Ep. 19 Lives cut short The Tip Off

Gary Younge explains how he set out on a year long project to record the number of children and teenagers killed by knife violence.
Funerals, heartbreaking interviews and a tenacious hunt for data. This is the story of how a team of journalists produced award-winning and timely stories.
Read all about it:
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/series/beyond-the-blade
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/05/what-the-life-of-quamari-serunkuma-barnes-tells-us-about-child-knife-deaths-in-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/sep/19/the-boy-who-killed-and-the-mother-who-tried-to-stop-him
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Production support: Cheeka Ayers
Music: Dice Muse and Trekks.
Listen to Letter to Q here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzGiBPDl5d0


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