A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Chris Atkins

Chris Atkins is a documentary maker who went to prison for tax fraud in 2016. He spent nine months in HMP Wandsworth, one of the most dangerous prisons in the UK, and has written about his surreal experiences in his bestselling book A Bit of a Stretch. After his release he interviewed 20 ex-prisoners about their time in jail, and turned the recordings into season 1 of this podcast. Their stories are shocking, uplifting, heartbreaking, hilarious, and often downright weird, taking you headfirst into the biggest prison crisis in history. It reveals a collapsing system that is failing victims and wider society, and...

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A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Episodes (19)

Jan 15, 2025 Ladies' Night
Aug 2, 2024 Cold in Your Bones
Jul 26, 2024 Sing When You're Winning

A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Jan 15, 2025
26 minutes
59 MB

Most of the other episodes are about men, so to find out more about the experiences of women in the system Chris meets Jules, a young woman who went to prison for GBH aged just 20. She got a five year sentence, the same as Chris, and they discuss the intriguing similarities and differences between male and female prisons, from accessing make up to navigating the politics of wing romances. Jules worked hard on herself inside and emerged a better person and a trained personal instructor. But women face additional problems inside, and they talk about the pain of female prisoners...

A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Ladies' Night

Chris Atkins

00:00 -25:48