Beyond Reasonable Doubt: #15 'According To Michael'

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🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the penultimate episode of the series, Chris talks to Michael Peterson himself. In a tense and unedited interview, Mr Peterson tells Chris what he thinks is wrong with the series, re-affirms his innocence and answers some of your listener questions. He also explains why - as heard in the last episode - why he bought three blowpokes while his original trial was still going on.

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0:00.0	Hello this is Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
0:01.9	Episode 15, According to Michael.
0:05.2	Okay, all right.
0:08.0	Beyond Reasonable Doubt on BBC Radio 5 live. Live. It is August.
0:14.0	It is August.
0:20.0	It is August 2017 and we are back in Durham.
0:26.0	As you will have heard in the last episode,
0:28.0	we were given interviews by Judge Hudson,
0:30.4	Kelly Colgan Adura,
0:32.0	the then-DA and now Judge Jim Hardin, we spoke to Larry Pollard again
0:35.9	who answered your Al- Theory questions and on our way to North Carolina we'd spoken at length
0:40.3	to Kathleen's sister Candice-Samparini. Our producer Mark had requested an interview with
0:46.2	Michael Peterson via his lawyer David Rudolph. No, was the polite reply.
0:51.1	Michael prefers to look to the future, not the past. Michael Peterson
0:56.2	then does an interview with the NBC show Dateline, so Mark tries again. Michael will not be giving an interview, says Mr Rudolf, though he nods to our
1:06.0	persistence. Now throughout the podcast, contributors have made a lot of statements about Michael
1:11.3	Peterson and many of the people we've spoken to
1:14.0	despite our best efforts to speak to people on his side thought he was guilty.
1:19.1	So it meant a lot to us to get his own views, his own rebuttal, but Mr Rudolf had said no, and our attempts to
1:26.6	contact the French film crew were ignored.
1:29.3	So we decided we should give Mr Peterson himself the chance to turn us down if he so wished and try to speak
1:34.8	to him directly.
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