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Sweet Bobby

Kirat and Bobby have an unusual relationship. The circumstances of their individuallives mean it’s difficult for them to meet face to face but, despite everything, they end up falling in love.Their romance might play out online but in many ways it’s a traditional love story.Until Kirat discovers the disturbing truth.Sweet Bobby is the #1 chart-topping, award-winning seriesabouta sophisticated ten year scam that almost destroyed one woman’s life, and the investigation into the catfisher behind it

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40:35

Introducing ... The Lab Detective

Sweet Bobby ·

2025/07/22

Introducing...The Lab DetectiveKathleen Folbigg was known as‘Australia's worst female serial killer’ - she’d lost all four of her infant children and was convicted for killing them.Until, after spending decades in jail, a scientist working in a lab uncovered the truth behind the deaths.The Lab detective is the story of a shocking miscarriage of justice, and an investigation into why Kathleen’s story might not be the last.This is episode one of four. You can listen to the entire series today by

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5:39

Introducing...Oceans: Life Under Water

Sweet Bobby ·

2025/05/19

We are partnering with Greenpeace and Crowd Network, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/inviteWhat does it sound like at the bottom of the ocean?In this new podcast from Greenpeace and Crowd Network, you can find out. Join Wildlife Filmmaker Hannah Stitfall as she embarks on a journey across the planet and under the waves.You’ll

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Introducing...Agent Pale Horse

Sweet Bobby ·

2025/04/01

We are partnering with CBC, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Sweet Bobby. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...Agent Pale Horse. Agent Pale Horse tells the story of FBI undercover agent Scott Payne, whose job it was to infiltrate the most dangerous gangs of our times: outlaw bikers, drug cartels and the international neo-Nazi networks

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Introducing...Scam Factory

Sweet Bobby ·

2025/02/25

We are partnering with Scam Factory, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Sweet Bobby. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...Scam FactoryYou know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could be real, but something about them seems fishy. You likely dismiss these texts and emails as mere annoyances,

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41:07

Introducing...Radioactive

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/11/12

We are partnering with ABC, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Sweet Bobby. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery. It details the death of a 28-year-old whistleblower which, 50 years later, haunts Oklahoma and the nation. The young plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a

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Introducing...Crime Junkie

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/10/28

We are partnering with Audiochuck, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Sweet Bobby. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...Crime JunkieTwo women, both in the same county in Texas, are murdered within days of each other. But along with the timing and location, there’s one more big similarity that still puzzles both investigators and their

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40:45

Introducing...Elon's Spies

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/10/10

Introducing...Elon's SpiesElon 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

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Return to...Sweet Bobby

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/10/04

Three years ago, we released our chart-topping investigative podcast Sweet Bobby. And now, Netflix are releasing the documentary Sweet Bobby on 16th October. Catch up with the original story across all 6 episodes by searching for Sweet Bobby wherever you get your podcasts. To listen to the exclusive ad-free and bonus episode with Kirat, the woman at the heart of this catfishing story, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or become a Tortoise member. You can find out more about

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1:43

Introducing...What's Wrong With Democracy?

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/09/05

Introducing...What's Wrong With Democracy?By the end of this year, countries making up half the world’s population will have held elections. But not all of them will have been free and fair. In ‘What’s Wrong with Democracy?’ Professor Ben Ansell of Oxford University will, with the help of academics, journalists, activists and writers, figure out whether democracy is working and how best to preserve democratic freedoms, equality and rights.What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media

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4:06

Introducing...A Sense of Rebellion

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/07/08

We are partnering with the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Sweet Bobby. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...A Sense of RebellionA Podcast Series by Evgeny Morozov.Forget the military or Silicon Valley: we owe our smart technologies - from toothbrushes to beds - to a band of

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33:53

Introducing...The Gas Man

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/05/28

Introducing...The Gas ManIt starts with a tip-off.It’s the late 1980s and US Special Agent Dennis Bass is warned about a shipment of suspicious chemicals headed to a secret destination. So he follows the lead – and ends up stumbling into a global plot helping fuel a war. The main suspect? The Gas Man.In the decades since, Special Agent Bass has been locked in an international game of cat and mouse with the man who supplied a dangerous regime with the chemicals to make weapons. Every time Bass thinks

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5:52

Introducing...The White Devil

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/05/24

We are partnering with Campside Media, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Sweet Bobby. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...The White DevilSharing something special this week: A show from our friends at Campside Media, called White Devil.Late at night in May of 2021, a single gunshot shattered the silence along the beach at Belize’s

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1:53

Introducing...To Die For

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/04/08

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

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6:34

Introducing...The Spy Who

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/03/04

We are partnering with Wondery, so that we can continue to bring our listeners investigative series like Sweet Bobby. 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/inviteIntroducing...The Spy WhoThese 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,

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37:12

Introducing...Who Trolled Amber?

Sweet Bobby ·

2024/02/27

Introducing..Who Trolled Amber?What comes to mind when you think of Amber Heard? Liar? Survivor? Narcissist? Millions of us watched the celebrity trial of the century, Depp v Heard, in 2022. Amber Heard lost and Johnny Depp was vindicated. But what if Amber was actually the victim of an organised trolling campaign? What if the online hate against her was manufactured?Alexi Mostrous, the reporter who brought you Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed, investigates what happened to Amber and who might have been

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42:17

Episode 6: Motive

Sweet Bobby ·

2023/09/04

In the final episode of Sweet Bobby, Kirat’s case against the catfisher takes an unexpected turn. As Alexi is putting the finishing touches to the series, he gets a phone call that changes everything.Listen to the full six-part series today. For thepremium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists,download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-freeaccess to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows,subscribeto Tortoise+ on ApplePodcasts.If you’d like to further

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32:54

Episode 5: (In)justice

Sweet Bobby ·

2023/09/04

After the confession, Kirat goes to the police. But their reaction to her case isn’t what she’s expecting. Plus: Alexi tries a new approach with the catfisher...Listen to the full six-part series today. For thepremium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists,download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-freeaccess to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows,subscribeto Tortoise+ on ApplePodcasts.If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us

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39:24

Episode 4: Dark triads

Sweet Bobby ·

2023/09/04

Kirat deals with the fallout from the confession. Alexi’s investigation reveals the startling true beginnings of the scam, as he tries tounravelthe catfisher's motivation.Listen to the full six-part series today. For thepremium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists,download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-freeaccess to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows,subscribeto Tortoise+ on ApplePodcasts.If you’d like to further support slow journalism and

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43:05

Episode 3: Confession

Sweet Bobby ·

2023/09/04

Bobby is now closer than ever – and yet he keeps slipping through Kirat's grasp. After beingpushed to breaking point, she makes the life changing decision to confront him – and discovers the truth...Listen to the full six-part series today. For thepremium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists,download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-freeaccess to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows,subscribeto Tortoise+ on ApplePodcasts.If you’d like to further

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40:21

Episode 2: Witness protection

Sweet Bobby ·

2023/09/04

Bobby finds his way back into Kirat's life, and their relationship grows closer – with devastating consequences. Meanwhile, Alexi investigates the sophistication of the catfishing scam.Listen to the full six-part series today. For thepremium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists,download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-freeaccess to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows,subscribeto Tortoise+ on ApplePodcasts.If you’d like to further support slow

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