This week on Dynamite Doug we’re sharing the first episode of a new four-part series from Brazen called ‘The Professor’.William Veres is in trouble. In 2018 he was arrested following the largest ever investigation by the Italian police’s art

Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal

Aug 24th, 2023 13m 4s

This week on Dynamite Doug, we’re sharing a special preview of Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal. This new series uncovers Silicon Valley’s origins as a laboratory for espionage.At the dawn of the hi-tech age, Moscow’s spies opened u

Free Evan Gershkovich: How a US reporter was imprisoned in Putin's Russia

May 18th, 2023 26m 7s

This is a special episode from Project Brazen. How did Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich end up wrongfully imprisoned in Russia, and what happens now?On March 29, Russian authorities arrested Evan and accused him of spying on Russ

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Live: A Discussion on Cambodia’s Stolen Statues

May 4th, 2023 33m 10s

In this bonus episode, we bring you an expert panel on Cambodian art restitution, live from New York. Back in February, Dynamite Doug marked its launch with a symposium tackling Cambodia’s stolen heritage and the Met’s problem with trafficked a

Introducing Night of Show: Prince's Super Bowl Comeback Shakes the Music Industry

Apr 26th, 2023 16m 15s

This week on Dynamite Doug, we’re sharing a preview of Night of Show, the latest podcast from Project Brazen. To listen to the rest of this episode, search for Night of Show, wherever you get your podcasts.In Night of Show, accomplished conce

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Kenya Wants Its Missing Artifacts Back

Apr 19th, 2023 22m 44s

If you’ve been listening to Dynamite Doug, you know it focuses on the looting of Cambodia’s art, and how so many priceless statues wound up in Western museums or with rich collectors. In this bonus episode of Dynamite Doug, Project Brazen repor

“Curiosity Killed the Cat”

Apr 5th, 2023 26m 52s

Emma faces up to what she’s done as Douglas is finally brought low, and Cambodia begins the gargantuan task of bringing its art back home. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Museum fights a rearguard action to cling on to its collection…a struggle tha

The Lion

Mar 29th, 2023 30m 52s

A former Khmer Rouge child soldier, Toek Tik, codenamed “The Lion,” helps the Cambodian government identify looted statues. Eventually Sotheby’s agrees to return its piece. Douglas keeps on looting but he’s on the radar of investigators at the

Art Sleuths

Mar 22nd, 2023 26m 16s

A British conservator comes across a pair of stone feet in a Cambodian jungle temple. His sleuthing leads him to deduce the feet belong to a statue in a U.S. museum and the trail leads to Douglas, the most serious scrutiny yet. Emma Bunker help

Unrequited Love

Mar 15th, 2023 30m 25s

As Cambodia opens to the world, the looting enters a new phase as a hoard of Western collectors descend on the nation. Douglas becomes rich, with a chauffeured Rolls Royce in London, and he grows close to the Denver-based academic, Emma Bunker.

Blood Statues

Mar 8th, 2023 33m 23s

When the genocidal Khmer Rouge takes over Cambodia, killing 2 million people, Douglas senses an opportunity. Amid the bloodshed, murderous generals rob the nation blind – hacking statues out of jungle temples – and Douglas is a willing buyer. A

Greatest Art Heist

Feb 28th, 2023 25m 31s

How Douglas Latchford, a nobody from colonial India, makes a name for himself dealing in Cambodian art. It’s the 1960s, and no one cares about Westerners stealing ancient statues from poor countries to sell in London and New York. But, as attit

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Introducing Dynamite Doug

Feb 27th, 2023 3m 24s

How one man carried out the greatest art heist in history – the looting of Cambodia’s entire cultural heritage – with the aid of Western academics, dealers and curators. This is the story the art world doesn’t want told.Dynamite Doug is a Pro

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