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Estimated from 36 chart positions in 36 markets.
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- 🇬🇧GB · Documentary#5230K to 100K
- 🇺🇸US · Documentary#1165K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · Documentary#1315K to 30K
- 🇩🇪DE · Documentary#1725K to 30K
- 🇮🇳IN · Documentary#4830K to 100K
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66K to 243K🎙 Daily cadence·24 episodes·Last published 1mo ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
220K to 811K🇬🇧12%🇮🇳12%🇮🇪12%+33 more - Active Followers
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88K to 324K
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Toxic Legacy: Bonus episode with Samantha Power
May 4, 2026
32m 30s
Opus Dei, Ep. 4: The closest tabernacle to the White House
Apr 17, 2026
38m 30s
Opus Dei, Ep. 3: Snow on the mountaintops
Apr 10, 2026
33m 30s
Opus Dei, Ep. 2: Formation
Apr 1, 2026
30m 58s
Opus Dei, Ep. 1: Whistling
Mar 25, 2026
36m 08s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/4/26 |  Toxic Legacy: Bonus episode with Samantha Power✨ | lead poisoningsupply chain+3 | Samantha Power | US Agency for International DevelopmentLEAPP Alliance+1 | Ecuador | lead poisoningSamantha Power+3 | — | 32m 30s | |
| 4/17/26 | Opus Dei, Ep. 4: The closest tabernacle to the White House✨ | Opus Deiconservative movement+3 | — | Opus DeiFinancial Times | Washington | Opus DeiWashington+3 | — | 38m 30s | |
| 4/10/26 | Opus Dei, Ep. 3: Snow on the mountaintops✨ | conservative think-tanksOpus Dei+3 | — | Opus DeiFinancial Times+1 | elite universities | Opus Deielite universities+3 | — | 33m 30s | |
| 4/1/26 | Opus Dei, Ep. 2: Formation✨ | spiritual formationcharacter development+5 | — | Opus DeiChurch | — | homosexualityOpus Dei+5 | — | 30m 58s | |
| 3/25/26 | Opus Dei, Ep. 1: Whistling✨ | faithwork+4 | Sarah | Opus DeiFinancial Times | — | Opus Deiholiness+3 | — | 36m 08s | |
| 3/11/26 | Introducing Untold: Opus Dei✨ | Opus DeiCatholic organization+4 | — | Opus DeiFinancial Times+4 | — | Opus DeiFinancial Times+5 | — | 1m 09s | |
| 2/17/26 | FT long read: The Broker✨ | arms dealinggeopolitics+4 | — | Financial TimesAcast | Virginia BeachSyria+4 | arms dealerWill Somerindyke+5 | — | 36m 35s | |
| 12/31/25 |  Tech Tonic: Defying death✨ | ageinglongevity+3 | David GemsMatt Kaeberlein | RevivUCL+1 | — | ageing researchlongevity+3 | — | 36m 32s | |
| 12/24/25 |  Swamp Notes: The Bethlehem Project✨ | politicseconomics+4 | — | Financial TimesSwamp Notes | Bethlehem Pennsylvania | Bethlehemimmigration+5 | — | 39m 10s | |
| 11/5/25 |  Toxic Legacy, Ep. 3: The Whisper and Scream✨ | lead poisoninghousing standards+4 | Laura Hughes | LEAPP AllianceFT.com+1 | Leeds | lead poisoninghealth standards+6 | — | 27m 40s | |
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| 10/29/25 |  Toxic Legacy, Ep. 2: Painted Over✨ | lead painthousing safety+3 | — | LEAPP AllianceFinancial Times | UK | lead painthousing+5 | — | 28m 39s | |
| 10/22/25 |  Toxic Legacy, Ep. 1: Silent Danger | Laura Hughes receives a tip that horses are dropping dead in Wales. As she investigates, she finds decades of academic studies researching the problem. She learns these aren’t isolated incidents. Something is spreading across the countryside. It’s undetectable to humans, nobody knows it’s there — until they fall ill.For more information on how to live safely with lead, please visit the LEAPP Alliance website.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/8/25 |  Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy | Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You might be living with lead and not know it: the toxin is often invisible to the human eye, but wreaks havoc on our bodies once we’re exposed. The first episode of Untold: Toxic Legacy launches October 22.For information on how to live safely with lead, please visit the LEAPP Alliance website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/10/24 |  Vote for The Retreat in the Signal Awards! | The Retreat has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Health and Wellness category! It's a listener choice award, which means we need your help. If you enjoyed The Retreat, please vote for the show to win here. We appreciate your support! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/26/24 |  The Retreat, Ep. 5: The Insiders | Since the podcast published earlier this year, Madison’s inbox has been filled with emails. Some were from former volunteers at the Goenka network who wished to speak out. In this bonus episode of The Retreat, they pull back the curtain on why they believe some people are not being supported when they come on retreats and find themselves psychologically unraveling.Translations of Sayagyi U Ba Khin’s discourses from Daniel M Stuart and Swe Swe Mon can be found in the paper: Local Cure, Global Chant: Perfomring Theravedic Awakening in the Footsteps of Ledi Sayadaw. For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, or Samaritans in the UK.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/24 |  Power for Sale, Ep. 4: Business as Usual | With elections just weeks away, and news of more foreign interference scandals in the European parliament, the reporting team gives an accounting of where the investigation and the suspects are to date.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/24 |  Power for Sale, Ep. 3: Belgiangate | It seemed like the Belgians had everything they needed to bring a case against the people involved with Qatargate, but the investigation hit a wall. Valentina and the reporting team speak to the prosecution side to find out why.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/24 |  Power for Sale, Ep. 2: Ocean’s Eleven | Through wiretap transcripts and surveillance footage, captured by Belgian intelligence, Valentina and the investigative reporting team learn just who is involved with this scandal and how it all worked.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/24 |  Power for Sale, Ep. 1: 'Bags full of money' | Valentina learns of raids and arrests at the European parliament and a scandal unfolds. They talk to the face of the scandal, Eva Kaili, and hear about the day of the raids through her eyes.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/16/24 |  Introducing Untold: Power for Sale | Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. In Untold: Power for Sale, host Valentina Pop and a team of FT correspondents from all over Europe investigate what happened in the Qatargate scandal, where EU lawmakers were accused of accepting payments from Qatar to whitewash its image.Untold: Power for Sale airs May 29. Follow wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/14/24 |  The Retreat, Ep. 4: Another Death | Madison Marriage hears of another death, one that happened five years before Jaqui’s. Was the Goenka network aware of the dangers of intensive meditation? Marriage asks what the organisation is doing, if anything, to protect people from harm.For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, or Samaritans in the UK.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/24 |  The Retreat, Ep. 3: Jaqui’s Story | Jaqui was 22 when she signed up to a 10-day Goenka retreat. It was the last known thing she did before she died. This is Jaqui’s story.For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US or Samaritans in the UK.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/31/24 |  The Retreat, Ep. 2: Ten Long Days | Emily’s twin sister spirals after going on a Goenka retreat, and she’s not the only one. Madison Marriage hears multiple accounts of terror, hallucinations and psychosis. Was meditation just the catalyst that unleashed psychological problems? Or did this network of silent meditation retreats actually cause their suffering?For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.We also spoke to Miguel Farias and Jonny Say to corroborate claims in the podcast about adverse meditation experiences. You can find out more about Farias’s work here, and Say’s here.If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US or Samaritans in the UK.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/24/24 |  The Retreat, Ep. 1: Dear Madison | Madison Marriage receives an email from a desperate father named Stephen. Over the past five years, he says, his twin daughters have changed drastically. They were bright and outgoing, with exciting plans for their future. But over their early twenties, they became increasingly distressed, struggling to eat or sleep and disassociating from normal life. Stephen believes the root of his daughters’ problems is a particular network of intensive meditation retreats.For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US or Samaritans in the UK.Note: This podcast previously included a YouTube clip that described a Vipassana meditation retreat that was not linked to the Goenka network, as originally implied.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/21/23 |  Introducing Untold: The Retreat | Introducing Untold, a new podcast from the special investigations team at the Financial Times. In its first series, The Retreat, host Madison Marriage examines the world of the Goenka network, which promotes a type of intensive meditation known as Vipassana. Thousands of people go on Goenka retreats every year. People rave about them. But some people go to these meditation retreats, and they suffer. They might feel a deep sense of terror, or a break with reality. And on the other side, they’re not themselves anymore. Untold: The Retreat launches Jan. 24. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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38 placements across 36 markets.
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38 placements across 36 markets.