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Whistleblowers

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About the show

Would you risk it all - your career, your life, even the lives of your family - for what you believe in? In Whistleblowers, we explore the biggest, most bizarre lies in history, through the eyes of those who risked absolutely everything to expose them. Every Tuesday, we delve into captivating stories of corruption. There are respected spiritual leaders who ask way too much of their followers. Doctors with sinister motives. Governments that value profit over all else. And at the heart of every tale is a whistleblower who put everything on the line to tell the truth, and paid the price. Whistleblowers is a Spotify Original from Parcast.