| The Hurricane Tapes | |
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Steve Crossman |
| Genre | True crime |
| Format | Podcast |
| Length | Variable (27–53 minutes) |
| Production | |
| Production | Joel Hammer |
| Theme music composed by | Nick Thorburn |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 14 January – 1 April 2019 |
| Ratings | 3/5  |
| Provider | BBC World Service |
| Related | |
| Website | bbc |
The Hurricane Tapes is a 13-part BBC World Service podcast series, released in 2019, discussing in detail the case of Rubin Carter, an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted twice of murder in 1966 and 1976 respectively and later released following a petition of habeas corpus in 1985 after serving almost 20 years in prison.
Presenter Steve Crossman and producer Joel Hammer use interviews with survivors, case notes from the original investigations, and 40 hours of tapes recorded with Carter by author Ken Klonsky for his 2011 book The Eye of the Hurricane and recordings of Vincent DeSimone, the lead detective.[1][2]
- ^ Sturges, Fiona (13 January 2019). "True crime podcasts — The Hurricane Tapes delves into the case of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, with startling new testimony". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ Quirke, Antonia (2 January 2019). "The Hurricane Tapes: a new BBC true crime podcast about a 1966 triple homicide". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 November 2021.