Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Alan Savill - A mutual respect for the bad guys
Conversations with Criminals
Matt Price tries to get answers to some of the questions he may have had to answer, if he'd taken violent revenge against the drug dealer who attacked his partner.
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Episodes
Episodes
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Paul Bethell was sentenced to 15 years for aggravated burglary on a joint enterprise charge.
He is still on licence which means that he could be re-called and go back to jail, but he is determined to stay out of trouble.
Paul talks about his crack addiction and recovery. He also talks about how he has changed and learned empathy towards victims of crime.
www.conversationswithcriminals.com
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Frank Portinari was a football hooligan, a member of the National Front, he is the ex-commander of London UDA – Ulster Defence Association and he went to jail for supplying guns.
www.frankportinari.com
TWITTER @DoormanFrank
Frank's has written one book that has two different titles
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Loyalist-Paramilitary-Gunrunner-Extremism-Prison/dp/1699123314/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=frank+portinari&qid=1602512666&sr=8-1
The other title is "Left right Loyalist : From one extreme to another
Frank is currently writing his second book...
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Part two with Lee Ryan and it's brilliant again!
Lee talks about the threats to his family after his huge lotto win and how the criminals in leicester reacted to his winning. We talk about the value of money, Lee tells me about losing all his money and choosing to be homeless for 5 years.
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Lee Ryan was a car thief from Leicester who stole cars for various people, including arms dealers in overseas countries. He also stole vehicles for various crime-related work. We talk about the logistics of stealing cars and how that's changed from the nineties when he was at the height of his criminal career. He was dubbed by the press as the “lotto lag.”When he was in prison, he prayed and asked God to make him a multi-millionaire. He won 6.5 million quid on the lottery and as his cellmate predicted, things did not end well...
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
In 1996 Darren Barden was at home on a Monday night when there was a knock on the door. He was stabbed 20 times by two men and his best-selling book "Let's skip to the good bits", documents a 20-year journey to get his life back.
This is a very candid interview about the consequences of knife crime and Darren talks very honestly about what the attack did to him and his family.
He now uses his experiences to inspire other people.
Darren's book is here :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lets-Skip-Good-Bits-Courageous/dp/1527221628/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TJH46APX2PE8&dchild=1&keywords=darren+barden&qid=1599304180&sprefix=darren+barden%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-1
Darren's youtube channel and podcast :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YtScSpLgttKJ2BengPmSw
Change your life, put down your knife campaign :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/668677394003375
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
This is part of 2 of a chat with ex-bank robber Vinnie Bradish.
We talk about prison violence and the differences between different category prisons, getting out of prison after a long term sentence, and trying to adapt to a more normal life. And we hear what Vinnie is doing now and it's fascinating...
www.conversationswithcriminals.com
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Today's guest is Vinnie Bradish who was a bank robber. In part 1 of two parts, we talk about why armed robbers are given such respect in jail. We talk about the reality of robbing a bank and how it was just a job. I ask him about being interrogated by police and what it's like to be sentenced to 22 years in jail. I will leave you to decide whether Vinnie and his brother Shaun were given a fair trial or not after Stephen Roberts turned Queen's evidence against them in order to get a reduced sentence.
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
This is a 15 minute bonus episode. It's a conversation that didn't really fit with the rest of the podcast interview but I thought was really interesting. Last week's guest Joey Barnett offers his insight into being a prison listener.
www.conversationswithcriminals.com
Joey's book can bought here :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/South-London-Borstal-Boys-Tales/dp/B08C97X63J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RB8TCVXUIG82&keywords=joey+barnett&qid=1597313574&sprefix=joey+barne%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1