Tim Roxburgh

Sydney

Executive Producer, True Crime Audio at ABC News (Australia)

Supervising and script editing narrative non-fiction podcasts at the ABC. Unravel: Firebomb, The Eleventh, Trace. Thoughts mine, not the ABC's.

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The boss you can't escape from

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Johanna Marie |Simon Wallace |Tim Jenkins | +3 more

TIM ROXBURGH: Hey Tim Roxburgh here with Background Briefing. This episode we're trying to get to the bottom of why some workers are suffering through conditions most Australians would just never tolerate? And why are they doing it so quietly... a lot of them without ever speaking up? To find out... we're heading up north... to meet some people who've been asking those same questions for a decade or more.
'If I can't get my house fixed, I'm homeless'

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Alice Brennan |Tim Roxburgh |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Gina McKeon | +2 more

Even after the black summer Australians have just endured, it's not bushfires that's keeping the nation's insurers awake at night. Climate change is bringing cyclones further south - towards highly populated areas like Brisbane, the Gold Coast and northern NSW. Insurers are warning that unless the Federal Government takes drastic action, parts of the country may even become uninsurable. And as Geoff Thompson discovers, it's not some threat on the horizon - the conditions are already here.
450 days trapped on a cargo ship

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Benjamin Sveen |Connie Agius |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Tim Jenkins | +2 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Hi there, Alice Brennan here, welcome to Background Briefing. This week we are setting sail on the high seas. RONBERT BIBAT: We are start now scraping the dust. Chipping the rust. Until after chipping we sweeping up, after sweeping we mop. ALICE BRENNAN: Men in blue overalls and white hard hats look like mini-figures swallowed by a giant mechanical beast. Ridged red walls of steel tower around them - 17 metres high. RONBERT BIBAT: Yes.
The biggest financial scandal you've never heard of

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Isabella Tropiano |Alex Mann | +1 more

TIM ROXBURGH: Tim Roxburgh here for Background Briefing. Before we start this episode a quick update on one of our previous big investigations. Earlier this year we ran a two part series called The Base tapes... it revealed how a global white supremacist group was targeting young Australians for recruitment. This week, the federal government has listed that group, The Base, as a terrorist organisation.
The Ponzi scheme that preyed on faith

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Meghna Bali |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Simon Branthwaite |Tim Roxburgh | +1 more

ALICE BRENNAN: A woman serves tea and snacks to a lounge full of people in Epping... in north-west Sydney. She's hosting 8 people today-- but she doesn't actually know any of them. They could be taxi drivers, kitchen-hands, truckies...labourers. One man has brought them all together....a tall, bearded Australian guy... And he's about to sell them a dream. HARPREET SINGH SAHNI: This is the safest investment on the earth right now!ALICE BRENNAN: That guy... is Harpreet Singh Sahni.
The scientists questioning a serial murder case

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Rachael Brown |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Que Nguyen |Alex Mann | +1 more

TIM ROXBURGH: There's that old saying that prisons are full of people who'll tell you, they're innocent. But what if some, actually are? Advances in science and medicine are raising doubts about old convictions...but the question is: can the justice system keep pace? That's what this episode is about. And this story starts in a Sydney courtroom. LAWYER: your honour, before I open , I may tender some additional documents...
The killer we've invited into the lounge room

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Alison Branley |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Isabella Tropiano |Tim Roxburgh | +1 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Hey there, welcome to Background Briefing I am Alice Brennan and today I'm sitting somewhere very special with reporter Alison Branley. Hi Alison. ALISON BRANLEY: Hello Alice. ALICE BRENNAN: Where are we? ALISON BRANLEY: We are sitting beside a lovely wood fire. ALICE BRENNAN: Hmm and it is lovely it's got a couple of logs on it and it's generating some good heat right. ALISON BRANLEY: Yeah It was a little more complicated than we thought to build but we've got it going now.
Untouchable Assets | Part 2

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Benjamin Sveen |Dunja Karagic |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Isabella Tropiano | +3 more

(crowd cheering)MARIO CHRISTODOULOU: I'm watching the homecoming of a local hero. One of the biggest crowds I've ever seen is packed inside a New Jersey stadium. They're all here to see one man... the boss. It's July 2008... and people are screaming, jumping up and down and recording with their mobile phones. There's almost a religious fervour in the air. (Bruce Springsteen singing)And Bruce Springsteen? He's On Fire. Every single person in this crowd was/is lucky to be there.
How fracking could threaten Australia's Paris target

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Jane Bardon |Benjamin Sveen |Simon Branthwaite |Leila Shunnar |Tim Roxburgh |Alice Brennan

ALICE BRENNAN: Hey there and welcome to Background Briefing. I'm Alice Brennan. Before we get started this week, I want to send a quick shout-out to everyone who gave us a rating or review last week. It really helps us reach a bigger audience. And if you haven't had a chance yet, please go to where you get your podcasts and tell us what you think. (Sound of burning foliage)ALICE BRENNAN: Let's step back in time to last July.
Welcome to Tent City, the underside of WA's coronavirus success story

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Alex Mann |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |John Jacobs |Tim Roxburgh | +1 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Alice Brennan here. Welcome to Background Briefing. In a little conference room in the centre of Perth's CBD a debate is about to get underway. MC: Couple of moments before we start, ladies and gentlemen, if you do wish to get a cup of tea, drink, biscuit. Now's your time, now's your time. ALICE BRENNAN: As the MC takes the stage again, the crowd goes quiet. Seven people take their seats behind the MC.