{"id":64119,"date":"2026-11-06T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=64119"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:36:18","slug":"life-unfiltered-rob-cullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=64119","title":{"rendered":"LIFE Unfiltered &#8211; Rob Cullen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Unfiltered - Rob Cullen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flife-unfiltered-rob-cullen%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What makes someone turn to crime? And once they&#8217;ve served their sentence, how much of their past should define their future?<\/p>\n<p>This week on Life Unfiltered Maria McHale was joined by former prisoner Rob Cullen, who began taking drugs at 12 and went on to become involved in addiction, violence and serious crime, eventually receiving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Today Rob is studying a PhD in Sociology after completing his MSc in Criminology and is working with Success Stories, challenging men&#8217;s attitudes towards masculinity and violence. Listen back here.<\/p>\n<p>Rob&#8217;s contact details: <a class=\"x1bvjpef x1d5sz71 x1bp1kas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bobc1991\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-sentry-component=\"renderLinkNode\" data-sentry-source-file=\"index.jsx\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bobc1991\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes someone turn to crime? And once they&#8217;ve served their sentence, how much of their past should define their future? This week on Life Unfiltered Maria McHale was joined by former prisoner Rob Cullen, who began taking drugs at 12 and went on to become involved in addiction, violence and serious crime, eventually receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7231,20369,28849,26438,27900,31571,21605],"class_list":["post-64119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-addiction","tag-crime","tag-lifeunfiltered","tag-maria-mchale","tag-masculinity","tag-rob-cullen","tag-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64121,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64119\/revisions\/64121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}