A gripping account of life inside Britain’s highest security hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor – past, present and future – as told by a selection of staff and patients themselves.

Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863, it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking and appalling crimes in history.

The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high-security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access, Executive Producer Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a picture of life in Broadmoor, after spending nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside. Based on their experiences as well as interviews with the staff that work there – including nurses, psychiatrists, therapists, security guards – and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date.

Inside Broadmoor: Up close and personal with Britain’s most dangerous criminals is published by Bonnier.