Introducing The Runaway Princesses, from In the Dark

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheikh Mohammed’s family keep trying to run away? The New Yorker staff writer Heidi Blake joins In the Dark’s Madeleine Baran to tell the story of the royal women who risked everything to flee the brutality of one of the world’s most powerful men. In four episodes, drawing on thousands of pages of secret correspondence and never-before-heard audio recordings, “The Runaway Princesses” takes listeners behind palace walls, revealing a story of astonishing courage and cruelty.

“The Runaway Princesses” is a four-part narrative series from In the Dark and The New Yorker. To keep listening, follow In the Dark wherever you get your podcasts or via this link: https://link.chtbl.com/itd_f

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0:51.2	You might recall that the team that makes the award-winning podcast, In the Dark,
0:55.2	recently joined us here at The New Yorker. Season three of In the Dark is coming soon, but in the
1:00.1	meantime, they've paired up with the New Yorker's Heidi Blake and produced an extraordinary
1:03.9	miniseries based on Heidi's investigative reporting into Dubai's powerful royal family. It's called
1:09.6	The Runaway Princesses.
1:11.6	Keep listening for an excerpt of the first episode,
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1:17.9	Hello.
1:19.3	My name is Latif Al-Makhtum.
1:21.1	I was born on December 5, 1985.
1:25.3	My father is the Prime Minister of UAE and the ruler of Dubai,
1:30.4	Muhammad bin Rashid Saeed al-Macto.
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