As Far As I Can Recall is a solo narration podcast about language, truth, and deception — examined through thirteen years of operational policing experience. Not true crime. Not reconstruction. An honest examination of what language does when the stakes are highest, told by someone professionally trained to listen and academically equipped to explain what he heard.
As Far As I Can Recall
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Podcast Overview
As Far As I Can Recall is a solo narration podcast about language, truth, and deception — examined through thirteen years of operational policing experience. Not true crime. Not reconstruction. An honest examination of what language does when the stakes are highest, told by someone professionally trained to listen and academically equipped to explain what he heard.
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5/28/2026
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July 24, 2026
As Far As I Can Recall — Episode 7: The Moment The Language Shifted
<p>There's a sentence structure that appears in every conversation with someone defending their past.</p><p>If...then. Because...therefore. You have to understand that...which meant that...</p><p>The conditional. The explanation. The justification. The architecture built to make sense of something that doesn't make sense.</p><p>It's an argument. Not with you. With themselves.</p><p>One day, in a session, the sentence structure changes.</p><p>It stops being conditional. It stops being explanatory. It becomes simple.</p><p>I did this.</p><p>That's when you know they've stopped running.</p><p>This episode is about the moment when the defense ends. When someone stops arguing with themselves about why they did what they did and just accepts that they did it.</p><p>And what that acceptance sounds like in the language they use.</p><p></p><p>Follow the podcast on X: @AFAICRpodcast</p><p>Support via <a href="https://patreon.com/AsFarAsICanRecallPodcast?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a></p>
July 10, 2026
As Far As I Can Recall — Episode 6: The Platform
<p>A train station at night is a particular kind of place.</p><p>The light is wrong. Fluorescent. It flattens everything. The platforms are long and empty except for one or two people who shouldn't be standing still like that.</p><p>I worked British Transport Police. I learned to read decisions in how someone stands. Not what they're saying. Before they say anything.</p><p>This episode is about what happens when the frameworks you've learned for reading language break down completely. When someone isn't managing information. When someone is drowning.</p><p>And what it costs to listen to that sound night after night.</p><p></p><p>Follow the podcast on X: @AFAICRpodcast</p><p>Support via <a href="https://patreon.com/AsFarAsICanRecallPodcast?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a></p>
June 26, 2026
As Far As I Can Recall — Episode 5: The Clean Account
<p>There was a man who told me everything.</p><p>Not in an interview. In a statement. Written down. Typed. Formatted. A narrative of events that covered a three-day period with remarkable clarity. What he did. Where he went. Who he saw. Times, dates, locations. A complete account of his movements across seventy-two hours.</p><p>The statement was fifteen pages long.</p><p>And it was, in every structural sense, perfect.</p><p>Coherent. Chronological. Every event traced to the next in logical sequence. No contradictions. No gaps. No moments where the account stumbled or corrected itself or reached for a detail that wouldn't quite come into focus.</p><p>I knew, before I'd finished reading it, that he was lying.</p><p>Not because of what was in the statement. Because of what wasn't. Because of the very perfection of it. Because actual memory does not work that way.</p><p>This episode is about why a story that's too detailed, too organised, too perfectly structured, is sometimes the most suspicious thing in a room.</p><p>And what that suspicion is actually tracking.</p><p></p><p>Follow the podcast on X: @AFAICRpodcast</p><p>Support via <a href="https://patreon.com/AsFarAsICanRecallPodcast?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a></p>
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