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Thanks for listening to The Professor. There will be a brand new Hidden Worlds series coming soon.In the meantime, we wanted to share The Burden — a new investigative true-crime podcast from Orbit Media.The show tells the story of Detective
Veres receives some photographs of parts of the Caravaggio canvas. He follows the lead to a source in Belgium, who is close to the Sicilian mafia. The source provides crucial new information about what happened to the painting. And it points to
Veres gets word that the mafia are willing to talk about returning stolen art. He meets a group of middlemen in Naples, who tell him there’s a canvas on offer. As Veres negotiates the return of the painting, we begin to doubt Veres and Brand’s
Veres goes to Belgium to meet a contact who he believes can help him obtain vital information about the Caravaggio painting. The contact agrees to act as Veres’s go-between, connecting Veres with senior figures in the mafia hierarchy. Meanwhile
William Veres is arrested in a dawn raid – one of 50 simultaneous raids across Europe to bust his criminal gang. To get out of trouble he agrees a deal with Italian anti-mafia police: if he can help them solve the coldest cold case in the histo
William Veres is in trouble. In 2018 he was arrested following the largest ever investigation by the Italian police’s art squad. They accuse him of running an art-smuggling ring with ties to the Sicilian mafia. He is alleged to have stolen $40
Can an accused criminal solve the coldest cold case in the history of art crime?In this special pre-season bonus episode, Brazen co-founder Tom Wright speaks with Simon Willis about his upcoming podcast series, The Professor. Simon shares his
Right now, around the world, there are real life stories unfolding that you wouldn’t believe. Stories that are stranger than fiction.In Hidden Worlds, we’ll take you inside these stories and into places usually concealed from view. Every few
Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while reporting in the occupied West Bank in 2022. While no one person has been held responsible for her death, investigations say it was most likely Israel Defense Forces who fired the bullet. At least 20
This week on Brazen Presents, Project Brazen co-founder Tom Wright talks with Zeke Faux about his investigation into the wild world of crypto, and his new book on the subject, Number Go Up.In 2021, cryptocurrency entered the mainstream. Inves
This week on Brazen Presents, 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
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re sharing a special preview of the first episode of Ritually, a brand new Brazen podcast exploring what spirituality looks like for our secular world.Join journalist-turned-guinea pig Nelufar Hedayat as she t
In May, Project Brazen released a podcast about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal correspondent who was arrested by Russian authorities back in March. Evan was falsely accused of espionage, and he’s being held in a Moscow prison until h
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re sharing a special preview from our new series of The Closer — the podcast that tells the inside story of deals that changed the world.The Closer returns this summer with six dramatic new stories of groundbr
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re sharing a special preview of the first episode of Gateway: Cocaine, Murder & Dirty Money in Europe, Project Brazen’s podcast that takes you inside the hidden world of cocaine.In this six-part podcast series
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re bringing you a special bonus interview with the host and lead reporter of Brazen’s latest podcast: GATEWAY: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in Europe.Launching 5 June 2023, GATEWAY is hosted by journalist Mi
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 Russia on behalf of the US government. Evan was imp
This week on Brazen Presents, 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 con
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re sharing a special edition of The Closer Weekly. Last month, Project Brazen launched The Closer, a new podcast sharing the inside stories of the deals that changed the world. Then, just as season one wrapped,
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re going back to Borodyanka, Ukraine. Laurel Chor travelled there for the first time last year when she was hosting our podcast “Resistance: Stories from Ukraine.” The series documented how ordinary Ukrainians h
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re revisiting our series Resistance: Stories from Ukraine. The show, hosted by photojournalist Laurel Chor, documented how ordinary Ukrainians have been resisting the Russian invasion — whether that meant taking
This week on Brazen Presents, we’re bringing you an episode from the investigative podcast Motive from WBEZ Chicago. Chicago gangs: Real people. Real stories. A way forward. The new season of Motive from WBEZ Chicago explores violence on the
This is a preview of Project Brazen’s latest podcast, Dynamite Doug. Hosted by Ellen Wong (of Netflix’s GLOW and Scott Pilgrim), the 6-part series delves into the New York Metropolitan Museum's acquisition of stolen art. It’s based on a trove o
One year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, how has the war changed the daily lives of Ukraine's youngest generation?Brazen reporter Susie Armitage highlights how the war is impacting Ukrainian children. In this episode
This week on Brazen Presents, reporter Neha Wadekar interviews Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, leader of Me We International, an organisation that uses art to help refugees around the world heal from trauma, reframe their narratives, and author their futur
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