Unmissables: Explosive Lies
by Global
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Introducing - Bloomin' Legends: The Impossible Missions
Introducing - Bloomin' Legends: The Impossible Missions
About this podcast
He said it could save lives. It didn’t. It couldn’t even find golf balls…
Jim McCormick was a cocky English salesman with an outrageous claim: a black plastic gadget that could sniff out bombs using “electromagnetic energy.” The science was pure fiction. But in the panic after 9/11, governments bought the lie - paying up to $60,000 for a device that started life as a $20 novelty golf-ball finder.
McCormick sold hope to armies and security forces across the globe. But hope turned deadly. Behind the deals were fragmented friendships, betrayals, and a truth so dangerous it would take years to drag into the light.
Alice Levine uncovers the jaw-dropping story of a con that cost countless lives - and the unlikely people who stopped at nothing to uncover the truth.
Explosive Lies is a Global Original podcast, produced by Forest Sounds in partnership with Dentsu Entertainment.
Episodes
- Introducing - Bloomin' Legends: The Impossible Missions · 44 minOperation Postmaster: The Biggest Heist of WWII? January, 1942 - Britain steals three Axis ships out of a neutral harbour, using a watering can, a bathtub, and a fake party. The…
- 6. No Sign of Remorse | Explosive Lies · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 6Episode 6. The fight for truth reaches its explosive final stage. At the Old Bailey, Jim’s legal team insists he genuinely believed the ADE worked. After years of investigation…
- 5. Dead End | Explosive Lies · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 5Episode 5. The investigation is thrown into turmoil. As Niki White digs deeper into Jim’s empire, she discovers that exposing the truth will be far harder - and far more…
- 4. Expanding Web of Fraud | Explosive Lies · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 4Episode 4. Steve and Meirion join forces as the investigation gathers pace, uncovering shocking complicity at the heart of the British state. Meanwhile, Detective Niki White…
- 3. Iraqi Bomb Squad | Explosive Lies · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 3Episode 3. The higher the stakes, the harder the fall? Jim doubles down, pushing the ADE’s supposed power with the backing of a powerful Iraqi general. His empire looks…
- 2. Ultimate Betrayal | Explosive Lies · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 2Episode 2. Loyalty or truth - which would you choose? Steve faces a brutal choice: protect his best friend of forty years or expose a secret that could shake governments. When he…
- 1. The Mole | Explosive Lies · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 1Episode 1. This story begins on the streets of Liverpool. Jim McCormick and his childhood friend Steve grew up side by side. But when Jim quits the police to chase big money as a…
- Introducing: Explosive Lies · 3 min · Season 3He said it could save lives. It didn’t. It couldn’t even find golf balls… Jim McCormick was a cocky English salesman with an outrageous claim: a black plastic gadget that could…
- Something explosive is coming... · 3 minLewis Goodall is joined by Alice Levine to let you in on a big secret. Something explosive is coming to this feed... your next podcast binge. Welcome to Unmissables, home to our…
- 6. Generous To A Fault | Coining It · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 6Episode 6. Who was the real James Parker? Lewis Goodall pieces together the truth behind the would-be Robin Hood, as his friends face jail for their actions. Penniless and…
- 5. Crash | Coining It · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 5Episode 5. The party’s over. When one of James’ friends goes to the police, detectives finally connect the dots. James is hauled in for questioning - but doesn't give a monkeys…
- 4. The God Of Small Things | Coining It · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 4Episode 4. James Parker’s secret has been rumbled. But he’s not about to give up his millionaire spending. And instead of handing back all his glitched bitcoin, he and his…
- 3. Money Spending Expert | Coining It · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 3Episode 3. Destination: Dubai. James Parker and his newly hired financial advisor are on the trip of a lifetime - to meet a man who can turn their glitched Bitcoin into gold and…
- 2. Wacky Races | Coining It · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 2Episode 2. James Parker has turned a digital glitch into a fortune. Most would keep it quiet - but not James. The newly minted millionaire flaunts his wealth across Blackpool…
- 1. Things Get Weird in Blackpool | Coining It · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 1Episode 1. In Blackpool, one of the UK’s poorest cities, James Parker lives in a damp, mouldy flat. He’s in his mid-fifties, broke, but surrounded by a small circle of close…
- Introducing: Coining It with Lewis Goodall · 3 min · Season 2In a damp Blackpool flat, James Parker is broke, restless, and stuck in a life going nowhere - until he discovers a glitch in a Bitcoin trading platform that begins pouring…
- 6. An Epiphany at the Hampstead Toy Boat Pond | Filthy Ritual · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 6Episode 6. The trial is over, this should be the end of it. But as they gather on the steps of Blackfriars Court, Keith, Maria and Sylvia hear rumours of a new scam that’s been…
- 5. The Paper Trail Trial | Filthy Ritual · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 5Episode 5. At Blackfriars Crown Court, a long-awaited trial is about to commence. It could finally bring justice to this group of Hampstead victims. But Juliette D’Souza’s…
- 4. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? | Filthy Ritual · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 4Episode 4. Sylvia Eaves, a retired Opera singer with a knack for making friends, who lost thousands of pounds to Juliette D’Souza finds herself back in the thrall of the healer…
- 3. Wherefore Art Thou Juliette? | Filthy Ritual · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 3Episode 3. In the face of apathy and ridicule from the police, Keith Bender takes his allegations about Juliette D’Souza to the only avenue that’s left to him: the media. A few…
- 2. The Spirits Are Always Watching | Filthy Ritual · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 2Episode 2. Keith starts spreading the word about Juliette D’Souza’s ‘powers’. Little by little, Juliette’s client base expands across Hampstead, as her promises of miracle cures…
- 1. The Healer of Hampstead | Filthy Ritual · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 1Episode 1. An eccentric osteopath, Keith Bender, meets a charming, mysterious woman named Juliette D’Souza. Keith’s life is falling apart, and Juliette seems to know just how to…
- Introducing: Filthy Ritual · 4 min · Season 1This is a story about a scam. But this isn’t any old scam. There's shamanism, a 'tree of life' in the jungle of Suriname, a bathing ritual in a dark rusty red lake, voodoo dolls…
