Hometown: A Killing Podcast
Award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar moves back to his hometown of Huddersfield to cover the death of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub but realises that there is a much bigger story in town
Award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar moves back to his hometown of Huddersfield to cover the death of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub but realises that there is a much bigger story in town.
Credits
Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer and Sound Engineer: Pete Sale
Head of Production: Stephanie Edwards
Additional Production: Tom Hinckley
Theme Music: Nainita Desai
Executive Producer for Forest: Jeremy Lee
Commissioning Assistant Producer: Emmanuella Kwenortey
Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins
Commissioning Editor: Jason Phipps
Hometown is a Forest production for BBC Sounds
Episodes to download
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6: The Death Threats
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Mobeen receives a death threat as the violence in West Yorkshire takes a darker turn.
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5: The Shame
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Mobeen explores if the heroin trade in West Yorkshire is his community’s shameful secret
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2: The Father
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Mobeen investigates rumours but is Yassar’s father trying to manipulate what he writes?
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1: The Shooting
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Journalist Mobeen Azhar returns to Huddersfield to write about the death of Yassar Yaqub.
