• August 1 2024
  1 min listen

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• June 26 2024
  41 min listen

  The Retreat, Ep. 5: The Insiders

  After hearing the podcast, former volunteers at Goenka retreats reach out to Madison to tell their stories

  
• June 5 2024
  26 min listen

  Power for Sale: Business as Usual

  More foreign interference scandals — involving Russia and China — broke in spring. It’s as if Qatargate was a gateway scandal, opening the floodgates for bigger and bolder ops.

  
• June 5 2024
  25 min listen

  Power for Sale: Belgiangate

  This was supposed to be a story about the EU’s only directly elected body cleaning up its act, ahead of June elections. What went wrong?

  
• May 29 2024
  28 min listen

  Power for Sale: Ocean’s Eleven

  The FT investigative team sets out to determine just who is at the centre of this scandal

  
• May 29 2024
  30 min listen

  Power for Sale: 'Bags full of money'

  Valentina learns of raids and arrests at the European parliament, and a scandal unfolds with one woman as the poster child

  
• May 16 2024
  2 min listen

  Introducing Untold: Power for Sale

  Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times.

  
• February 14 2024
  45 min listen

  The Retreat: Another Death

  Is the Goenka network aware of potential risks of meditation?

  
• February 7 2024
  40 min listen

  The Retreat: Jaqui’s Story

  Could a meditation retreat have led to a young woman’s death?

  
• January 31 2024
  44 min listen

  The Retreat: Ten Long Days

  Madison hears from others who claim they suffered after going on meditation retreats

  
• January 24 2024
  42 min listen

  The Retreat: Dear Madison

  Can intensive meditation cause psychological distress?

  
• December 21 2023
  2 min listen

  Introducing Untold: The Retreat

  Host Madison Marriage examines the world of the Goenka network, which promotes an intensive meditation known as Vipassana