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Drug money is carried out of the UK in suitcases carried by passengers travelling in luxury.
A cash mule tells David Collins about the brazen operation used to smuggle millions to Dubai.
This episode contains descriptions of suicidal thoughts.
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On the streets of northern England where chaos reigns among those doing the selling.
David Collins spends time in Merseyside, speaking to people working in the retail arm of the cocaine business.
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Europe’s vast ports act as logistic hubs in a worldwide operation that relies on corruption and torture.
In the Netherlands, Fiona Hamilton reveals the industrial scale of the cocaine business - and how it always leads to violence.
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As cocaine is smuggled out of South America it multiplies in value, driving people to extremes.
Stephen Drill follows the trail to Mexico and uncovers how the numbers used by law enforcement do not add up.
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Where people fight and die in the coca plantations.
In Colombia, Stephen Drill discovers how the international cocaine business starts, and the cost paid by everyone it touches.
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Between now and January 6th we will be playing the 2024 award-winning series, Cocaine Inc., from The Times, The Sunday Times and News Corp Australia.
A brutal attack on an innocent young woman sends the reporters on a global investigation.
David Collins visits Merseyside in northern England, where 26-year-old Elle Edwards was shot while celebrating Christmas Eve.
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The number of people with food allergies in the UK has more than doubled since 2008, with more than 5,000 people a year hospitalised in England with anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction. So what’s behind the increase and are we close to a cure?
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Host: Manveen Rana.
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On Christmas Day, The Times' Investigations Editor, Dominic Kennedy, will spend his last working day at the paper having started back in 1993. To mark this, Dominic sits down with Luke to talk about his career in journalism and revisits three very unique and very different stories that he’s investigated over the past 31 years.
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Guest: Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor, The Times.
Producer: Will Roe.
Host: Luke Jones.
Clips: Parliament TV, Times Radio.
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From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Tennessee, The Times’ Megan Agnew spent three weeks on the Taylor Swift trail, discovering the origins of the supersonic star. How does someone go from teenage guitarist to pop phenomenon? Was her fame just luck and talent, or was there a master plan behind it all?
This episode was first broadcast on June 10th 2024.
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Guest: Megan Agnew, Senior Features Writer, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Jane Mulkerrins.
Producer: Taryn Siegel.
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As a bonus episode, we’re bringing listeners of The Story the first episode of our series Last Man Standing - the story of British photojournalist John Cantlie who was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State in 2012. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since.
Times War Correspondent Anthony Loyd begins his investigation into John Cantlie's disappearance and explores the events of a prior kidnap asking what compelled John to return to Syria after his first escape.
Want more? Listen to the full series of Last Man Standing here.
This episode was first published on 24 June 2022.
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Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, War Correspondent, The Times.
Clips: BBC, 5Live, CNN, NBC, Broadcasting House (BBC Radio 4).
Listen to the whole series: Last Man Standing
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