From In the Dark: The Runaway Princesses

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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An excerpt from “The Runaway Princesses,” a miniseries based on Heidi Blake’s reporting on Dubai’s royal family, and the women who risked their lives to escape it.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is David Remnick from the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:02.8	Now you might recall that the team that makes the amazing award-winning
0:07.4	podcast, In the Dark, joined us here at the New Yorker recently.
0:11.4	Season 3 of In the Dark is coming soon, but in the meantime, they've all paired up with
0:16.7	the New Yorker's Heidi Blake and produced an extraordinary mini series based on Heidi's
0:21.6	investigative reporting into Dubai's powerful royal family.
0:26.0	The series is called The Runaway Princesses.
0:29.3	Please keep listening for an excerpt of the first episode, which is available now wherever you get your
0:34.6	podcast.
0:37.2	Hello my name is Latif almach Tum I was born on December 5, 1985. My father is the Prime Minister of
0:47.6	UAE and the ruler of Dubai, Muhammad bin Rashid Saeed al-maktum.
0:52.0	In February of 2018, a princess from the royal family in Dubai
0:58.0	sneaked over to a friend's apartment and recorded a video.
1:02.0	I'm making this video because... apartment and recorded a video.
1:02.8	I'm making this video because it could be the last video I make.
1:07.3	It was part of a secret plan that took her years to put together to escape from Dubai.
1:16.8	The plan involved an inflatable dinghy and jet skis and a yacht secretly waiting out in the Indian Ocean.
1:24.0	Princess Latifah left her video with friends.
1:27.0	She told them to release it if something went wrong.
1:30.0	And if you are watching this video, it's not such a good thing.
1:34.0	Either I'm dead or I'm in a very, very bad situation.
1:38.0	She said, I don't know what's happening outside. I hear gunshots men and then we just heard nothing. It was just a complete blank.
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