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Wrong Castle

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A gaming, nerd culture, punch dancing wrecking crew. Having the force of 1000 Mitsubishi X-2 fighter jets, making crime think twice about robbing fatherless toddlers. (comparable to putting your ear to the sky, closing your eyes tight and hearing Randy Savage body slam Jesus through a Slim Jim.)
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Castle Han Media

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In this cerebral sci-fi audio drama, follow the steps of an ongoing experiment and its largely willing participants. As they grapple with their involvement, they must piece together who they are, what they're doing, and what the experiment truly entails: all while struggling with the mysteries of their past and the uncertainty of their present.
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Says Who?

Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

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In 2016, two friends—and author and a journalist--sat down to ride through the final weeks of the Presidential election by talking to the journalists covering it. They thought they were doing eight episodes. They were wrong. What started as a short trip has become a long and strange journey. They’ve gotten weird. They’ve made friends along the way. Mostly, the weird part, though. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson, and legendary publisher of Punk Planet Magazine Dan Si ...
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Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

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Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the Cali ...
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Times Investigates brings you award-winning investigative and true crime podcasts from The Times and The Sunday Times. From war zones to suburban homes, and from Nazi collaborators to cult leaders, our podcasts go further than any other to uncover the truth. In season one, veteran war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of John Cantlie, who was kidnapped by Islamic State. In season two, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the failings, rivalries and ...
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Jerry & Amanda from Warning! You Will Be Offended! are back with an all new podcast: Wickedly Weird with Jerry & Amanda. each episode, Jerry will tell Amanda a wickedly weird story with a strange plot twist that she has never heard to get her honest reaction. What could possibly go wrong?
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Your AI Roadmap

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek

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Your AI Roadmap the podcast is on a mission to decrease fluffy HYPE and talk to the people actually building AI. Anyone can build in AI. Including you. Whether you’re terrified or excited, there’s been no better time than today to dive in! Now is the time to be curious and future-proof your career and ... ultimately your income. This podcast isn't about white dudes patting themselves on the back, this is about you and me and ALL the paths into cool projects around the world! What's next on y ...
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What textures do you miss in prison? How is menopause handled behind bars? What makes you feel dignified? These are just some of the questions we collected from listeners on our live tour this summer through the South and Midwest. But instead of taking these questions back to California, we got them answered on the road. Thank you to everyone we ta…
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OK yes that thing happened, you know the one. But did you hear about the scuba diver thief at Disney World???? Maureen has a book out, awful news happened, and $10k is missing from a paddleboat in Disney Springs. This certainly sounds like an episode of Says Who, doesn't it. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at p…
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Pennant money reshaped not only Jamaica, but also modern Britain. In Wales, it financed the vast Penrhyn slate quarry, built villages, and paid for the castle that April-Louise visits alongside her father, Gil. Together, they face the portraits of men who enslaved their ancestors, and ask what it would take for Britain to stop looking away. Host: B…
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April-Louise Pennant’s grandparents were part of the Windrush Generation, emigrating from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s. Visiting a local university archive to discover the significance of her Welsh surname, she discovers the Jamaica Papers - a collection of plantation records donated by the Pennants, which reveal a confronting truth. Host:…
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Arguments still rage about Britain’s role in the slave trade, but the evidence of that dark past is written across the faces of some of the country’s wealthiest stately homes. Journalists Brenna Daldorph and David Aaronovitch face facts to look behind the grandeur and gold-leaf exteriors of one - Penrhyn Castle in North Wales - to uncover the bruta…
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Nine years ago Maureen and Dan sat down to record an eight episode podcast. Mistakes were made. Here they are, 395 episodes later, while Maureen is in the midst of finishing yet another book, to talk about... whatever fresh hell we all find ourselves in. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho…
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Adnan Oktar is behind bars but some of his followers still believe. Louise meets his devotees, listens to their claims of injustice and comes to terms with the power Oktar still wields from behind bars. Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent at The Sunday Times. Clips: Al-Jazeera, CNBC, Sky News, CNN. If you, or someone you know, has bee…
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The fortress walls begin to crumble. Survivors describe suffering sexual abuse and financial crimes while cult insiders help the authorities bring Adnan Oktar down. Accompanied by a former ‘kitten’, Louise revisits the night the police finally descended on Oktar’s hilltop compound Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent at The Sunday Time…
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Away from the TV cameras, Adnan Oktar reigns over a den of secrecy. Louise meets the male enforcers he used to keep it under control. Oktar’s ‘lions’ reveal the hierarchy, rules, and ruthless methods used to enforce loyalty to the cult. And a woman who says she was sexually abused by Oktar describes how loyalty comes with a terrifying cost. Host: L…
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Meet Adnan Oktar, the Turkish televangelist who’s rarely spotted without an entourage of surgically enhanced young women he calls his ‘kittens’. After Oktar is sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison, Louise tries to get to grips with one of the strangest stories she has ever covered. Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East correspondent at The Sunday …
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The leader of Turkey’s most powerful cult, Adnan Oktar, was sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison in January 2021. The Sunday Times’s Middle East correspondent Louise Callaghan steps into his weird world of ‘kittens’, ‘lions’, and televangelism to reveal its dark heart. This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Su…
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At the end of 2023, Ear Hustle embarked on its first live tour — a celebration of our 100th episode. Nigel and Earlonne shared favorite moments from the show’s history, and a few of our talented friends performed live. On the heels of our second live tour, we bring you a never-before-heard recording from that first tour: a show we did at the Lodge …
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Seventeen years after his original conviction, Andrew Malkinson walks out of prison a free man. In the final episode of the series, we visit Andy a day after the Court of Appeal overturned his rape conviction following the revelation that new DNA evidence implicated another man in the crime. Host: Will Roe If you, or someone you know, has been affe…
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Finally, a door opens. The CCRC refers Andy’s case to the Court of Appeal, and police arrest another man. After 17 long years, could Andy win his freedom? Host: Will Roe If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help: Rape Crisis England & Wales NHS - Help after rape and sex…
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Emily meets the former wife of another suspect in the original investigation. Police failures loom as we learn of other men - some with violent histories - who were barely investigated. Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times. Actress: Eliza Marsland. If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in…
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Cracks are showing in the case against Andrew Malkinson. Emily Dugan meets the key witnesses who claimed they felt pressure to testify, and learns of failures at the Criminal Cases Review Commission that may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times. If you, or someone you know…
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Years into Andrew Malkinson’s prison sentence, new forensic techniques reveal the presence of another man’s DNA at the crime scene. Emily Dugan investigates the implications of this evidence and the challenges of reopening a long-closed case. Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times. Audio from HMP North Sea Camp courtesy…
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Eyewitness evidence is powerful. But it is not infallible. Emily Dugan draws on wrongful convictions abroad to explore how memory and trauma can complicate justice and what this might mean for Andy’s conviction. Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times. If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised i…
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No DNA. Contradictory descriptions. Witnesses with hidden criminal pasts. Andy’s trial is fraught with controversy. As the jury returns a guilty verdict, Emily Dugan unpicks the flaws in the judicial system that can send an innocent man down. Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times. If you, or someone you know, has been …
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In 2003, a 33-year-old mother of two was raped and left for dead during a horrific attack in Salford, Greater Manchester. A local security guard called Andrew Malkinson was arrested and later sentenced to life - despite insisting he was innocent. Emily Dugan explores how a seemingly ordinary man became caught up in a shocking crime and left trying …
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A mother of two is brutally attacked, but was the wrong man sent to prison? Andrew Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and sentenced to life in prison. The Sunday Times social affairs correspondent Emily Dugan investigates the flawed trial, unreliable witness testimony, police failings and breakthrough DNA evidence that turned the c…
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Dan and Maureen are back! Well, Maureen is still where she was and Dan is still not home, but they are back in SaysWhovia at the end of Dan’s Very Bad, No Good Summer. Dan needs a nap and a hug. He has stories from the American road, though. Have you heard about the vast cotton fields of Utah? Meanwhile, two of his favorite things: the postal syste…
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Finally facing interrogation, David Cameron and Lex Greensill appear before MPs. Between their testimony and half-apologies, we finally come to the truth - that the scandal surrounding Greensill Capital didn’t just bring down one company, it brought down British politics as a whole. Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Correspondent for The Sunday Tim…
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What happens when the music stops? With insurers retreating and Lex Greensill’s tangled web of influence unravelling fast, only one thing’s for certain - many others stand to be exposed. Guest: John Collingridge, Deputy business editor at The Sunday Times. Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times. Clips used: GFG Alliance, Parliament…
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Sanjeev Gupta styled himself as the saviour of Britain’s struggling steel industry, but his empire was fuelled by Greensill money. Deep in Britain’s industrial heartlands, we step inside a house of cards. Guest: John Collingridge, Deputy business editor at The Sunday Times. Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times. Clips used: Channe…
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Greensill Capital is on the brink - until it lands a lifeline helping to run a vital payroll app for NHS staff. David Aaronovitch uncovers how the company secured taxpayer-backed schemes even as its risky finance model raised eyebrows in the corridors of power. Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent for The Sunday Times. Host: David Aarono…
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Calls, texts and elbow bumps. As a global pandemic takes hold, former prime minister David Cameron is now working for Greensill Capital, dusting down old contact books and making calls to old colleagues at the very top of a government in crisis. Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times. Host: David Aaronovitch, former colum…
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How did a little-known Australian banker end up with the ear of a Prime Minister? David Aaronovitch recounts the improbable rise of Lex Greensill from a sugar cane farm in central Queensland to high-flying advisor with an office in 10 Downing Street. Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times. Host: David Aaronovitch, former …
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Behind the closed doors of Whitehall in central London Lex Greensill promised to revolutionise the way money moves through the highest levels of British business. Instead, he built an empire on financial smoke. David Aaronovitch follows the trail of charm and deception leading from the City deep into the heart of the British government. Presented b…
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