Just after the
IAFL conference in Cardiff, the BBC aired a documentary titled "Textual Evidence". It takes a look at several cases, many quite high profile, and looks to see how forensic linguistics can provide evidence toward guilt or innocence. It's fascinating to listen to for anyone.
For a while, the BBC was hosting a copy in their archives. However, apparently they took it down after a while. Due to the intense interest of many members of the
Forensic Linguistics list, I have decided to host a copy on my server so that the documentary is not lost. Thanks to John Olson of the
Forensic Linguistics Institute and Peter French of
J P French Associates for providing me with the original audio.
Though I have a substantial amount of bandwidth available for this (250GB/mo), it still would be the best idea if you would download the files. If the bandwidth starts getting short, I will mirror the files on another server that has a similar amount of bandwidth available.
There are several formats. Please select the version you would like to download, right click on the link and select "Save as..." or "Save link as...", depending on your browser.
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