Gemma has been producing audio documentaries (formerly known as radio) for fifteen years for Radio 4, the World Service, and lately, Audible.
Gemma Newby
Senior Producer
“I joined Tortoise to tell stories with integrity. For me, in a podcast-rich world, Tortoise hits the sweet spot between narrative storytelling and investigative journalism, giving equal weight to both. I love that it doesn’t shy away from the heavy stuff.”
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Monday 27 February 2023
After the fall: A death on the Lansdowne Estate
When a vulnerable woman falls from a tower block, how do you find out what really happened?
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Monday 30 January 2023
Snatched
What do you do when your children are taken away by your ex-partner? Who do you call for help? And how do you get them back?
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Monday 19 December 2022
2022 picks – Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?
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Thursday 15 December 2022
The OG Satanic Panic – where’s the evidence?
In this special bonus episode of Hoaxed, Alexi and Gemma catch up on what’s happened since the last episode of Hoaxed went out and Alexi goes back to the original satanic panic to examine the evidence. He speaks to a professor who investigated dozens of satanic ritual abuse cases in the 1990s – and to a psychotherapist who believes that satanism is a modern-day “Auschwitz”.
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Monday 21 November 2022
Inside Unite: the union, Liverpool and the £100m hotel
One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has built a hotel in Birmingham at vast cost. Following the threads which explain why it became so wildly expensive leads inevitably to a surprising place: to Liverpool. And to questions which could hurt the Labour party.
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Thursday 13 October 2022
Bonnie and Clyde
In the final episode of Hoaxed, Alexi confronts Abraham and Ella about what they did in Hampstead – and why. And the police give Alexi some surprising news
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Thursday 6 October 2022
The Healer
Alexi and his producer fly to Morocco to confront Abraham Christie – and learn dark secrets about his past
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Thursday 29 September 2022
Infiltration
For a conspiracy to spread, important people need to be listening. Alexi discovers that the perpetrators of the Hampstead hoax have friends in high places, while he and the team close in on Abraham’s location
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Thursday 22 September 2022
Secrets and lies
Two young children make horrific allegations in a London police station, lighting the fuse on one of the most serious British conspiracy theories in decades
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Thursday 22 September 2022
Ella’s list
Seized upon by conspiracy theorists, Ella’s list of alleged cult members spreads like wildfire across the Internet. Hampstead parents start receiving death threats and lives are torn apart
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Thursday 22 September 2022
The Avengers
The perpetrators of the Hampstead hoax meet their match in an unassuming mystery novelist, who is determined to expose their lies and bring them to justice
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Monday 4 April 2022
Fallen women
Twenty-seven women. Falling. Off balconies, out of windows, from the top of multi-storey carparks. And there, in most of the cases, is a man, standing in the shadow of her fall. What if these women didn’t just fall, but were pushed?
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Monday 28 February 2022
Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?