A Great Listen!

Really enjoyed this audio, its rather a gripping story and nicely read. Takes you into an altogether other world.

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Don't believe anything you hear in the media

Engaging podcast about how one man conned the mainstream media. Tip of the iceberg in my view. The whole Iraq war was based on journos spewing lies too.

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Reads like a top notch spy thriller

Gripping listen! Page turner - I mean episode turner!!
Based on the book by the same name this is a must for anyone who liked a good story!!

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fascinating, infuriating and gripping

gripping podcast that I binge listened to (it's 2.28 am and I've got to be up at 6am) but Shiv deserves this. a beautifully crafted tale of intrigue, manipulation, narcissism and attention seeking. the toll it appears to have taken was too great a price for the character portrayed to us, who's nothing more than a loser in every regard. wishing you and your loved ones all the best shiv. highly recommended listening. off to buy the book now 👌🏻

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A gripping investigation into the role of truth

A real global terror, real personal tragedies. In a world where everything we feel safe about is based on the stories we want to believe. The Messenger is a must read for anyone interested in what truth is when it walks beside global terror and everyone seeks to exploit it. Utterly engrossing.

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When a story rings one's life...

The creators do a stellar job at capturing a decade of Shiv's adventure intertwined with a terrorist who was keen on giving up terrorism.
Sometimes we get carried away with the truth we want to believe in, that we start believing things that are too good to be true. This story teaches us that we humans are a gullible lot. We see what we want to see, we hear what we want to hear. We rarely take a second to question our beliefs, until something extraordinary happens, that could potentially put everything around us at risk, because we were going through the same mindset as the "boiling frog".
Absolutely moving story and shockingly something that truly happened. So it just makes one wonder, how we could expect, the average citizen to discern misinformation from the real information, if someone like Shiv, and his team of ambitious journalists could get into this trap.
Kudos to the people who opened up during the interviews, the emotional moments are really moving and I hope everyone is doing well.
Everything from the sound recording to the music, I absolutely loved it. the narration was fantastic, and kept me listening. I resisted downloading the entire set of episodes primarily to force me to listen to one episode every night before sleep. but quickly this turned out to be torture. I learned that this wasn't one of those things you listened to or read in the hope of falling asleep. It woke me up, with curiosity and made me go for finding out more about the characters involved.

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facinating

very intriguing story that I did not put down until the end. A great way to pass my Saturday evening, really good.

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Too long.

An interesting story but overly long for me. I understand that the author/narrator wanted to convey the effort put in and the length of his journey, but the whole thing could literally be summed up in a few sentences. For context and detail, maybe 4-6 episodes would have sufficed. Living in Manchester, I also found the recordings exposing jihadi philosophy provocative and distasteful. There will never ever be any belief strong enough to justify the slaughter of innocent people, Muslim or not.

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Very interesting!!

Great story!! I couldn't turn it off and ended up blasting all the way through it in one sitting. I could listen to this sh*t all day. really feel for the Journalist!! something fishy definitely went down!

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Extraordinary story

It is hard to believe that this story is true, except for the fact it is too extraordinary to be fictional. I enjoyed hearing an investigative story from Britain, but with high production values. An engaging structure and a range of interesting contributors made it a fascinating tale.

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