76 Episodes

  1. Introducing The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness

    Published: 11/4/2024

  2. Introducing Death of an Artist: Krasner and Pollock

    Published: 6/5/2024

  3. Introducing The Burden

    Published: 3/21/2024

  4. Episode 4: The Fugitive

    Published: 12/18/2023

  5. Episode 3: Money for Nothing

    Published: 12/11/2023

  6. Episode 2: The Go-Between

    Published: 12/4/2023

  7. Episode 1: The Nativity

    Published: 11/27/2023

  8. Introducing The Professor: Hunting for the Mafia's Missing Masterpiece

    Published: 11/22/2023

  9. Meeting Simon Willis: Unlocking the secrets of a stolen masterpiece

    Published: 11/20/2023

  10. Introducing Hidden Worlds

    Published: 11/13/2023

  11. Introducing Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

    Published: 9/12/2023

  12. Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal

    Published: 8/15/2023

  13. Introducing Ritually: Exploring spirituality in a secular world

    Published: 7/19/2023

  14. Two Journalists, Two Regimes, Two Trumped-Up Arrests

    Published: 7/5/2023

  15. How the US Women’s Soccer Team scored their victory for equal pay

    Published: 6/22/2023

  16. The Man For Whom the Underworld Shivers

    Published: 6/20/2023

  17. Reporting True Crime During the Crime: Meet Mitchell Prothero

    Published: 6/7/2023

  18. Free Evan Gershkovich: How a US reporter was imprisoned in Putin's Russia

    Published: 5/18/2023

  19. Introducing Night of Show: Prince's Super Bowl Comeback Shakes the Music Industry

    Published: 5/2/2023

  20. The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

    Published: 3/28/2023

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William Veres is in trouble. In 2018 he was arrested following the largest ever investigation by the Italian police’s art squad. They accuse him of running a pan-European art-smuggling ring with ties to the Sicilian mafia. He is alleged to have stolen $40 million worth of art and antiquities from Italy. Charged with 14 counts, including money laundering, forgery, wire fraud and conspiracy, he faces a jail term of up to 20 years. But he has a plan to get out of trouble. In this four-part podcast, host Simon Willis follows him as he puts that plan into action. It’s a story that takes listeners deep into the underworld, and into the dark heart of the most famous criminal organization of them all – Cosa Nostra. It is a story of drug dealers, hitmen, smugglers, spies – even a corrupt prime minister. And in the middle of it all is William Veres’s quest to save himself. How? By solving the coldest cold case in the history of art crime – the theft of Caravaggio’s Nativity. The Professor is a series for Hidden Worlds, the home of unbelievable true stories and gripping investigations into shadowy places. Stay subscribed to Hidden Worlds and get brand new series delivered to your favorite podcast app year-round. One podcast, endless stories. For more, visit brazen.fm/hidden-worlds. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://brazen.fm/plus/