Veil of Beads, Part 3/3: The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Investigation

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 36 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 3, an investigation into endemic corruption within Ghana's soccer industry has tragic consequences for Anas and his team. Vanessa Kirby narrates. 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.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	I've always said that when they cover journalism,
0:37.2	if you are not passionate, don't get into it.
0:40.0	Journalism is like a hot kitchen.
0:42.0	If you don't have the ability to stand the heat, you get out.
0:45.2	It's difficult.
0:46.8	But who said we thought journalism was going to be a tea party?
0:50.8	I'm Vanessa Kirby, and this is True Spies.
0:54.8	Vail of Beads Part 3.
0:58.0	The good, the bad, and the beautiful.
1:05.2	If a man makes a life out of fighting corruption,
1:08.0	he must become acquainted with controversy, with danger, with threat.
1:13.2	We knew people would fight.
1:15.2	What we had to do was to think on our feet and get appropriate remedies
1:22.4	to first or or to quail in the form of threat that comes.
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