18 episodes

Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned and produced by Paul McNally.
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    • 4.2 • 47 Ratings

Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned and produced by Paul McNally.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Alibi EXTRAS: Ep1 - Polishing a turd

    Alibi EXTRAS: Ep1 - Polishing a turd

    The legend John Bartmann kicks off our first episode of Alibi EXTRAS. We hear how he made Alibi atmospheric through music.
    Produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 18 min
    Asylum E2: Detained for eight days and beaten for being a journalist

    Asylum E2: Detained for eight days and beaten for being a journalist

    In this episode Opoka talks to South Sudanese journalist Diing Magot about her tragic experience of being arrested and detained for eight days, shaved and beaten for simply being a journalist.
    Investigative journalist Opoka p'Arop Otto has asylum in The Netherlands. He was forced to flee his country of South Sudan because he was in danger of being killed. The incredible journalism he produced about the situation in his country meant be could no longer live there. He is now rebuilding his life in Europe, forced to work as a cleaner in order to make money for his family... and yet he is still helping other journalists back in South Sudan as they fight to survive.
    Asylum is a limited podcast series that investigates the state of journalism in South Sudan. Opoka will tell his story and uncover the torture, poisoning and atrocities that journalists are facing in his country on a daily basis.
    Presented and co-produced by Opoka p'Arop Otto.
    Our Executive Producer is Paul McNally.
    Produced by ⁠Develop Audio⁠.
    This series was supported by The Pulitzer Center.
    Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned and produced by Paul McNally.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 26 min
    Asylum E1: Poisoned by the state

    Asylum E1: Poisoned by the state

    Investigative journalist Opoka p'Arop Otto has asylum in The Netherlands. He was forced to flee his country of South Sudan because he was in danger of being killed. The incredible journalism he produced about the situation in his country meant be could no longer live there. He is now rebuilding his life in Europe, forced to work as a cleaner in order to make money for his family... and yet he is still helping other journalists back in South Sudan as they fight to survive.
    Asylum is a limited podcast series that investigates the state of journalism in South Sudan. Opoka will tell his story and uncover the torture, poisoning and atrocities that journalists are facing in his country on a daily basis.
    Presented and co-produced by Opoka p'Arop Otto.
    Our Executive Producer is Paul McNally.
    Produced by ⁠Develop Audio⁠.
    This series was supported by The Pulitzer Center.
    Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned and produced by Paul McNally.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 29 min
    Introducing... Asylum

    Introducing... Asylum

    Investigative journalist Opoka p'Arop Otto has asylum in The Netherlands. He was forced to flee his country of South Sudan because he was in danger of being killed. The incredible journalism he produced about the situation in his country meant be could no longer live there. He is now rebuilding his life in Europe, forced to work as a cleaner in order to make money for his family... and yet he is still helping other journalists back in South Sudan as they fight to survive.
    Asylum is a limited podcast series that investigates the state of journalism in South Sudan. Opoka will tell his story and uncover the torture, poisoning and atrocities that journalists are facing in his country on a daily basis.
    Presented and co-produced by Opoka p'Arop Otto.
    Our Executive Producer is Paul McNally.
    Produced by ⁠Develop Audio⁠.
    This series was supported by The Pulitzer Center.
    Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned and produced by Paul McNally.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 4 min
    S2: Laduma High E6: The Teacher

    S2: Laduma High E6: The Teacher

    Paul confronts a teachers who has been accused of being involved in the killing.
    Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned, produced and hosted by Paul McNally.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 34 min
    S2: Laduma High E5: The Second Assassination

    S2: Laduma High E5: The Second Assassination

    Paul tries to uncover the findings of a private investigator who has been working on the case... but instead finds a second female teacher who has been assassinated right in the same city.
    Alibi is an award-winning investigative podcast series. It was created in January 2017 and is owned, produced and hosted by Paul McNally.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
47 Ratings

47 Ratings

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Exceptional!

Paul is a gifted writer and narrator, I have thoroughly enjoyed Alibi. The work, effort, passion and creativity by the production team is clearly reflected in the final product. The stories are compelling, and importantly manage to strike a key balance in being both sensitive to the victims and hard-hitting, a balance not many hosts are able to capture. I appreciate the subtleties. It allows the audience into the whole and doesn’t fall into an insipid “trauma-tourism” which has become so popular. Thank you for the excellent work. This is investigative journalism executed professionally and narrated beautifully. You should all be proud. I look forward to what comes next.

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Brilliantly produced and totally gripping

Africa is not known for podcasts at all, much less well-produced investigative stories. This series changes all that totally. South African author and journalist, Paul McNally, dives deep into rural South Africa and tells an incredible story of some of the most forgotten people on earth. Highly reccommend.

embolla111 ,

Unnecessarily drawn out

So little actually happens in this podcast, but they have somehow managed to stretch it out over 8 episodes. Furthermore the parts where the host talks to the journalist sounds so awkwardly scripted and not conversational at all. I am very proud to see a half decent true crime podcast come out of South Africa, but needs some improvement.

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