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Rob Moore had a successful career in television until one day he ran out of ideas. After a stint as a gardener, a more enticing door was opened for him. He was offered a job in the shadowy world of corporate intelligence - he became a spy.
Tasked with working undercover to extract information from an environmental campaign group, Rob Moore says he eventually became sympathetic to the campaigners’ aims. He decided to turn on his employers and support the group he was meant to be infiltrating. Only it wasn’t that straightforward. He never told the campaigners who he really was and he never told his spymasters what he was really doing. Neither side knew the whole truth.
That was until 2016, when after years of being in control of these two disparate worlds he was unexpectedly outed. Now, the campaigners see him as a traitor who betrayed their trust. He sees himself as a misunderstood whistleblower.
From the team that brought you Sweet Bobby, and over three years in the making, Into The Dirt is a story about truth, spies and the stories we tell ourselves
The six-part series launches Tuesday 27th June. To get early access to the first 3 episodes and for the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87). For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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Introducing...Elon's Spies
Elon Musk is one of the most powerful men in the world. He's a billionaire, the founder of SpaceX, Tesla and more. To his followers, he's a hero; to his critics, a far-right rabble rouser.
But for someone so public, there’s one part of his life that’s less well known.
Elon’s Spies investigates how this free-speech champion uses private investigators and surveillance to target everyone from whistleblowers at his companies, to online critics and people in his own life.
This is episode one of three. You can binge the entire series today by subscribing to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or by downloading the Tortoise app. To listen, search for Elon's Spies wherever you get your podcasts.
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Reporter: Alexi Mostrous
Producer: Gary Marshall
Sound design and original composition: Tom Kinsella
Podcast artwork: Jon Hill
Executive producer: Ceri Thomas
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9 Jul 2024TRANSCRIPT
Introducing...Dangerous Memories
Introducing...Dangerous Memories
When Sarah watched her 23 year old daughter cycle away from her in Chelsea - a well-off corner of London - she had no idea it would be the last time they’d see each other for 6 years. What would make a loving child from a life of privilege sever ties with friends and family, and disappear?
It turns out, Sarah wasn’t alone in losing a daughter. Something strange was happening to other young women, too.
And they all had one thing in common: a kind of therapist figure - a woman they were all seeing and sharing their problems, their secrets, their fears with. But it took years for the truth of what was happening behind closed doors to emerge, and the extraordinary things this woman led them to believe.
Dangerous Memories is the story of young women who wanted to be healed that became, for us, a story about the healer, and what we risk when we let someone else into our mind, and our memory. The first 2 episodes are out now and released weekly. To binge-listen to all 6 episodes ad-free from today, subscribe to Tortoise+ or download the Tortoise app
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Reporter: Grace Hughes-Hallett
Producer: Gary Marshall
Additional reporting and production: Imogen Harper
Sound design and original composition: Tom Kinsella
Theme music: Far Gone (Don’t Leave) by Pictish Trail
Podcast artwork: Lola Williams
Commissioning editor: Basia Cummings
Executive producer: Ceri Thomas
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8 Apr 2024TRANSCRIPT
Introducing...To Die For
Introducing...To Die For
Imagine you were a fly on the wall at a dinner between the mafia, the CIA, and the KGB. That’s where this unprecedented story begins. A journey through the dark world of Russian intelligence where, for the first time, a professed “sex spy” tells her story. All of it.
Host Neil Strauss (Rolling Stone, The New York Times) brings listeners into the dangerous world of sexpionage, where enemies of the State are not the only victims. So too are the spies themselves, brainwashed to believe that their bodies belong to Russia and meticulously trained to become “the perfect weapons.” From the creators of the #1 hit podcast series To Live and Die in LA, this is To Die For.
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27 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
Introducing...The Spy Who
We are partnering with Wondery, so that we can continue to bring our listeners investigative series like Into the Dirt. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations at (https://www.tortoisemedia.com/invite/)www.tortoisemedia.com/invite (http://www.tortoisemedia.com/invite)
Introducing...The Spy Who
These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.
Search and follow The Spy Who wherever you listen to podcasts, or binge entire seasons early and ad-free on Wondery+ on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
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19 Sept 2023
Introducing...Hooked on Freddie
We are partnering with Wondery, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Into the Dirt. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations at www.tortoisemedia.com/invite (https://www.tortoisemedia.com/invite/)
Introducing Hooked On Freddie, a new six-part podcast series from Wondery and Blanchard House.
This is the story of Freddie, a wild dolphin who one day in the late 1980s swims into the harbour of a grim northern fishing town, and turns the inhabitants’ worlds upside down.
Some believe Freddie the Dolphin has healing powers. Others say that he’s an alien. And everyone wants to swim with him. But Freddie chooses one person above all others - Alan Cooper, a passionate animal rights activist.
But one day Alan is accused of taking his passion WAY too far. It becomes a tabloid sensation that grips the country, and a court case that changes Alan’s life forever.
Search and Follow ‘Hooked On Freddie’ wherever you listen to podcasts.
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20 Jul 2023
Introducing... Three Doors Down
Nikki Allan was 7 years old when she was brutally murdered. Her mother never gave up the hunt to find her killer.
David Boyd was a convicted child sex offender who lived three doors down from where Nikki first went missing. So how did it take the police thirty years to find him?
This is a story of class prejudice, police corruption and a shocking miscarriage of justice.
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13 Jul 2023
Episode six - The whole truth
In the final episode, Ceri travels to meet Rob in a peaceful garden in rural Wiltshire. What unfolds is a heated exchange about what Rob's story really is and what adds up to the whole truth.
Our next investigation: Three doors down (https://podfollow.com/1695799499) launches on Tuesday 18th July. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87). For early and ad-free access to Three doors down and our other investigative series, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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11 Jul 2023
Episode five - The verge
When Global Witness out Rob in 2015, things quickly fall apart. He loses everything that matters to him but to this day he believes that if his voice had been heard, it would have all worked out differently.
This is a six-part series from Tortoise with new episodes being released every Tuesday and Thursday. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87). For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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6 Jul 2023
Episode four - Chicken feed
Rob is adamant that in all the years he was undercover, he never sent information back to his spymasters that harmed the campaigners. But when you're the only one in control of the decisions, can you always get it right?
This is a six-part series from Tortoise with new episodes being released every Tuesday and Thursday. To listen to all episodes today, and for the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87). For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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4 Jul 2023
Episode three - Poison into medicine
Rob Moore says he can justify going undercover among anti-asbestos campaigners because he was following a Buddhist principle, turning poison into medicine. To this day he believes that if the people he infiltrated would really listen to his story they'd understand him differently. But does his story really stand up to scrutiny?
This is a six-part series from Tortoise with new episodes being released every Tuesday and Thursday. To get early access to the first 5 episodes and for the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87).
For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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27 Jun 2023
Episode two - Project Spring
It’s 2012 and Rob Moore goes 'into the dirt', undercover, to infiltrate a group of campaigners fighting for a ban on deadly asbestos. None of them knew they had a private spy in the camp. But it's hard to stay hidden forever.
This is a six-part series from Tortoise with new episodes being released every Tuesday and Thursday. To get early access to the first 5 episodes and for the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87). For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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27 Jun 2023
Episode one - The truth
Three years ago a former private spy came to our newsroom at Tortoise. He told an incredible story about infiltrating a campaign group, deceiving people for years but all the while being a 'double agent', before his world fell apart. And it all played out in the opaque world of corporate intelligence.
Since then, journalist Ceri Thomas has been asking who Rob Moore really is and what his motivations were.
This is a six-part series from Tortoise with new episodes being released every Tuesday and Thursday. To get early access to the first 5 episodes and for the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app (https://tortoisemedia.onelink.me/Cx9d/c770bd87). For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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6 Jun 2023
Introducing: Into the Dirt
From the team that brought you Sweet Bobby, and over three years in the making, Tortoise introduces Into The Dirt (https://torto.se/3COIJCG) – a story about truth, spies and the stories we tell ourselves.
Rob Moore had a successful career in television until one day he ran out of ideas. After a stint as a gardener, a more enticing door was opened for him. He was offered a job in the shadowy world of corporate intelligence - he became a spy.
Tasked with working undercover to extract information from an environmental campaign group, Rob Moore says he eventually became sympathetic to the campaigners’ aims. He decided to turn on his employers and support the group he was meant to be infiltrating. Only it wasn’t that straightforward. He never told the campaigners who he really was and he never told his spymasters what he was really doing. Neither side knew the whole truth.
Was Rob a misunderstood whistleblower or a traitor to a cause? Our latest six-part podcast series explores the extraordinary story of private spy, Rob Moore.
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Introducing ...Elon's Spies
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[…] Tolula Riley, she's an English actor. In her professional life, she's known for starring in Centriniens, Pride and Prejudice, and the HBO series Westworld. In her personal life, she's more famous for marrying Elon Musk, the billionaire who runs companies like Tesla and SpaceX. […]
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