An Appointment With Murder
An Appointment With Murder is a forensic examination of those who kill. In Series 1, we turn the scalpel inward on doctors who kill: trusted professionals who betrayed their oath to save lives. From the calculated crimes of Dr Harold Shipman to the dark legacy of Dr John Bodkin-Adams, this series delves deep into the minds, methods, and motivations of medical murderers. Hosted by Dr Andrew Johns, a leading forensic psychiatrist who spent years inside Broadmoor Hospital with some of Britain’s most infamous killers, and Dr Harry Brunjes, physician, expert witness, and senior figure in medical ethics, An Appointment with Murder is where medicine meets malice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Launching on 21st May 2025: An Appointment with Murder, a forensic examination of those who kill.
In Series 1, we turn the scalpel inward on doctors who kill: trusted professionals who betrayed their oath to save lives. From the calculated crimes of Dr Harold Shipman to the dark legacy of Dr John Bodkin-Adams, this series delves deep into the minds, methods, and motivations of medical murderers.
Hosted by Dr Harry Brunjes, ph...
The spectre of Dr Harold Shipman hangs over the medical community like a black cloud on the horizon: ominous and bleak. His victims run into the hundreds, probably more than we’ll ever know. History tells us that Shipman would eventually die at his own hand, hung in his prison cell. But what of Dr John Bodkin Adams, a medical practitioner who preceded Shipman some decades before and is believed to have killed almost as many of his ...
Bumptious, bucolic, much admired among the tailored lawns of Eastbourne’s elite, but who was Dr John Bodkin Adams really? Fundamentally, a religious man, devoted to his mother who he called ‘the most religious woman in Ireland’ who manged to transform himself from an out of depth medical student to the higher echelons of the seaside town’s social circle, a stratum of society he quietly envied and despised.
Despite this he charme...
Pathogen addict, given to forging prescriptions, a so-called mission-orientated killer and, it’s argued, that he became addicted to killing. Dr Harold Shipman could have been torn from the pages of a particularly bleak crime novel. A loner who would go so far as killing patients in his own clinic, his bloody hands are all over history, even from an early age; even as a junior doctor he certified 133 deaths and was present at a thir...
If Jack the Ripper was a surgeon or not is still a matter of debate, some theories argue that he might have been a butcher, worked in a slaughterhouse, or a doctor given the clinical and professional manner of his mutilations. In total, the police would investigate a series of 11 brutal murders between 1888 and 1891. The victims all prostitutes working in the slums of the East End. The investigation was substantial – over a th...
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