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Introducing: A Show About Animals
Today we are sharing an episode from one of our newest series -- A Show About Animals. This season, we tell the strange and wonderful story of the wildly famous Koko the “talking” Gorilla.
In the early 1970s, a grad student named Penny Patterson set out to investigate a big question: is language unique to humans? So she begins an ambitious experiment -- with the help of a young gorilla named Koko. Pretty soon, Penny says Koko is learning sign language. But, of course, that’s not the whole story.
You can listen to our weekly series, A Show About Animals, in all the places you get your podcasts.
A Show About Animals is hosted and reported by Arielle Duhaime-Ross and produced by Julia Nutter and Pete Lang-Stanton. Our associate producer is Leily Rezvani. Sound design and original score by Pran Bandi, with additional support from Steve Bone.
Annie Aviles is our executive editor. Our executive producer and VP of Vice Audio is Kate Osborn.
Special thanks to Maximo Anderson for fact-checking.
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Introducing: The Crisis
01:58||Season 1A coal company from Alabama. Two murdered union leaders in Colombia. A civil war. And a new way of looking at environmental crime.1. START HERE: Victor and Valmore [English]
10:06||Season 1, Ep. 1START HERE. Two coal miners are murdered setting off a decades-long saga that changes the lives of people in Colombia and the United States forever.2. CHAPTER 1: The Union [English]
42:09||Season 1, Ep. 2A coal company from Alabama opens up a mine in Colombia during a civil war. And members of the miners union start receiving death threats.3. CHAPTER 2: Witnesses [English]
20:06||Season 1, Ep. 3An American lawyer decides to take on the union’s case. But first he needs to find people willing to testify.4. CHAPTER 3: The Fish Dies by Opening its Mouth [English]
39:31||Season 1, Ep. 4The trial is on. Terry’s out to prove that Drummond had a hand in the murders. But will an Alabama jury agree?6. CHAPTER 5: Confessions [English]
36:47||Season 1, Ep. 6Our reporting turns up other accounts of how the killings went down -- including an interview with the man who went to prison for the murders.This episode was altered for clarity since it was originally published on March 30, 2021.5. CHAPTER 4: Hung Out to Dry [English]
42:58||Season 1, Ep. 5What do a Drummond executive, an ex-NBA star, and a small town outside of Birmingham have in common? A bribery scandal that rocked the state of Alabama.7. EPILOGUE: 20 Years Later [English]
19:27||Season 1, Ep. 7A new investigation in Colombia promises answers.
8. PRÓLOGO: Victor y Valmore [Español]
10:11||Season 1, Ep. 8EMPEZAMOS AQUÍ. Dos líderes sindicales asesinados. Y sus muertes revelan una historia mayor sobre combustibles fósiles, poder y conflictos civiles.