Campside Presents: Big Sugar
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, exploitation and ultimately the truth. We travel from the Oval Office to the nightclubs of Havana to the sugarcane fields of Florida. Big Sugar is a deep dive into the inner...
Episodes
Introducing Origin Stories
Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drills down on a single work. What inspired it? How was it created, and why? What kind of chall…
Big Sugar I Bonus - Forced Labor and a Government Ban
Charity Ryerson investigates human rights and environmental abuse allegations against multinational corporations everyday. But what she and her team found in Central Romana worker camps was like nothing they'd ever seen before. Has the suga…
Big Sugar I Bonus - Who Bears the Cost
Meet Kina Phillips, part of the grass roots effort in Florida to fight cane burning and encourage the sugar companies to embrace green-harvesting methods. Then, Celeste digs deeper into how the pending Farm Bill affects the cost of sugar. B…
Big Sugar I Bonus - Black Snow Falls in Florida
Reporter Lulu Ramadan set out to cover the health effects of burning cane. Now, for the first time, there is data linking Florida residents’ respiratory illnesses to Big Sugar. Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagi…
Big Sugar I Episode 9 - Trench Warfare
There’s one last jury trial left, one last shot at forcing the sugar companies to make good on unpaid wages. And Dave Gorman miraculously finds new evidence that could clinch it. But that’s when an obscure 150-year-old law comes into play, …
Big Sugar I Episode 8 - The Battle of the Swamp
At the intersection of sugar, nature and influence, you find yourself in just one place: the Everglades, an environmental wonder and disaster. The fight for control and the fight to clean up the massive waterway from agricultural pollution …
Big Sugar I Episode 7 - Bittersweet
Meet Cristin Kearns, a dentist turned detective. She's on a mission to uncover the darkly shrewd public relations strategies that the Sugar industry has used to burnish its image and conceal the health impacts of its product. If this sound…
Big Sugar I Episode 6 - The Decision and the Drama
The case continues as the lawyers seek justice for the cane cutters. The jury reaches a decision. Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content…
Big Sugar I Episode 5 - The American Dream
Host Celeste Headlee goes on the hunt for the Fanjul brothers in Palm Beach, Florida and uncovers an even more devastating truth about the American sugar industry’s past. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the movie The Godfather play a part in our …
Big Sugar I Episode 4 - Without Sugar, There is No Country
There is a saying in Cuba: “Without sugar there is no country.” We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine a light on where this story really begin…
Big Sugar I Episode 3 - The Case that Consumed Them
The lawyers gather evidence as they prepare to take on the biggest players in the sugar industry. Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, but who are they really up against? Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagin…
Big Sugar I Episode 2 - The Grass is Always Greener
Crusading lawyer Edward Tuddenham hears about the sugarcane workers - the conditions, the injuries and unpaid wages. With Harley-riding, former intelligence officer Dave Gorman as co-counsel, he takes on the powerful sugar industry on behal…
Big Sugar I Episode 1 - Welcome to Blood, Sweat and Tears
Meet Victor and Selvin, who initially feel lucky to travel from Jamaica to Florida to cut sugarcane. The experiences of cane cutters like them lead two ambitious journalists to try and uncover the devastating truth about the labor supportin…
Campside Presents: Big Sugar
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and t…
Listen to Infamous: From Conned to Cupid
Infamous: From Conned to Cupid tells the story of Kami Verne, a woman who thought she’d married the man of her dreams—an entrepreneur with a big heart and even bigger personality. But when investors start asking questions about his latest b…
Listen to Infamous: From Conned to Cupid
Infamous: From Conned to Cupid tells the story of Kami Verne, a woman who thought she’d married the man of her dreams—an entrepreneur with a big heart and even bigger personality. But when investors start asking questions about his latest b…
White Devil I Episode 13 - Bonus: Catching Up With Jasmine Hartin
It's been many months since our show wrapped, but Jasmine Hartin's story obviously continues — now in Turks and Caicos. Host Josh Dean checks in to see if her tumultuous life has settled down at all, and especially to find out if there's be…
Episode 13 - Bonus: Catching Up With Jasmine Hartin
It's been many months since our show wrapped, but Jasmine Hartin's story obviously continues — now in Turks and Caicos. Host Josh Dean checks in to see if her tumultuous life has settled down at all, and especially to find out if there's be…
Introducing: We Came to the Forest
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility being built in Atlanta. She decides to join a group of activists attempting to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Fore…
Introducing: We Came to the Forest
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility being built in Atlanta. She decides to join a group of activists attempting to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Fore…
Introducing: Chameleon Dr. Miracle
A wellness center some called Miracle Ranch, nestled in the scenic mountains of Southern California, promised a luxurious escape and a path to wellness through clean, alkaline living. Its leader, Dr. Robert O. Young, attracted wealthy clien…
Introducing Shell Game: A Hilarious, Immersive AI Experiment
What would happen if you created a digital copy of yourself, powered by AI, and set it loose in the world? In what has been named one of Vulture’s best podcasts of 2024, longtime tech reporter Evan Ratliff sets off on a strange experiment t…
Introducing: Noble
In the winter of 2002, police discovered more than 300 bodies on one property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia. What followed was one of the biggest and most expensive investigations in the history of the American South. To get to the bot…
Introducing: Beyond All Repair
This is Chapter 1: Boxes Beyond All Repair, a 10-part true crime investigation into a cold case from WBUR and ZSP Media.Imagine if, one day, you are accused of something. Something horrible, violent, heinous. Something you swear you did not…
Crime Story: Josh Dean goes behind the scenes of White Devil
In this special bonus conversation, Josh Dean sits down with Crime Story host Kathleen Goldhar to go behind the scenes of White Devil, where nothing is ever as it seems.You can listen to more incredible tales of true crime every week on Cri…
Crime Story: Josh Dean goes behind the scenes of White Devil
In this special bonus conversation, Josh Dean sits down with Crime Story host Kathleen Goldhar to go behind the scenes of White Devil, where nothing is ever as it seems.You can listen to more incredible tales of true crime every week on Cri…
Episode 12 - Breakout
After more than two years of near constant chaos, Jasmine Hartin finally gets her day in court. But what is winning or losing, after all of this?Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campside…
White Devil I Episode 12 - Breakout
After more than two years of near constant chaos, Jasmine Hartin finally gets her day in court. But what is winning or losing, after all of this?Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campside…
White Devil I Episode 11 - Lionfish
In Belize, as one local expert told us, "is like an onion". Every layer you peel back reveals another layer of power operating behind the scenes.Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campside…
Episode 11 - Lionfish
In Belize, as one local expert told us, "is like an onion". Every layer you peel back reveals another layer of power operating behind the scenes.Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campside…
White Devil I Episode 10 - Better Call Dickie
What is the legal case against Jasmine Hartin? And what really happened that night on the pier?Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campsidemedia.com/joinThis is a Campside Media Production …
Episode 10 - Better Call Dickie
What is the legal case against Jasmine Hartin? And what really happened that night on the pier?Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campsidemedia.com/joinThis is a Campside Media Production …
Episode 9 - Welcome to the jungle
As Jasmine's problems mount, she fears for her life, and retreats to a compound in the jungle.Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campsidemedia.com/joinThis is a Campside Media Production L…
White Devil I Episode 9 - Welcome to the jungle
As Jasmine's problems mount, she fears for her life, and retreats to a compound in the jungle.Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campsidemedia.com/joinThis is a Campside Media Production …
Episode 8 - Waterloo
Overnight, Andrew leaves Belize with the twins -- announcing the sudden move to everyone (including Jasmine) by press release. Where's he going? Turks and Caicos, another place with a long and complicated Ashcroft family history.Find out mo…
White Devil I Episode 8 - Waterloo
Overnight, Andrew leaves Belize with the twins -- announcing the sudden move to everyone (including Jasmine) by press release. Where's he going? Turks and Caicos, another place with a long and complicated Ashcroft family history.Find out mo…
White Devil I Episode 7 - Unbelizable
Just when it seems like we've seen everything, Jasmine is accused of ordering a hit on the Commissioner of Police!Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campsidemedia.com/joinThis is a Campsid…
Episode 7 - Unbelizable
Just when it seems like we've seen everything, Jasmine is accused of ordering a hit on the Commissioner of Police!Find out more about Campside Media, follow us @campside_media or join our community at campsidemedia.com/joinThis is a Campsid…
Episode 6 - The Long Shadow
After an unbelievable revelation that Michael Ashcroft -- the grandfather of Jasmine Hartin’s twins -- seems to have managed a rock band that vanished in the 1960s, we head to London to uncover the truth.Find out more about Campside Media, …
White Devil I Episode 6 - The Long Shadow
After an unbelievable revelation that Michael Ashcroft -- the grandfather of Jasmine Hartin’s twins -- seems to have managed a rock band that vanished in the 1960s, we head to London to uncover the truth.Find out more about Campside Media, …