PODCASTS
Fairy Meadow podcast review — should ruined lives be entertainment?
A true crime series about a little girl who disappeared in Australia upsets James Marriott
The Times
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Narrated by James Marriott
Fairy Meadow
★★★★☆
Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast
★★★★☆
“This is the story of what happens when a child goes missing . . .” Oh God. “. . . grief, guilt and never giving up”. I can’t take it. “On a sunny afternoon, on January 12, 1970, Cheryl Grimmer was taken from the changing rooms of Fairy Meadow beach in New South Wales, Australia. She was three years old.” Podcast reviewer flees the room in anguish.
Fairy Meadow is a new true-crime podcast from BBC Sounds, hosted by the journalist Jon Kay. I have to confess my aversion to the genre. I’m too sensitive, I think. All those thousands of hours of podcasts dwelling on murder, rape, mutilation and abduction. This is surely the stuff you
