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Episodes
Off Duty: The Last Stand
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the hearings Alex Villa had been through in nearly 11 years, Jennifer knew this could be the one. In her possession was the disc with the FBI c...
Off Duty: The Sentence
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alex was in prison for life, and Jennifer and Eric discovered they’d become captives to the case, too – the ‘termites’ digging in at every lev...
Off Duty: The Prosecutors
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Raul Palma, the video game repair specialist who found the evidence that could break open Alex’s case, had gone missing. Again. As Jennifer and Eric...
Off Duty: Digital Forensics
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since the day he was arrested, Tyrone Clay had been asking police to look at his PlayStation. He said he had been playing NBA 2K11 on the night of the...
Off Duty: The Police
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Unlike the other suspects, Alex Villa refused to confess. He was released after 48 hours, but the police weren’t done with him. Not by a long shot. ...
Off Duty: The Interrogations
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Within 72 hours, three men confessed to having murdered Officer Clifton Lewis. But in time, they all recanted, insisting they never had anything to do...
Off Duty: The Crime
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot...
Off Duty: a new series on a fight for justice from Guardian Investigates – trailer
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, a Chicago police officer is murdered. Police find four suspects. Three confess. But the fourth refuses to break. He’ll embark on a 12-year ...
The Birth Keepers: Death plan – episode six
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A backlash against FBS grows and Emilee and Yolande respond to the growing crisis. This is episode six of a year-long investigation by Guardian journa...
The Birth Keepers: FBS goes global – episode five
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emilee and Yolande had grown an ideology and seeded it globally. A reach investigative reporters Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne could not have fathomed w...
The Birth Keepers: Growing an empire – episode four
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Within months of the death of Lorren’s baby, Journey Moon, and the public backlash against the Free Birth Society that followed, Emilee Saldaya took...
The Birth Keepers: Journey Moon – episode three
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Lorren Holliday got pregnant in 2018, she joined Emilee Saldaya’s Facebook group and quickly became hooked on the Free Birth Society podcasts. ...
The Birth Keepers: When Emilee met Yolande – episode two
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who is Emilee Saldaya, the woman behind the Free Birth Society movement? And how did she meet her business partner Yolande Norris-Clark? Do either wom...
The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. Bu...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 8
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 13, Gina Rinehart read a book that would help shape her worldview – Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The novel’s capitalist underpinnings promote t...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 7
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is well known as a pioneer of Australia’s iron ore industry but few realise Hancock started his mining caree...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 6
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the previous episode, we covered historical claims made over the years that Lang Hancock, Gina’s father, had two unacknowledged daughters with se...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 5
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the portrait of Gina Rinehart that launched 1,000 memes, went viral globally and became Australia’s Mona Lisa. But it’s also a symbol of ho...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 4
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, John Hancock had dinner with his mother, Gina Rinehart. He says it’s the last positive interaction he had with her. In an in-depth...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 3
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We unpack the bitter rivalries, court battles and family conflicts behind the Hancock fortune, and consider a fundamental question: is Rinehart a mini...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 2
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does Gina Rinehart, like her father before her, use wealth and power to influence Australian politics? Rinehart’s first major foray into the pol...
Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 1
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rinehart tops Australia’s rich list, worth almost $40bn. She’s also a climate sceptic, a Trumpette and a litigant – even against her own ki...
Missing in the Amazon: the frontline – episode six
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to Beto Marubo, if Dom and Bruno did the same expedition in 2025, they would face the same levels of danger. The Guardian’s Latin America ...
Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Funerals are held for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira and there is hope that the election of President Lula will mean new protections for the Amazon –...
Missing in the Amazon: the ambush – episode four
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belonging...
Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher – episode three
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bruno Pereira was considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de...
Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of MixMag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, cor...
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s re...
Missing in the Amazon: a new Guardian investigative series – trailer
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – o...
Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too l...
Black Box: the white mask – episode 6
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tip not from a witness...
Black Box: Bing and I – episode 5
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories about the way AI could – in fact, already is – making the world better. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had c...
Black Box: repocalypse now – episode 4
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Eugenia Kuyda created Replika, the AI companion app, she had no idea it would be downloaded millions of times all around the world. The results w...
Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff, the deepfake porn app – episode 3
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes th...
Black Box: the connectionists – episode 2
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a techno...
Black Box: the collision – episode 1
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (n...
Black Box: a new podcast series about AI and us – trailer
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In rural Norway, a young woman’s boyfriend forgets who she is overnight. In Detroit, a man is arrested for a crime, but he was never there. In a Spa...
Can I tell you a secret? Episode seven: an update
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guardian producer Lucy Hough and reporter Matthew Weaver give an update on the outcome of Matthew Hardy’s appeal
Can I tell you a secret? Episode six: the winding clock
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the years tick by, journalist Sirin Kale speaks to victims and those who know Matthew to ask whether his stalking will ever truly end
Can I tell you a secret? Episode five: a mother’s love
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Sirin Kale meets Matthew’s mother to uncover more about his past, and find out what might have motivated him to cyberstalk his victims fo...
Can I tell you a secret? Episode four: a reckoning
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew’s victims come face to face with him as an attempt is made to stop his torment once and for all
Can I tell you a secret? Episode three: the man upstairs
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who is Matthew? Journalist Sirin Kale looks for clues about who this cyberstalker really is and why he creates chaos and fear in so many people’s li...
Can I tell you a secret? Episode two: the widening circle
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the cyberstalker spreads his net wider, anyone could be a target. The fast-changing world of social media creates new opportunities for him to find...
Can I tell you a secret? Episode one: the beginning
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guardian journalist Sirin Kale takes us to a small town in the north of England to uncover how one man began a decade of cyberstalking