Best podcasts of the week: paranoia and espionage in the tobacco industry
by Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier, Phil Harrison and from Technology | The Guardian on (#5PY0M)
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Smoke Screen
The first day that we'd met, she revealed that she had been assigned to infiltrate me as a spy." So begins an intriguing new series on double-crossing, espionage and paranoia within the tobacco industry from pod producers Auddy and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Beginning in 2013, we meet lawyer Belinda, working on behalf of small tobacco companies in South Africa while keeping tabs for industry giants British American Tobacco. Just what was she doing? Hannah J Davies