ADRIAN CHILES 14JAN22

29th July 1981. Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer and the eyes of the world are on London. In the crowd an eight-year-old boy watches the celebrations. An hour later he is missing. Despite a huge police search young Vishal Mehrotra is never seen alive again. Forty years on, and despite the emergence of new evidence, no-one has been brought to justice for what happened to Vishal and the police appear to have exhausted all their leads. Then one day, as the world is going into lockdown in 2020, a BBC local reporter receives a secretive message from a person who says they have worked within the police – they tell the reporter they’ve seen something extraordinary that could blow the case wide open.

That call sets in motion an epic true story - an astonishing podcast investigation, three years in the making, which has consequences no-one could have imagined. The child’s family have one last chance to find out what happened to their boy and put decades of grief and guilt to rest. This is their story.

The disappearance of Vishal Mehrotra is a case that haunts our age. It has fallen through the cracks so many times in the past 40 years – the cracks of our justice system, of our collective attention, of who we choose to listen to and who we don’t. In this extraordinary podcast series Vishal’s 30-year-old half-brother Suchin Mehrotra and investigative reporter Colin Campbell will finally set out to gather the pieces and try to get some answers. What they uncover takes them deep into the disturbing underworld of what appears to be a completely separate crime - and sends them halfway across the globe in a search for the truth. Alongside a deeply moving personal story of the effect of this tragedy on one family across generations, what also emerges is a picture of all of us and the world we live in now.

VISHAL PROMO (BBC SOUNDS VERSION) 30"

Filmed and told by many of the citizens of Mariupol, this powerful documentary records how in a little under three months, residents of what was a thriving Ukrainian city witnessed the deaths of women and children in a maternity hospital and bodies left abandoned on the streets, as well as the daring escapes by survivors.

Stream the story of their loss, bravery, and determination with BBC Select on Amazon @PrimeVideo, @theRokuChannel, or @AppleTV.

'MARIUPOL: THE PEOPLE'S STORY' TRAIL (BBC SELECT VERSION) 30"

Documentary about life on a Dutch Barge moored on the River Thames, with stand-up comedian Jack Russell.

Produced by Jenny Caynes & Simon Houlihan as part of the BBC Radio series "A Sense of Place" 2002

A Sense of Place - It's A Funny Old Life - BBC Radio 4

I was recording a voiceover with Simon Houlihan (Google him to book him for a VO session) but we got sidetracked with allsortsa shit.

'Simon' by Kerry McCarpet

Trail for 'Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive' on The Scott Mills Show - BBC Radio 1.

Written and Produced by Simon Houlihan.

Voiced by Rob Brydon.

Trail for 'Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive' on The Scott Mills Show - BBC Radio 1

Trail for 'I'm With Stupid' on The Jo Whiley Show - BBC Radio 1

Trail for 'The Secret Life of Mrs Beaton' on BBC Radio 4's 'Today'

Trail for 'Fear of Fanny' on Steve Wright in the Afternoon - BBC Radio 2

Written and Produced by Simon Houlihan.

Voiced by Rob Brydon.

BBC Radio 1 on 4th July 2006.

Trail for 'Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive' BBC Radio 1 with JK & Joel

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Comedy Promoter, Radio Producer, Videographer, Voiceover. Eton, Windsor, UK. 

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