ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Delve into the dark heart of Glasgow, a city with history steeped in mystery and violence. A Dark City takes you behind the headlines to explore the city's most notorious murders - stories that shocked the nation, shattered communities and left scars that still linger. From cold blooded killers to infamous gangland slayings, we uncover the chilling details, the victims stories and the impact on Glasgow's streets.
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Average audio length:
23 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
49 episodes
since Jan. 13, 2025
episodic
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A city’s darkest stories do not just happen in closes and back rooms, they end up in court. We take you to Glasgow’s High Court of Justiciary on the Saltmarket, the neoclassical landmark with the vast Doric Portico that has watched two centuries of Scottish criminal justice unfold. Built from early…
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A judge calls him a danger to society. Prosecutors call him a killer. A jury says not guilty and Paul Ferris walks out of the High Court in Glasgow smiling at the cameras. That moment is the door into a much bigger story about Glasgow’s underworld, and what happens when a city’s worst conditions ha…
A fortified house on a quiet Glasgow street, bulletproof glass facing the road, and a man inside who believes nobody can reach him. The Ponderosa is more than a home, it is Arthur Thompson’s statement to the city: power made visible. We tell the full story of the figure whose name threads through d…
One night in Milton. A cocaine consignment disappears. And Glasgow’s most destructive modern feud begins. We’re telling the story of how Eddie Lyons Sr, an operator who builds power through connections rather than postcode loyalty, makes the decision that turns a profitable criminal network into th…
Thirteen shots in a supermarket car park is the kind of detail you never forget, especially when it happens in broad daylight with families loading shopping into their boots. We start there, with the killing of Kevin Carroll, a key Daniel crime family enforcer, and follow the chain of planning, sur…
He didn’t seek fame, he didn’t taunt police, and he didn’t leave neat clues behind. For years, an unknown predator moved through Glasgow Southside with enough local knowledge to isolate women, vanish into familiar streets, and leave a whole community second-guessing ordinary journeys home. The name…
A bomb inside Glasgow High Court. A trial collapsing under rubble. And at the centre of it, not a mythic movie villain but a real man who helped invent modern organised crime in the city: Walter Norval. We follow his story from the Gallowgate, where illegal gambling and pub power teach him how mone…
A gang war can look like noise from a distance, but up close it becomes a map of a city’s pressures. We take you into interwar Glasgow, where overcrowded tenements, hard industrial work and tight-knit districts create the conditions for razor gangs to thrive. When status is scarce and the future fe…
A woman leaves her mum’s birthday gathering in Glasgow, says she will be back shortly, and is never seen again. What follows is the Linda Spence case: a rare kind of Scottish true crime story where the facts are horrific, the evidence is painstaking, and the most important piece of closure is still…
£126 million on paper. About £118,649.50 in assets the Crown can actually seize. That single gap tells you almost everything about how modern organised crime works, and why so many “big wins” still leave the real money moving in the dark.We follow the rise and fall of James “The Don” White, the lie…
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