Bellingcat founder and podcaster Eliot HigginsCredit:David Mirzoeff/PA Wire
Five years in the making, the first podcast from “open-source reporting” website Bellingcat is an in-depth investigation into the downing of Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine. The series is meticulously researched and expertly produced, making it a difficult listen at times. While Bellingcat founder and host Eliot Higgins is never sensational in his reporting, he is often thorough, describing the last moments of flight MH17 and the carnage of the crash site in graphic detail. Yet Higgins is far more interested in the cover-up that follows the crash than the crash itself. In many ways, this feels similar in tone to the recent HBO miniseries, Chernobyl; the podcast never shies away from gruesome details, but it is all in service “of finding the truth amongst the pack of lies” presented by the Russian government.
Comedian, writer and public speaker Deborah Frances-White.Credit:Daniel…
