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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

Doping, match-fixing, assault and fraud — the dark side of sport in 60 seconds.

Modern history is filled with terrible crimes, baffling hoaxes, and seedy scandals. The infamous Jack the Ripper slayings. The alleged survival of Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of the murdered Tsar. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's public fall from grace. The Chicago Tylenol poisonings and the copycat crimes that followed.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom—landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. “Reading The Curse of the Marquis de Sade...

'Gripping and essential reading' - TIM SPECTOR 'A compelling true crime story' - THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Strips away the lies to show what's really happening in the world' - OLIVER BULLOUGH 'Totally compelling' - ELIZABETH KOLBERT Plastic is everywhere in our daily lives. But the companies making it...

The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible.

Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that...

Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the British Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more than seven years.

Ancient Scandals is a history and true crime podcast about the most shocking secrets, betrayals, and scandals from the ancient world.Long before tabloids, courts of public opinion, or social media, there were affairs that destroyed dynasties, conspiracies that toppled empires, religious scandals that shattered faith, and private sins that became public disasters.Each episode uncovers a real scandal from ancient history—stories of forbidden relationships, political corruption, court intrigue, poison plots, sexual scandals, religious hypocrisy, and power gone wrong in Greece, Rome, Egypt, ...

The college basketball scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black Sox scandals were to baseball - a loss of innocence, after which the game would be permanently tarnished, its relationship to power and big money firmly established. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen identifies all the major figures - including players, coaches, gangsters, clergymen, politicians - that made up the elaborate network that controlled the outcomes to many games or protected those who did so.

The gripping inside story of a major British scandal, a man who conned the elderly out of millions of pounds, and an expose of the terrifying reality of what happens to the elderly behind closed doors, from award-winning journalist Kate Snell. Behind a façade of luxury and respectability, David...

The year is 1859, and Congressman Daniel Sickles and his beautiful wife Teresa are the toast of Washington society. Philip Barton Key, US Attorney for the District of Columbia, is one of the couple's closest friends - so close, in fact, that he often escorts the beautiful Mrs. Sickles to social events when the congressman is too busy. Then one day, Congressman Daniel Sickles receives an anonymous note about his wife and Key, setting into motion a tragic course of events that culminates in a bloody confrontation in the street that leaves one man dead and the other charged with murder.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of A Very English Scandal by John Preston, read by Daniel Weyman. The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC drama Corruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic...

A tale of sex, lies, and scandal in Pakistan. A limited-episode podcast that reexamines and investigates a fascinating crime in an unusual city. The podcast serves as an accompaniment to Society Girl, a non-fiction book by Tooba Masood and Saba Imtiaz.

'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and...

Every week Phil Craig and his guests reveal the world’s BIGGEST scandals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by Catie, a nurse practitioner with a curiosity for all things clinical, criminal, and just plain weird. Scrubs & Scandals dives into true crime, medical mysteries, and the cases where science doesn’t quite add up. From toxic exposures and suspicious deaths to coverups, misdiagnoses, and ethically murky middle grounds—each episode unpacks the stories that make you say, “Wait… what really happened here?” Whether you’re a healthcare worker, true crime obsessive, or just love digging into the strange and unexplained—scrub in. It’s about to get weird.

The Sports Scandals Podcasts shines a light on the dark side of sports. We cover the famous and infamous scandals of athletes, teams and events that have shaped the sporting world. We look at the scandals that have rocked Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Hockey, The World Cup, The Olympics and More!If you like the show, give us a 5 Star Review and comment on what topics you want us to cover next.

Your favorite guilty pleasure! A biweekly podcast featuring penetrating investigations into anything socially deviate, scientifically unexplainable, celebrity gossip, horrifically sinister – and - if we get lucky, criminal. Your hosts are a Millennial woman, a Gen X man, and a wise-cracking AI engine. Amazingly informative and funny!

Betrayal. Murder. Conspiracies. Cover-ups. History is filled with stories of deception, downfall, and ultimate justice—but some remain buried in time, waiting to be uncovered. The Sacred Scandal brings to light the dark deeds, shocking twists, and unexpected redemptions of the past. Each episode dives into gripping accounts of power struggles, secret alliances, and crimes that shook civilizations. Some are well-known, others have been forgotten—but all reveal the eternal truth that no darkness goes unpunished, and no justice is delayed forever. Because in the end, no crime escapes justice....