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Narco Warriors: Secrets From The Global Drug War

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Season 2 Preview: The Forever War, Legalisation & More

June 29, 2026 · 1 min

Narco Warriors is taking a summer break, but Season 2 is coming in the autumn, and it's bigger than ever. Lindsay Charlton previews what's ahead: the scale of today's drug trade, what modern law enforcement is actually doing (and whether…
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Living With The Beast: British Customs Officers On The Front Line Of Colombia's Cartel Wars

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This is what it means for British drug liaison officers who live with the beast. By the mid-1990s, a small and largely unknown cadre of British customs officers were living and working at the heart of the global cocaine trade. Not in…
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In April 2026, Europol announced the interception of eight vessels in the Atlantic. Eleven tonnes of cocaine were seized, and 54 people were arrested. They called it a cocaine highway - a sophisticated network moving drugs from Latin…
The Myth, The Man, The Legend: EXCLUSIVE Interview With The Undercover Officer Behind The Netflix Hit

May 25, 2026 · 52 min

He spent 10 years living as someone else. He infiltrated heroin gangs, cocaine cartels and cannabis networks. Now, thanks to a hit Netflix drama, the world is finally getting to know one of Britain's most extraordinary undercover…

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Crocodiles, Pablo Escobar and 300 Tonnes of Cocaine: Luis Navia In His Own Words

May 18, 2026 · 56 min

For 25 years Luis Navia was one of the most wanted cocaine traffickers in the world, and almost nobody knew his name. Cuban-American, Georgetown-educated, he moved as much as 300 tonnes of cocaine from the Colombian cartels to the streets…
The Women of the War on Drugs: “They Didn't See Us Coming"

May 11, 2026 · 58 min

They joined the same institution, in the same era, in a world that was almost entirely male. But Aimee Lisle and Natalie Reynolds took very different paths. Lisle became one of Britain's top surveillance officers, tailing drug couriers…
Sun, Sangria and Serious Organised Crime: The Costa Del Crime Story

May 4, 2026 · 41 min

They were train robbers, bank raiders and drug lords. And they'd found the perfect hideout. A sun-drenched strip of southern Spain, where Britain's most wanted went to disappear. No extradition, no questions asked. The Costa del Sol was…
Britain's Most Wanted Drug Lord, Belgium's Cocaine Crisis & Netflix's 'Legends' Exposed

April 27, 2026 · 56 min

They locked him up, seized his millions, and dismantled his empire piece by piece. But every single time, Mickey Green walked free. One of Britain's most wanted criminals for 30 years, Green ran cocaine and cannabis networks from Morocco…
The World's Second Oldest Profession

April 20, 2026 · 38 min

Before cocaine, before cartels and before borders as we know them, there was smuggling. Former UK Customs officer and de facto drug war historian Mike Gough Cooper takes us deep into the fascinating history of what he calls the world’s…
The Man Who Supplied Britain’s Heroin But Dodged a Murder Conviction

April 13, 2026 · 40 min

The inside scoop on the man who helped create Britain’s heroin market, and the secret war to stop him. Gigi Bakir was a ruthless Turkish Cypriot kingpin who built the UK’s first industrial-scale heroin operation in the 1970s. From knife…
The Afghan Kidnapping: Inside the Mujahideen Caves & The 3kg Mule

April 6, 2026 · 47 min

An officer kidnapped in Afghanistan, the drug Mule carrying three kilograms of cocaine in his stomach, staying alive in Africa - and taking on the Turkish Connection. They were invited to an arms fair. They ended up in chains. Deep inside…

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The true story of how the narcotics trade went global and how a secret war still shapes our world, told by the investigators who lived it. ***As featured in Radio Times***