Shadow World

When aspiring movie editor Lewis Albrow lands an unusual interview with Colin Browne and his right-hand man D, he believes he’s finally found his break into the film industry - but instead he’s pulled into a very different world.
In prison, Colin Browne has written a script based on his life and his long-running criminal partnership with D, leading the gang Love of Money. But in Colin’s story, unlike in his life, the main protagonist manages to break free from his cycle of criminality.
When the pair reconnect after Colin’s release, they realise the script could be a way out of crime. They meet a smooth-talking fixer who promises to help them turn it into a movie, and begin a new chapter in their lives. But how serious are they about the film’s central theme - breaking the cycle of a life of crime?
Gripping stories from the Shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.
Presenter and Producer: Lewis Albrow
Series Producer: Emma Barnaby
Producer: Louis Hollis
Assistant Editor: Georgina Savage
Sound Designer, Composer, and Mix Engineer: Axel Kacoutie
Script Editor: Jason Lewis
Fact Checker: Jessica Hatcher-Moore
Production Manager: Anna-Marie Batho
Production Executive: Letisha Kidza
Head of Production: Nicky Murphy
Production Support: Emma Wood and Olivia Bouton
Executive Producers for Raw: Deborah Dudgeon, David Waters, and Tim Wardle.
Business Affairs: Amy Ofori-Attah, Clotilde Leroux, Damian Kent, and Emma Ong.
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
A Raw production for BBC Radio 4

Breakin’ the Cycle is the story of two feared London gangsters, Colin and D, who, in the early 2000’s decide to try and escape the cycle of crime by making a movie based on their own lives as gang leaders and drug dealers. But the lines between fact and fiction quickly begin to blur, when they take a star-studded cast and a largely white, middle-class film crew into their world, in an attempt to make the UK’s first authentic hood film. Accidental stabbings, drug dealing on set, and even a real-life shootout. Amongst the chaos, they're faced with the realities of leaving gang life behind, and the constant temptations of their old life threatening to drag them back in. Breakin’ the Cycle is a series about friendship, guns, drugs, money and the sacrifices required when leaving one life behind in pursuit of another.

Will justice finally prevail? For Shadow World: Stolen Years, the trial of Paul Quinn reaches its verdict. After more than two decades will the victim of the brutal rape finally see the right man convicted?
And at the conclusion of the trial will Andy feel a sense of closure? With two separate investigations still examining the failures in his case, the verdict is not the end of the story.
Shadow World: Gripping stories from the shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.
Presenter and Producer: Jemma Gander
Series Producer and Editor: Fran Robertson
Assistant Editor: Christopher Whyte
Composer: Sholto
Sound design and mix: Chris Maclean
Executive Producer for Goldhawk: Kate Holland
Commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

A Two Step Films production in association with Goldhawk for Radio 4

Why did it take so long to free an innocent man? In Shadow World: Stolen Years, the case against the new suspect in the 2003 rape case gathers pace, while Andrew Malkinson finally receives good news of his own.
But as the series turns to the role of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the appeal system, a deeper question emerges - how was he left in prison for so long?
Shadow World: Gripping stories from the shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.
Presenter and Producer: Jemma Gander
Series Producer and Editor: Fran Robertson
Assistant Editor: Christopher Whyte
Composer: Sholto
Sound design and mix: Chris Maclean
Executive Producer for Goldhawk: Kate Holland
Commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
A Two Step Films production in association with Goldhawk for Radio 4

Who is Mr B? In Shadow World: Stolen Years, a DNA match reopens a 20 year old rape case that should have been solved years earlier.
As police investigate the new suspect, Andrew Malkinson begins to reckon with the damage of a wrongful conviction and whether recovery after so many years in prison, is possible.

Shadow World: Gripping stories from the shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.
Presenter and Producer: Jemma Gander
Series Producer and Editor: Fran Robertson
Assistant Editor: Christopher Whyte
Composer: Sholto
Sound design and mix: Chris Maclean
Executive Producer for Goldhawk: Kate Holland
Commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
A Two Step Films production in association with Goldhawk for Radio 4