Death in Ice Valley

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Death in Ice Valley is a 2018 true crime podcast produced by NRK, the Norwegian radio and television public broadcasting company and BBC World Service. It is authored by Marit Higraff, a Norwegian investigative journalist with NRK, and Neil McCarthy, documentary producer with BBC.[1][2][3] The podcast follows a two-year investigation into the Isdal Woman case, concerning an unknown woman whose burned body was found in western Norway in 1970. It instigated a crowd-sourcing campaign for new leads in the investigation, gathered around the eponymous Facebook group run by World Service editor Anna Doble and journalist Beth Ryder.[4]

Death in Ice Valley
Presentation
Hosted byMarit Higraff and Neil McCarthy
Genrenews commentary podcast Edit this on Wikidata
Production
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes12
Publication
Original release26th March 2018 –
06th June 2021
Ratings4.513513513513513/5 Edit this on Wikidata
Related
Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h Edit this on Wikidata

Higraff makes use of modern forms of journalism, mostly podcasting.[5] She is one of the leading experts on the case of the Isdal Woman and successfully encouraged the Bergen Police to reopen the case in 2016.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "BBC - - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Death in Ice Valley: The new true crime podcast that's the BBC's answer to Serial". The Independent. 17 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. ^ "The Isdalen Mystery". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). 21 November 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  4. ^ "How the crowdsourced investigation 'Death in Ice Valley' became the podcast of the year". The Drum. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Marit Higraff Talks Journalism, Storytelling, and "Death in Ice Valley"". Wil Williams Reviews. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  6. ^ "BBC World Service - Death in Ice Valley, Marit Higraff on the quest to identify the 'Isdal woman'". BBC. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
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