Project Mind Control

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Dr Julia Shaw

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True Crime and Investigation

Criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows the story of Lana Ponting, a teenage runaway sent to Canada’s Allan Institute in 1958. Her story leads into a shadow world of experiments on children, covert CIA involvement and missing Indigenous children.

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Introducing... The Surgeon of St Helena
From the team behind Project Mind Control comes a new series, The Surgeon of St Helena. Join journalist Luke Jones as he investigates the arrival of a rogue surgeon on one of the world's most remote islands.St Helena is […]
Introducing... Strangely
Explore the overlooked oddities that deserve a deep dive and the downright bizarre gems buried in the notebooks of journalists and friends Poppy Damon and Luke Jones. From each side of the Atlantic, Poppy in New York […]
Nuns and Orphans
Hervé Bertrand was sold for $10 to be experimented on. His story leads us deep into Quebec's darkest secret: the Duplessis orphans, thousands of healthy children reclassified overnight as mentally ill. And will the […]
Reckless Doses
A self portrait triggers a young woman to be sent for psychiatric treatment, forever changing her life. Alyssa Ryvers tells the story of her mother Carol — a patient of Dr. Heinz Lehmann, the man who revolutionised […]

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