The Makings Of A Murderer - Fatal Mistake

Donal MacIntyre brings The Makings Of A Murderer - Fatal Mistake to the Assembly Rooms on Sunday 3 October 2027. He's an investigative broadcaster, and the show is built around true-crime cases that he unravels on stage, focusing on the tiny mistakes that ended up exposing killers who had almost got away with murder.

If you follow true crime, you know the pattern: a carefully planned crime, a trail that goes cold, and then one small slip — a misplaced item, a contradiction in a story, a detail that doesn't quite fit — that brings the whole thing down. That's the thread MacIntyre pulls on here, taking those cases and working through them in front of a live audience. It's less about the crime itself and more about the unraveling, the way a single error can undo months or years of careful cover-up.

The venue is the Assembly Rooms on George Street, one of Edinburgh's largest multi-purpose event spaces. It's a place that's been at the heart of the city for more than two centuries, and it's had a fair few lives in that time — it's hosted royalty and celebrity alike and played its part in two world wars. The interior still holds that old-world feel, with enormous crystal chandeliers, gleaming gold leaf and giant gilt mirrors, though it was given a major redevelopment that finished in 2012, so the latest technology sits alongside the period detail. The Ballroom, Music Hall, Drawing Rooms and Crush Hall are the most stunning spaces left from its original layout.

So, it's Donal MacIntyre on stage at the Assembly Rooms on 3 October 2027, working through true-crime cases and the mistakes that broke them.