Sky is aiming to piggy-back the success of the global hit podcast Serial with its own five-part investigation into a man on death row in the US.
Sky News Radio, which supplies news to commercial radio stations, has launched a podcast series about Richard Glossip who is facing death by lethal injection on 16 September.
The series is called Another Dead Man Walking, a nod to Hollywood actor Susan Sarandon who is campaigning for a stay of execution for Glossip, whom she has described as “clearly innocent”.
Sarandon stars in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking in which she portrays a nun who strikes up a relationship with a death-row inmate, played by Sean Penn.
“In the podcasts, I explain how I stumbled across the case while researching the death penalty in the United States, and how Glossip was so happy that someone was taking such an interest that he invited me to witness his death,” said Ian Woods, special correspondent at Sky News. “At that time, Richard Glossip’s case had attracted little attention, even in Oklahoma.”
Sky’s podcast series apes the format and style employed in Sarah Koenig’s hugely successful Serial, which became a global hit when it revisited the 1999 case of murdered Baltimore teenager Hae Min Lee.
