Some phrases sound careful.

As far as I can recall. To the best of my knowledge. I believe that's correct.

What they actually sound like, to someone trained to listen, is a door being quietly locked from the inside.

As Far As I Can Recall is a podcast about language, truth, and deception. Thirteen years of operational policing across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and British Transport Police. Time in CID. Rehabilitation work with men serving custodial sentences. A linguistics degree.

What all of that gives you, eventually, is the ability to hear the gap between what someone says and what they mean.

This podcast is about what lives in that gap.

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