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Kill List: Live

‘This has been the scariest, weirdest and certainly the most important work of my life. It’s been an investigation where lives were, at times, literally on the line, and one that has profoundly altered many of the people who were a part of it’. Carl Miller

The final minutes of the first episode of Carl Miller’s new Wondery and Novel podcast on stumbling across a secret online ‘kill list’ will stop you in your tracks. It’s a remarkable moment of storytelling and reporting – where Carl is forced to cold call innocent members of the public to tell them that someone wants them dead. From that moment the story just keeps getting more dramatic.

The podcast series, which has already reached number 1 in the UK, US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland Apple podcast charts, is an astonishing five-year investigation into the targeting of hundreds of innocent people on a murder-for-hire website. When the police are slow to investigate, Carl has to take it upon himself in a race against time to try and save innocent lives – potentially putting himself and others in danger.

In December 2024, Carl Miller and the show’s producers Caroline Thornham and Tom Wright brought Kill List live to the Intelligence Squared stage in London. Using audio clips, outtakes and sharing previously untold backstories about the making of the series they told this almost unbelievable story, revealed new twists and answered audience questions in a live Q&A.

This event is in partnership with Wondery and Novel


Speakers

Speaker

Carl Miller

Investigative journalist, researcher and host of Kill List


Research Director and co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at the think tank Demos. He presented the BBC's flagship technology programme 'Click' and is author of The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab which examines how new technologies change power dynamics in our societies. He was recently appointed to Chatham House's taskforce on Responsible AI.

Caroline Thornham

Senior Producer of Kill List at Novel


Caroline Thornham is a senior producer at Novel, specializing in narrative documentary podcasts. As one of the producers of Kill List, she spent nearly five years working on a global investigation into dark web hitman for hire websites, alongside Carl Miller. Her previous series include Extreme: Muscle Men (BBC Radio 4) and The Superhero Complex (iHeartRadio), featured in ‘Best Podcasts of 2022’ by The Guardian, The FT, Vulture, and TIME. Her work has been recognised by the Audio Production Awards and the Radio Academy ‘30 Under 30’. 

Tom Wright

Senior Producer of Kill List at Novel


Tom Wright is a senior producer for Novel. Prior to joining Novel in 2021, he spent 3 years as a journalist at the BBC. His work includes Mayday (BBC), Smoke Screen (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) and Stolen Hearts (Wondery). His podcasts have been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the ARIAs and winner of best investigative series at the Publisher Podcast Awards.
Chair

Jamie Bartlett

Author of several books about technology including the bestseller The Dark Net


Author of several books about technology, including the best-seller The Dark Net, which has been translated into 13 languages. He has also written and presented several hit podcasts, including The Missing Cryptoqueen and Believe in Magic on BBC Sounds .