“Hello, Jamie here. I know you’re expecting episode seven, but I’m afraid you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer…”
A thoroughly eyebrow raising, then furrowing 90-second edition of the best podcast yet produced by BBC Sounds. Forget Tunnel 29, the aggressively hyped but dragged-out series about digging from East to West Berlin in the 1960s. The Missing Cryptoqueen, released weekly since 19 September, is much more nimble, a real endeavour. Presenter/producers Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt have travelled across an upmarket marina in Bulgaria, a Kampala slum, a metallurgic factory in South Germany and a crystal-littered mansion in the Netherlands, all in search of Dr Ruja Ignatova, the glamorous and amoral founder of a fake crypto currency called OneCoin who persuaded thousands to part with their cash to fund her outrageously fraudulent enterprise.
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