What makes a great detective? A razor-sharp mind? Amazing powers of deduction? Unique observational skills? Or simple perseverance? Each week on Scotland Yard Confidential, we enter the minds of some of the greatest detectives in history — real-life sleuths who would give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money. We'll follow in their footsteps as they hunt down suspects and crack seemingly impossible cases. Scotland Yard Confidential is a Spotify Original from Parcast, produced in partnership with Noiser. New episodes Thursdays!
Latest episodes
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52 min
Listen Everywhere: Real Survival Stories
Real Survival Stories is the brand-new show from Noiser hosted by John Hopkins. Hear true stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary survival situations. Stranded in the…
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46 min
Introducing: Detectives Don’t Sleep - Murder in Paradise Part One
From Noiser, Detectives Don’t Sleep is the new podcast that takes you beyond the police tape to shadow the real detectives who worked history’s most intriguing cases. In this taste…
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45 min
Bank of America
On Thursday, April 24th, 1975, a group of six well-dressed men let themselves into the Bank of America in London's Mayfair. They had one intention: to break into the vault and make…
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50 min
The Millennium Dome Heist
On November 7th, 2000, a professional gang of thieves attempted an audacious robbery in London. Their target: the largest flawless diamond collection in the world. Its location: th…
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43 min
Harry the Valet
On October 17th, 1898, a most daring theft took place on a train at Paris’s Gare du Nord station. In the blink of an eye, and in broad daylight, a priceless collection of jewels wa…
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37 min
Call in the Yard
June 23rd, 1946. Police Constable Arthur Collins was at home with his wife Marjorie in Warwick, England. Whilst getting ready for bed, he heard the sound of shattering glass. He pu…
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46 min
The Braybrook Street Massacre
On a sunny August day in 1966, on a quiet street near Wormwood Scrubs Common, an unmarked police car flagged down a battered blue Vanguard to ask about a missing tax disc. What hap…
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39 min
Johnny the Gent
In October 1946, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson - were staying at Ednam Lodge, in the genteel countryside on the outskirts of London. The royal…
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44 min
The Black Butterfly
It was an ordinary Sunday evening in February, 1939, in London's brightly lit West End. Legendary detective, Robert Fabian, known to all as Fabian of the Yard, was enjoying a quiet…
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42 min
The Peer's Butler
In December 1970, Julian Sessé, the long-serving butler to Granada TV Chairman, Lord Bernstein, was found brutally murdered in his basement flat in Belgravia. With little hope for…
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46 min
The Kentish Town Bank Manager
February 1947 is one of the snowiest months on UK record. As roads and rail are forced to close, in London, a six-man criminal gang organized a robbery targeting the Midland Bank o…
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42 min
The Battle of Heathrow
Amid the heatwave of July 1948, a gang of London's top thieves came up with an audacious plot to steal half a million pounds worth of gold bullion and other valuables from the cust…
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54 min
The Game Reserve Murder
On September 6th, 1988, 28-year-old British photographer, Julie Ward disappeared while driving through the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. Four days later, her father, John Ward,…
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2 min
Bass Reeves: No Master But Duty
This is the story of a legendary figure of the Wild West… The man widely believed to have inspired the Lone Ranger… Who was born into slavery — and became one of America’s most rev…
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50 min
The Tichborne Claimant
1854. A shipwreck was found off the coast of Brazil. On board was a young English aristocrat, 25-year-old Sir Roger Tichborne. But his mother, a wealthy dowager, could not accept h…
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49 min
Murder in Suburbia
2006. On a quiet street in Wembley, London, special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri, was found bleeding to death on her driveway. With no obvious enemies, police initially struggled to…
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51 min
Witchcraft in Warwickshire
On February 14th, 1945, 75-year-old farm worker, Charles Walton, was brutally murdered while working in some fields. His body had been pinned to the ground with his own pitchfork,…
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52 min
The Jigsaw Murders
1935. Up in the picturesque hills of Moffat, Scotland, a gruesome discovery is made. Beneath an old bridge, a humble country police constable stands amid human body parts. The publ…
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51 min
The Kidnapping of Muriel McKay
On December 29th, 1969, Muriel McKay disappeared from her home in London's affluent suburb of Wimbledon. Her husband, the newspaper executive Alick McKay, was convinced she'd been…
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42 min
Murder in the King's House
On June 8th, 1946, London was in a party mood. A Victory Parade to celebrate the end of World War II saw the city consumed with pomp and fanfare. However, in the lull between the p…