Behind the Scenes with The Podcast Tapes

The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

Pineapple Street Studios

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

So many of you asked to see the explosive interviews captured in The Catch and Kill Podcast ... and now you can. Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes, a six-part, half-hour documentary series directed by Emmy® winners Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (HBO’s Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking) and produced by World of Wonder, brings to life Ronan's intimate, revealing interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources, conducted for the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist’s podcast and bestselling book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and A Conspiracy to Protect Predators. The series expands on the podcast and the book, with never-before-seen footage and new insights into this culture-shaking story, enhanced by Bailey and Barbato’s creative weaving of additional sound and imagery from documents, audio tapes, photos, archive footage and striking illustrations. With fresh perspectives and detail — not just on the harrowing effort to expose one powerful predator, but on the systems that help cover up terrible crimes to this day — there are revelations in this series that may surprise even those familiar with the reporting. Listen to the trailer here and then watch or stream all six episodes tonight on HBO and HBO Max. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ronan. A lot of you asked if you could see video of the interviews in this podcast.
0:06.2	And, well, now you can. Catch and kill the podcast tapes, a documentary featuring new material
0:13.2	and further expanding on the stories of these sources is now streaming on HBO Max.
0:18.8	It's beautifully directed by the two guys who created RuPaul's Drag Race,
0:22.5	and it's a whole different experience to see these sources and their faces and their emotional
0:28.5	journeys. Rather than just hear from them, I hope you'll check it out. Here's the trailer.
0:33.5	I'm often asked, why did it take you such a long time to come forward with your story?
0:39.3	For 20 years, I felt terrified that somebody would find me and ask the question I had been
0:45.3	dreading, which is, didn't you used to work for Harvey Weinstein?
0:51.5	New York Magazine reporting claims of sexual harassment, assault, and rape. The Harvey Weinstein scandal.
0:59.8	Please, I don't want to do something I don't want.
1:01.6	Five minutes. Don't ruin your friendship with me for five minutes.
1:05.3	What was going through your mind as he's saying those things?
1:07.8	That just made me feel like burning inside.
1:13.1	We knew that the facts and crimes have to be quite large to take someone like that down.
1:20.3	This is the story of a group of sources risked everything to expose the truth.
1:26.3	And we wanted him to be stopped. It's the story of how media...
1:29.3	These are fellow journalists. How could they have killed us?
1:31.9	And law enforcement and the world of private espionage...
1:35.5	I didn't know if they're going to come after me.
1:37.9	...protected a powerful and predatory man.
1:40.5	He said, it was on you making a very big mistake. It really did feel like the ungetable story.
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