The Trapped
4.5/5
Critic Rating
They’re living in the worst conditions imaginable and have no way out. And it’s the British state that’s keeping them there. ITV News Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt exposes the UK’s dirty secret and confronts the people responsible. But how are people trapped all over Britain? Why can't they get out? And what's being done to change it? Daniel embarks on a four-year-long investigation to find out, only to discover some truly shocking answers. So come see the country that you really live in...Head to www.thetrapped.co.uk to hear the full series and see the visu...
Critic Reviews
Score: 4
Patricia Nicol • The Times UK • Jan 26, 2025
"Daniel Hewitt’s enraged, eye-opening 2024 podcast for ITV News about the thousands housed in slumlike conditions across Britain, most of them hard-working families paying rent. Hewitt’s compassionate, campaigning journalism takes him from unfit homes to parliamentary select committees, ministers’ meetings and through three changes of prime minister. You sense — and hope — he’s only just begun. A necessary, sobering listen."
Score: 5
Rachel Cunliffe • New Statesman • Nov 25, 2024
"The Trapped is an eight-part series that reveals – in horrifying detail – exactly what they found next. The descriptions are so vivid and harrowing you don’t need much imagination to picture the reality for the people who have been “left to rot like the walls around them” in properties not fit for animals, let alone human habitation. This isn’t a story about housing, Hewitt tells us. “It’s a story about power.”…"
