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Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
The Derek Bentley Case 👇

In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.
September 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🔎 Decoding slang meaning and forensic linguistics 🔎

@timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss how important slang is in forensic linguistics casework in the Season One Series finale of Writing Wrongs.

You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or any podcast platform
August 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 What's on your dream MacLeod's Murder Tour? 🚨

@drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social
answer your questions on the Series 1 finale of Writing Wrongs.

Listen TOMORROW on your usual podcast platform or tinyurl.com/4b2m36ny.

@astonpress.bsky.social

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July 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🔊 Dropping this Friday, the Series 1 finale of Writing Wrongs, the AIFL podcast! 🔊

@timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social will be answering some of the questions that have come in from listeners over the course of the past 7 episodes 👇👇👇
July 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🎙️ Who wrote the retraction, the Greek police or the British teenager? - Episode 7 of the Writing Wrongs podcast out tomorrow 🎙️

In this episode, our hosts @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social discuss the Ayia Napa rape allegation case with @andreanini.com 👇
July 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Episode 5 of 'Writing Wrongs' will drop this Friday! In this episode, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss a murder case where Nicci was called upon to decode an obscure language game...

Follow/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...
April 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🎙 How are statements taken in police interviews?

@timgrant123.bsky.social & @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss this in the first episode of our podcast 'Writing Wrongs'.

📱 Listen now on all major platforms 👉 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

Do let us know what you think 👉 writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A forensic meteorologist?! ⛅

@issyclarke.bsky.social shares what they do in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' (www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...), featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social. You can't miss it!
March 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
What's sociolinguistic profiling? @timgrant123.bsky.social has got the answer in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs', available on all platforms 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

#academicsky
#linguistics
#sociolinguistics
#forensiclinguistics
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The serial killer downstairs and the birth of forensic linguistics.

You can now listen to this and much more in our new 'Writing Wrongs' podcast 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

Featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social & @timgrant123.bsky.social

#truecrime
#forensiclinguistics
#academicsky
March 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM