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Ritually

What role do spiritual and wellness rituals play in our fast-paced, secular world? Join journalist-turned-guinea pig Nelufar Hedayat as she tries a new ritual in every episode. From following the Muslim call to prayer to sacred readings of Harry Potter, Nelufar dives in with the help of a different spiritual guide each week to see if these practices can actually make us feel better.

  • Podcast
  • 2023
  • ENG
  • 6 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 A Feminist Call to Prayer 37 min 18 sec
  • 02 An Exorcism to End Nightmares 33 min 59 sec

Gateway: Cocaine, Murder & Dirty Money in Europe

Innocent people are getting murdered. Lawyers live in safehouses, and a princess is in hiding. This is Europe today—it just might be the world’s next narco-state. Over the past decade, the historic European ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp have turned into global gateways for cocaine. Think Miami in the 1980s — but with even more drugs, and much shittier weather. In this six-part podcast series from Project Brazen, host Mitchell Prothero explores Europe’s cocaine crisis through the dramatic stories of cartel leaders, cops, journalists, and the victims caught in the middle. From RPG attacks on newspaper offices to the slaughter of entire families, the war on drugs has arrived on Europe’s shores. And a lot of people are making a lot of dirty money. Reporting from Antwerp and Amsterdam, Project Brazen goes deep inside this crazy under-reported story. Welcome to the hidden world of cocaine.

  • Podcast
  • 2023
  • ENG
  • 6 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 The Man For Whom the Underworld Shivers 21 min 29 sec
  • 02 The Belly, the Boss of Bosses 22 min 01 sec
  • 03 Bomb, Bomb, Bomberoni 17 min 52 sec
  • 04 The Crown Witness 19 min 50 sec
  • 05 On Bended Knee is No Way to be Free 19 min 52 sec
  • 06 Into the Bunker 19 min 05 sec

The Closer

The inside story of the deals that changed the world, as told by the people who know how it all went down.

The Closer returns this summer with six dramatic new stories of groundbreaking deals. An epic fight from soccer’s biggest stars, a private equity redemption story, the end of a toy empire, and so much more.

  • Podcast
  • 2023
  • ENG
  • 2 SEASONS

2 Seasons

Night of Show

Go backstage with Prince at the Super Bowl, The Rolling Stones as they face off with the Pope in Cuba, and Michael Jackson as he escapes to Bangkok amid a media frenzy.

In Night of Show, accomplished concert promoter Adam Wilkes joins music industry legends as they share behind-the-scenes stories about the pressures superstar artists faced when staging some of their biggest performances.

Co-hosted by Adam and Tom Wright, a NYT bestselling author, Night of Show gives listeners a backstage pass to never-before-heard stories about the biggest names in pop and rock!

  • Podcast
  • 2023
  • ENG
  • 5 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 Prince's Super Bowl Comeback Shakes the Music Industry – and Michael Jackson 26 min 49 sec
  • 02 The Rolling Stones Concert That Won Over Castro, Obama, and Even the Pope 28 min 52 sec
  • 03 The Beach Boys, Nancy Reagan, and a Ban on the 4th of July 23 min 12 sec
  • 04 Kenny G, Jackie Chan, and an Unlikely Hong Kong Controversy 23 min 39 sec
  • 05 Michael Jackson's Thai Showdown 20 min 57 sec

Dynamite Doug

For 50 years, Douglas Latchford was the world’s premier expert on Cambodian art, supplying priceless statues to Western museums and rich collectors. But his fame masked a dirty secret. Douglas had colluded with the Khmer Rouge, a genocidal regime, to loot Cambodia’s entire cultural heritage. As the country descended into bloodshed, Douglas stole almost everything. A network of art world cronies were on hand to help him sell these blood statues, including a senior curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. When a band of art sleuths get on their case, Douglas and his co-conspirators mount a rearguard action to save themselves. This is a story the art world doesn’t want told. Unlike the Elgin Marbles, and other brewing controversies over stolen art, our story isn’t ancient history. This tale is happening now.

  • Podcast
  • 2023
  • ENG
  • 6 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 Greatest Art Heist 25 min 31 sec
  • 02 Blood Statues 34 min 33 sec
  • 03 Unrequited Love 31 min 35 sec
  • 04 Art Sleuths 26 min 58 sec
  • 05 The Lion 32 min 04 sec
  • 06 "Curiosity Killed the Cat" 28 min 04 sec

The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome

Was it mass delusion or an attack? It’s been more than five years since U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials began experiencing a range of debilitating symptoms, from dizziness, to nausea, to disorientation. One common experience: hearing a mysterious high-pitched sound. Hosted by writer and journalist Nicky Woolf, The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome dives deep into an unfolding global mystery – the bizarre illness, principally affecting American diplomats and spies, which has come to be known as “Havana Syndrome.” We’ll hear from the cast of characters who inhabit this world; scientists, doctors, government officials, and victims, traveling from Washington, D.C. to London, to the streets of Havana – and, with their help, begin to piece the evidence together. What we uncover is the thrilling possibility that all the explanations might be true at the same time — the weapon, the hysteria, and even fraud.

  • Podcast
  • 2023
  • ENG
  • 8 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 Jericho 29 min 25 sec
  • 02 The Immaculate Concussion 34 min 23 sec
  • 03 Speak of the Devil 37 min 36 sec
  • 04 The Frey Effect 35 min 36 sec
  • 05 The Great British Nuke Off 32 min 25 sec
  • 06 A Silent Injury 35 min 30 sec

Corinna and the King

Corinna and the King is the unbelievable true story of a love affair that brought the Spanish royal family to its knees. When Corinna, a worldly and well-connected businesswoman, fell in love with Juan Carlos I, the king of Spain, he seemed too big to fail. Their secret romance stretched across continents, but its unraveling would open a window into a dangerous world of greed, corruption, and crime. Vast pools of hidden wealth; international espionage and conspiracy; scandal, elephant hunting, and unstoppable lust…all tracing back to one of the most secretive royalties in the world.

  • Podcast
  • 2022
  • ENG & ESP
  • 8 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 La Casita 35 min 16 sec
  • 02 Court of Miracles 38 min 10 sec
  • 03 Envidia 41 min 46 sec
  • 04 Killing Elephants 37 min 10 sec
  • 05 Fake Christmas 41 min 28 sec
  • 06 Blood is Thicker 39 min 58 sec
  • 07 A Dark Soul 44 min 37 sec
  • 08 Hell-bent 38 min 48 sec

People Like Us

People Like Us is a pathbreaking conversation show hosted by award winning journalist Kim Ghattas, bringing people together to connect the dots between today’s Middle East and the world, how it works and why it matters to everyone, wherever they are.

In the first season of the show, Kim talks to film makers, activists, authors, refugees, politicians, even a sexologist, exploring a pressing theme in every episode, from Roe v. Wade to impunity in Syria and Ukraine, bringing a fresh, distinctive perspective on current events, as well socio-economic and cultural trends. Anchored in Kim’s home city of Beirut, the show pushes the envelope by discussing the big questions, uncovering surprising connections and the powerful personal stories of the speakers, doers, movers and shakers from across the region, as well as ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It will unpack the key issues that matter in the Arab world but resonate with a global audience, connecting the dots that bind people everywhere, from Beirut to Belfast, from Kabul to Hong Kong.

People Like Us is the show that makes sense of the Middle East and the world.

  • Podcast
  • 2022
  • ENG
  • 6 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 What The Hell Happened? 45 min 06 sec
  • 02 Netflix, Boundaries and Film in the Arab World 43 min 35 sec
  • 03 Impunity from Syria to Ukraine 43 min 0 sec
  • 04 Roe v. Wade v. Women Everywhere 34 min 58 sec
  • 05 Narrating the Middle East 40 min 28 sec
  • 06 The Interview: Jeffrey Feltman 44 min 0 sec

Kabul Falling

On August 15, 2021, the Taliban regained control of Kabul, nearly 20 years after Coalition Forces had cast them out of power. The takeover sent shockwaves throughout the country and the international community. It forced thousands of Afghans to leave their old lives behind and embark on a hellish journey for survival.

In this gripping, eight-episode narrative brought to you by Project Brazen, Afghans themselves will tell you how it happened. You’ll hear how they maneuvered their way through panicked crowds, waded through sewage in desperate attempts to get into the Kabul airport, withstood beatings and torture, and finally, if they were lucky, boarded a flight to the unknown.

This is the story of a home ripped apart — and of a courageous new beginning.

  • Podcast
  • 2022
  • ENG
  • 8 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 The Fall: Escape from Afghanistan Begins 30 min 46 sec
  • 02 A Knock at the Door: The Taliban’s Revenge 33 min 29 sec
  • 03 The Fortress: Life or Death in Afghanistan via WhatsApp 37 min 17 sec
  • 04 The Explosion: Bombing at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan 32 min 17 sec
  • 05 Land Route: Women of Afghanistan Find New Ways to Escape 35 min 03 sec
  • 06 Terrible House: Survival in the Taliban’s Afghanistan 33 min 32 sec
  • 07 Why I Fight: a Taliban Fighter Speaks From Afghanistan 36 min 22 sec
  • 08 Still Falling: Afghanistan, One Year Later 51 min 48 sec

Hidden Worlds

Are you being watched? Project Brazen takes you behind the curtain to see the hidden world of private surveillance in London.

  • Documentary
  • 2022
  • Pilot

Resistance: Stories from Ukraine

  • Podcast
  • 2022
  • ENG

Fat Leonard

An explosive tale about the defense contractor who bribed navy officers with cash, prostitutes and luxury items in return for multi-million-dollar deals. In a PROJECT BRAZEN ORIGINALS nine-part podcast, with exclusive access to Fat Leonard himself, we reveal the true story of the misogynistic men at the heart of the Navy and the brave women who brought them down.

  • Podcast
  • 2021
  • ENG
  • 9 EPS

Episodes

  • 01 Paper Ships 35 min 16 sec
  • 02 Ring of Steel 30 min 56 sec
  • 03 Paula 32 min 05 sec
  • 04 The Braveheart 27 min 53 sec
  • 05 Marcy 32 min 05 sec
  • 06 Morena 28 min 15 sec
  • 07 Suppos 33 min 02 sec
  • 08 The Sting 35 min 13 sec
  • 09 Different Spanks 38 min 20 sec

Billion Dollar Whale

NYT bestselller about the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world — soon to be adapted for TV.

  • Hachette Books
  • 2018
  • ENG
  • 410 PGS

More Books

The Rebel and The Kingdom

  • Crown
  • 2022
  • ENG
  • 288 PGS

Blood and Oil

  • Hachette Books
  • 2020
  • ENG
  • 368 PGS