Listen up: ten of our favourite podcasts

Crowdsourced from Global Witness campaigners and investigators and taking you from Catford to Central America, our picks provide fascinating insights into some of the issues we work on and the techniques used to tackle them.  Plug in your headphones…

Ever wondered how an earth-shattering story gets broken? Wonder no more as The Tip Off takes you from anonymous sources to undercover investigations and navigating legal minefields before final publication. This episode features the reporter from Süddeutsche Zeitung who was integral to breaking the Panama Papers data leak that shook the world in 2016. 

Produced by the non-partisan and not-for-profit Centre for Investigative Reporting, Reveal aims to tell every side of America’s most important stories. In this episode, host Al Letson heads to Texas to explore the effects of Hurricane Harvey on the area’s oil and chemical plants that make up the nation’s largest petrochemical complex.

Narrated by the novelist and playwright Peter Jukes, this real-crime series traces the connections between the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan – a private investigator – in South London and the web of relations between the government, media and Metropolitan Police Force. 

Subscribe to this podcast for the best of the Guardian’s long-form reporting on culture, politics and new thinking. In this edition, Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein looks at how environmental and social crises are exploited by big business to boost profits.

Data is becoming ever more important for organisations like ours - from accurately mapping deforestation to analysing financial data or identifying corrupt practices. If you’re still stuck in the dark ages when it comes to modelling, machine learning and coding, then Data Skeptic will take you through the key areas along with some of the world’s top experts. Start with this episode on some of the most basic concepts in statistics – false positives and false negatives.

Recorded in the aftermath of the Panama Papers, this episode of Private Eye’s typically witty and acerbic podcast examines the role of offshore tax havens in the world economy. 

As China invests billions of dollars in the African continent, this podcast will give you a deeper understanding of an increasingly important relationship. This episode focuses on the timber trade.

The New York Public Library Podcast comprises discussions with renowned experts, academics, musicians, artists, scientists and thinkers, all recorded in front of a live audience. We’ve picked this episode featuring author Robert A. Caro on the influence of money in New York and politics in general.

If the topic is important or interesting there’s a good chance that NPR’s Planet Money will have already covered it with a healthy dose of humour. Looking at shell companies, anonymously owned property and money laundering, this episode takes to the streets of New York City to try and find out who really owns Apartment 5B.

Finally, we couldn’t resist including one of our own, recorded during our investigation into the political and economic forces that make Honduras so deadly for those defending their land and environment. Hear from people who have lost loved ones, friends and colleagues - or have themselves been targeted for taking a stand.