Veil of Beads, Part 2/3: The Ritual | Investigation

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Everywhere on Earth has its own flavors of greed, corruption and lies. And everywhere produces its own champions - beacons of light in the murk. In Sub-Saharan Africa, that champion is Anas Aremeyaw Anas - investigative reporter extraordinaire. Hiding his face behind a veil of beads, Anas goes deep undercover to expose the rot at society's heart. In Part 2, Vanessa Kirby follows Anas and a rookie journalist, Henry Mhango, into a dangerous confrontation with a gang of unscrupulous ritual killers. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. Music by Nick Ryan. Henry Mhango is voiced by Kelvin Maxwell Ngoma.

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0:00.0	This episode of True Spies contains accounts of violence towards children.
0:04.3	Listen to discretion is advised.
0:06.5	Incoming transmission.
0:08.7	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:15.3	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:19.1	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:25.1	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:31.1	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:34.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:38.8	This is True Spies.
0:41.1	So it's a life and death situation whenever you are dealing with ritual meds.
0:45.8	Because when they are skilled killers and it's something that they do daily,
0:50.8	they can tend their anger on you at any time.
0:53.6	So the dangers were clearly alive.
0:56.0	We had to be extra extra careful.
0:58.3	But it was a story that we had to tell.
1:01.2	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies.
1:06.3	Fail of beads, part two, the ritual.
1:15.6	In the deepest words of rural Malawi,
1:18.3	a confrontation is about to reach boiling point.
1:21.9	A lot of people come into us.
1:25.5	We could hear their noise and we realized that it was getting pretty dark too.
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