"How to go undercover" with independent journalist Elena Ledda and investigative reporter Nikolai Atefie

Joan and Kathryn were adopted from Greece in 1955 under strange circumstances. They were part of an international adoption scandal that sent thousands of Greek babies to America during the Cold War years. Join journalist Katerina Bakogianni as she tries to unravel what exactly happened. "Born Greek - Made American" is a co-production of Melon Media and iMEdD. It is based on the book “Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?” by Gonda Van Steen (University of Michigan Press 2019). “Born Greek - Made American” has been nominated in the “Moment of Compelling Storytelling” category at the 2024 International Women’s Podcast Awards.

A US Marine searches for the ancient relics discovered by Agatha Christie during excavations in Mesopotamia. Henry Kissinger tries to prevent the publication of a book on the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a detective walks around the Manhattan subway with a frieze of an ancient Pompeian temple. Journalist Aris Chatzistefanou traveled to New York City on a special journalistic assignment for iMEdD, exposing the connections of major museums to antiquities collectors, auction houses and illegal antiquities networks that span the globe.

A cross-border investigation by journalist Kostas Koukoumakas on the illegal and legal cannabis economy, through reporting in Greece, North Macedonia, and Albania. Parts of the investigation have been published in "BBC News", "VICE" and also in the newspapers "DIE ZEIT" and "Courrier International". In this podcast, you will listen to the original audio excerpts, unpublished material, and fresh interviews covering the latest developments on the issue. Suggested listening mode: Start with episode 1 (Albania) and continue in succession to unravel the thread of the investigation as it actually moved forward.