcast
The teams assume nothing as they examine events through fresh eyes.
Episodes to download
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Episode 3: A Flash in the Dark—The Secrets of St Brides
Sat 29 Oct 2022
3/6 The mystery deepens as a visit to Burtonport reveals strange goings-on at St Brides.
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Episode 2: The Flickering Candle—The Secrets of St Brides
Sat 22 Oct 2022
2/6 A journalist recalls a strange visit to the mysterious school.
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Episode 1: The Silver Sisterhood—The Secrets of St Brides
Sat 22 Oct 2022
1/6 A mysterious new school opens in a remote Irish village, but all is not as it seems.
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Episode 6: The Final Throw—The Last Request
Sat 24 Sep 2022
6/6 Will a last throw of the dice be fruitful in the search for Martin's birth mother?
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Episode 5: Bleeding from the Ears—The Last Request
Sat 17 Sep 2022
5/6 Laura revisits an old story Martin worked on to see if it might advance the search.
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Episode 4: The Celebrity—The Last Request
Sat 10 Sep 2022
4/6 Concerns surface that Martin has already searched for his mother and been rejected.
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Episode 3: The Prodigal Son—The Last Request
Sat 3 Sep 2022
3/6 Laura contacts a woman that could be Martin's mother and digs deeper into Bessborough.
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Episode 2: Absolutely Terrified—The Last Request
Sat 27 Aug 2022
2/6 Laura explains why it has taken her 17 years to search for Martin's mother.
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Episode 1: A Nightmare About to Dawn—The Last Request
Sat 20 Aug 2022
1/6 Before Martin died at Dignitas he asked his ex to find his mother and pass on a message.
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Episode 1: The First Good Source—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
1/8 1971: James recruits a key informer.
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Episode 2: The Interrogation—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
2/8 A dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer. A key informer is abducted by the IRA.
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Episode 3: Dangerous Liaisons—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
3/8 A dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer. James builds dangerous relationships.
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Episode 4: Internment day—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
4/8 A dramatized memoir of a Special Branch Officer. 9th August 1971 – internment begins.
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Episode 5: The Quartermaster—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
5/8 A dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer. A key IRA suspect is arrested, but how?
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Episode 6: The Irish Englishman—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
6/8 Dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer. James recalls Seán Mac Stíofáin.
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Episode 7: Blurred Lines—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
7/8 A dramatized memoir of a Special Branch Officer. The disappearance of Robert Nairac
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Episode 8: The Enemy Within—The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
Sat 21 May 2022
8/8 Dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer. James discovers his phone is tapped.
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Episode 6: Tango One—The Heiress and The General
Sat 5 Mar 2022
6/6 Cahill is desperate to sell the paintings, but the net is closing fast.
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Episode 5: The Hunt—The Heiress and The General
Sat 5 Mar 2022
5/6 Police plan an elaborate sting to catch the General red-handed.
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Episode 4: The General—The Heiress and The General
Sat 26 Feb 2022
4/6 When the collection is stolen again, suspicion soon falls on a notorious Dublin gangster.
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Episode 3: Alone on the Pier—The Heiress and The General
Sat 26 Feb 2022
3/6 Could a remote cottage in West Cork hold the key to the missing paintings?
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Episode 2: The Heiress—The Heiress and The General
Sat 19 Feb 2022
2/6 As police scour the countryside for clues, a ransom note arrives.
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Episode 1: A Knock on the Door—The Heiress and The General
Sat 19 Feb 2022
1/6 Wicklow, 1974. The biggest art heist in history is about to take place.
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Episode 3: Cigars with Fidel—Chuck's Secret Bucks
Sat 29 Jan 2022
3/3 Chuck makes a life-altering decision, meets Fidel Castro & inspires Microsoft's Bill Gates
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Episode 2: Money Making Machine—Chuck's Secret Bucks
Sat 22 Jan 2022
2/3 A world of intelligence, tax free havens and a yearning to reconnect with ancestral ties.
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Episode 1: Clandestine Encounters—Chuck's Secret Bucks
Sat 15 Jan 2022
1/3 A secret-world broker, an old man left broke, assume nothing in this billion-dollar story
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Episode 3: Burned or Buried—Breakup
Sat 11 Dec 2021
3/3 Ophelia Byrne finds out what really happened when the Irish border was finalised in 1925.
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Episode 2: Secrecy's Veil—Breakup
Sat 4 Dec 2021
2/3 Ophelia Byrne finds out what really happened when the Irish border was finalised in 1925.
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Episode 1: Drawing the Line—Breakup
Sat 27 Nov 2021
1/3 Ophelia Byrne finds out what really happened when the Irish border was finalised in 1925.
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Rape Trial: Before You Begin—Rape Trial
Mon 1 Nov 2021
A rape trial that changes everything, for the acquitted, the woman and the legal system.
