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All our Radio Espial episodes are researched over months, sometimes years before broadcast. We feature occasional guests, but our primary output is case timelines and feature documentaries. Most of our crime cases include co-presenters Brian Goggin, and also (up to July 2024) Ciaran McConnell from Irish Cold Cases (Facebook Group) and Ireland's Vanishing Triangle (website).

Please be aware of our Disclaimer page. We live in a diverse world and explore many topics. Opinions, views and claims by guests are not necessarily those of the presenters and Radio Espial.

Radio Espial and its presenters believe in giving any guest extensive time on a topic when invited to participate. Our format, per episode, is open-ended. Some of our episodes may last an hour, others could run to two or more hours. That's how we roll at Radio Espial.

Unfortunately, some recent Radio Espial episodes and released shorts in the true crime and missing persons genres have meant that we can only provide highlights for podcast listeners. Much of that content is analysis-driven with an emphasis on show-and-tell and this provides a challenge for podcasting. However, all of the full output is available on our Youtube channel.

In August 2024, we opted to end our podcast audio output available through our Soundcloud partner platform. Episodes preceding this date will still be available for listening on Soundcloud.

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