Inside Broadmoor

Up Close and Personal with Britain’s Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi, Emma French

Narrated by: Karl Jenkinson

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For more than 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous, and psychopathic.

Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863, it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe, John Straffen, and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan.

The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high-security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside.

Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to date.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Jonathan Levi and Emma French (P)2021 Tantor

Excellent

This was very well written, and the narration was perfect. Facinating. The narrator knows what he is reading and compliments the material perfectly.

an inside and historical look at Broadmoof

I definitely learned quite a bit. I dont know that it is going to make a difference in my personal life, but I learned a lot.

Mental health in Britain

This is a great telling of the infamous Broadmoor Hospital for the criminaly insane. I enjoyed this listen. Check it out, you won't regret it.