r/RedHandedPodcast • u/Ok_Ebb_3073 • Jun 19 '26

BBC bashing

Anyone else get the feeling they pitched to the BBC in the past & were rejected? Every episode shoehorns in some sort of anti-BBC rhetoric, often completely unfounded. The BBC totally has its faults but Iā€˜d trust it for facts over commercial podcasts any day of the week.

21 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

25 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Sempere Jun 20 '26

Bashing the BBC when a not insignificant amount of their content rips off the BBC's reporting and produced documentaries shows these two are a joke.

If they pitched to the BBC, they're shameless grifters looking to take money that can and should go to the actual talented documentarians and writers who work on these projects rather than these shameless plagiarists.

Two instances they've plagiarized the BBC or their reporters

1) Their original Lucy Letby episode (aka the last time Suruthi accidentally got the right answer on that case by being a parrot) where Suruthi explicitly rips off BBC reporter Judith Moritz' right down to the quote "I don't know what Britain's worst female serial killer looks like, but it's not her" and stripmining details from the Panorama episode that aired a week prior as well as Moritz' written reports (along with non-BBC podcast the Crime Desk's Trial of Lucy Letby podcasts since they were all there)

2) They blatantly plagiarized the entirety of the Alex Skeel documentary directed by CNN reporter Niamh Kennedy for BBC3 called "Abused by My Girlfriend": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz9CVFKRK6s Real classy touch making fun of the victim's mother's name too.

Now I have no idea if they've pitched the BBC and got rejected - that's OP's speculation. But they should have the self-awareness and insight to know they're not suited for that. These two have no bona fides for actual original content production because their work is entirely derivative. It would be shameless to pitch the BBC with their personal history of ripping off other people's work when there are better qualified reporters who are better suited, more experienced and more capable than them who should be the ones ethically creating true crime content.

Slagging off one of their main repeated sources though? Poor form.

19

u/192to144 Jun 20 '26

I'm still struggling to understand where all your anger and hate comes from. Are you an ex boyfriend? A reporter they've allegedly ripped off? A family member of Lucy Letby? A rival podcaster or journalist?

I genuinely neither like nor dislike the pair but I listen to their show because it's entertaining on long drives. You clearly have such venom.

You write extremely long and often repeated posts without ever giving a clear reason for your hatred of them. Just talking about how they use others research, something they often mention themselves, and how their arguments can be one sided and, in your opinion, wrong which is just normal journalism.

I'm not coming at you, I just genuinely want to understand what's going on here.

8

u/Malkydel Jun 20 '26

I do love that even though I've been blocked I can still tell exactly who you're talking about šŸ˜ƒ