The Hunter - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Such an eye opening podcast. I had no idea how rarely predators like this actually end up in jail! The statistics are horrifying. Parts of it were hard to listen to but the host thankfully didn’t get into graphic details and gave the victim some privacy. I’m glad I listened to the end. I love Lydia, stories of women fighting for justice always leave me feeling inspired.

I really wanted to like this because I generally love podcasts from the bbc. I did not love this, though. I really struggled knowing that a large part of it hinged on the mother (well-intentioned though she certainly was) identified and isolated victims of childhood sexual assault/trauma and she used those previously unnamed victims to try and build the case of her own family.

I genuinely hesitated to even write this review, but it was properly difficult to listen to an already-horrific tale of CSA with a tale of someone either appropriately or inappropriately (I’m not sure we could really know from the information given) finding additional victims without necessarily having the training to do so in a way that would be conducive to the investigation and that would, to the extent possible, mitigate the level of risk to the survivors.