Episodes
A video of an extrajudicial killing haunts Aliaume Leroy - but how do you get to the truth from a short film posted on social media?Aliaume found himself banding together with open source investigators across the world in a race to uncover...
Back in 2000 Jim DeRogatis received a fax that would change the course of his career forever.This is the story of how one journalist stayed on a story for decades, continuing to report allegations of abuse while the rest of the world cover...
Brexit. It is all anyone is talking about. But while politicians argue and wring their hands, what is going on behind the scenes?Alice Ross and Lawrence Carter, part of Greenpeace's Unearthed team, set out to find out and discovered one way tha...
Madlen Davies has been reporting on a concerning topic for years: the rise of antibiotic resistance and superbugs. Her reporting started in the UK but she soon realised she would need to travel further to get the real story. Here she talks about one...
Ashley Fantz often covers police press conferences as part of her day job at CNN. But a few years ago she would attend one that would set her on a months long journey, forensically piecing together the evidence to reveal the systematic destruction of v...
Ep.28 W1GWhat connects a wide-screen TV in the toilet, a faked blockbuster film and an elaborate Las Vegas heist? Turns out... it's one address in central London.This is the story of how Oliver Bullough followed a tangle of financial crimes ba...
Ep.27 MotherLorna Tucker doesn’t think of herself as a journalist, more of a collector of stories. So years ago, when she stumbled on a story that needed to be told, she knew she wouldn’t stop until the truth came out.This is how she helped to docu...
Shiv Malik thought he was onto something special. He’d been working with a source who was offering incredible insights into the UK terrorist scene. And now, this same source was saying he was ready to turn his back on his past life and he wanted Shiv t...
A court case, a mysterious witness and an envelope at the Post Office... this is the story of how Sam Bungey and Jennifer Ford unravelled a decade old murder case.Recorded in front of a live audience as part of Audible's Spoken Worlds Festival-...
In The Dark, the US podcast team, finished their acclaimed first series with a request: they wanted to hear what their audience thought they should be investigating next. And there, buried in the hundreds of responses they got was a simple, short email...
Three continents, 80 interviews and an investigation that took more than a decade. This is the story of how Cam Simpson uncovered one of the great David vs. Goliath stories of our time.In this episode, Cam wrestles with duplicitous sources, flies ac...
New Yorker writer Alexis Okeowo wants to tell stories differently. Her new book A Moonless Starless Sky, tells the stories of people affected by extremism in Africa.In this episode, Alexis tells us how she came to find two of the main characters of ...