Host Becky Milligan and Creative Director Rosie Pye share insights into the making of 'Hooked on Freddie', a UK original limited series from Wondery and Blanchard House.

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The series journeys back to the late 1980s to tell the gripping and controversial real-life story of a dolphin, Freddie, whose visit to Amble, Northumberland, UK, turns the sleepy seaside town upside down.

The six-part series follows Alan Cooper, a lifelong animal rights campaigner committed to freeing captive dolphins, who forms a deep bond with Freddie. But when Alan’s friendship with Freddie is turned against him – and he is accused of subjecting the dolphin to an unspeakable act – the rumours trigger a tabloid scandal that grips the nation and a legal case unlike any the courts have ever heard before. And Alan is in the fight of his life.

Becky Milligan (The Home Babies) first encountered, and even swam with, Freddie the dolphin as a student journalist, and has followed the strange case closely ever since. The series is produced with full access to all the main protagonists, who are sharing their stories for the first time.