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Raphael Rowe

Raphael Rowe

Investigative Reporter, Presenter & Host, Second Chance

Raphael Rowe is a journalist, investigative reporter and presenter who is best known for hosting the Netflix series ‘Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons’.  

  Raphael has a powerful and unique life story, having spent 12 years in a maximum security prison for crimes he did not commit – his life sentence and convictions for murder and robberies were overturned by the Court of Appeal in 2000. Raphael documented his fascinating life story in his 2020 autobiography Notorious. 

  Less than a year after his release, Raphael began a new career as a journalist and broadcast reporter for the BBC, for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. He later moved to television, reporting in 2003 for BBC One’s 6 O’Clock News.  

Raphael’s investigative journalism work has taken him to some of the world’s most dangerous places; having smuggled diamonds, secretly filmed Congolese militia rebels, risking his own life to save an orangutan whilst reporting on illegal international logging and deforestation.  

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