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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Sailors, smugglers and millions of dollars of cocaine. A transatlantic trip of a lifetime goes wrong and lives change forever. It’s a journey from Brazil, which ends up in Cape Verde and prison. The question is: where is Fox? The new season is coming soon. Subscribe or follow now, so you get Finding Mr Fox and new episodes of previous seasons automatically.
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0:00.0 | You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one. |
0:06.0 | I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
0:11.0 | I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of |
0:13.7 | podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one |
0:18.9 | that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next |
0:26.1 | fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its |
0:31.5 | audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this |
0:34.6 | podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds. |
0:39.4 | In the middle of the ocean two young Brazilian sailors were on the voyage of a lifetime. |
0:48.0 | For me it was all new. I was really excited. |
0:52.0 | They've been hired to help deliver a newly renovated yacht to its British owner, |
0:57.0 | thousands of miles away in Europe. |
1:00.0 | For me it was going to be a great adventure and an opportunity to gain a lot of experience. |
1:05.1 | It was my dream, not only to be the captain of my own boat, but of my own life. |
1:11.2 | But the crossing is far from straightforward. |
1:14.0 | When we left there was this wonderful feeling, |
1:18.0 | but it was only the beginning of a nightmare. |
1:21.0 | Land finally appears on the horizon, but soon after arriving, the boat is swarming with police. |
1:28.0 | They say they are the warrant to search the boat. |
1:31.0 | Obviously it's no joke. Half a ten of cocaine. the police find more cocaine stashed elsewhere, more than 1.1 tons in total, worth about a hundred million |
1:46.3 | dollars if it had reached its final destination. I felt betrayed, I felt cheated, |
1:52.1 | like I'd been fooled by someone. |
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