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Bobby McDonald: The Guardians of the Realm
Bobby McDonald: The Guardians of the Realm
How do you stop a crime that has not happened yet? How do you figure out how some assassin will strike before they've actually done so?
This is the essential conundrum of the American Secret Service. They are the men and women who guard the US President and other important public figures in America. To be clear, they're not for a particular party, they're not Democrat nor Republican. They protect the representative of the people, whoever it is. They are like the Game of Thrones' Night Watch. They guard the realm and they do so with their very lives.
In today's episode, we'll talk about various assassination attempts, some successful, some failed, on US political figures. In almost all of them the forgotten figure was a Secret Service agent, who knowing there was danger, stepped in front of bullets and knives for the person they were protecting. Their names have been almost all forgotten, except within that small band of watchers who guard the realm...
Declan Hill: Organized Crime in Sports
Host Declan Hill is interviewed about his work investigating corruption and organized crime in sports.
Blood Sports
You will hear about the links between the mob and the highest levels of international boxing: the couple who live in hiding after revealing to the world the extent of state-sponsored doping in the Russian Olympic teams: the story of gambling addiction that led an NBA referee to link up with Gambino family connected associates to bet on his games; and many other exclusive episodes featuring investigators and fighters for sports integrity.
Declan Hill: Organized Crime in Sports
Tim Donaghy: The NBA Gamble
Nicholas Raudenski: Rampant and Regular Match-Fixing
Karim Zidan: The Betrayal - Boxing, MMA, and the Mob
Vitaly Stepanov: The Whistle-Blower who Exposed the Russian Olympic Team's Dirty Secret
Martin Dubbey: Thugs, Mobsters, and Sports Officials
Travis Tygart: Lance Armstrong and the Code of Silence
Enes Kanter: The Price of Freedom
Nancy Hogshead-Makar: The Immortality Factor: The Fight to Protect Athletes From Abuse
How to Catch a Killer
Interviews with some of the top forensic investigators in the world. All with a combination of both the practical police background - one of them was the detective that the movie and TV series Fargo was based on - and rare academic expertise. There are episodes on a successful murder investigation just before the advent of linking DNA with detective work: another former high-ranking investigator will speak about crime scene analysis and why he hates watching CSI; another colleague will speak about the new forensic technology that helped crack the Golden State Killer case.
Lisa Dadio: Solving the Unsolvable.
Lisa Dadio: The Disappearance of Annie Le
Tim Palmbach: A Murder in Our Town
Claire Glynn: The Golden State Killer
Peter Valentine: Navigating a Criminal Minefield
Murder and the mob: Organized Crime From the Inside
This season presents some of the best mafia and organized crime experts in the world: Donnie Brasco, the undercover cop who infiltrated the mob: Michael Franzese, a former Capo in the Colombo Crime Family: Antonio Nicaso, the leading expert on the 'Ndrangheta, Europe's biggest drug traffickers and their money-laundering links to the Vatican: the inside story of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger and the FBI corruption that give him a ‘license to kill’.
Michael Franzese: The Rules of the Mob
Michael Franzese: An American Legend
Antonio Nicaso: Holy Mafia: Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican
Robert Mazur: Intelligence was my Heroin
Donnie Brasco: The Rules of the Mafia
Whitey Bulger: License to Kill
Corruption as the Norm
Since the end of the Cold War, many multinational corporations are acting, essentially, as organized crime units. They corrupt, contaminate and criminalize vast sections of our society. Hear their effects on the financial sector, the war machine and the pharmaceutical industry.
Peter German: The Price of Blood
Sarah Chayes: America Runs on Corruption
Greg Coleman: Taking Down the Wolf
Declan Hill: Afghanistan - The $2 Trillion Scam
Master Classes with Henry C. Lee
A Master Class with Henry C. Lee: The Phil Spector Case
A Master Class with Henry C. Lee: The Pocahontas Case
The Slow Motion Chernobyl
The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 1
The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 2- The Big Lie
The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 3- The Big Silence
