Apple Sets Original Podcast Series ‘The Pirate of Prague’
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is moving forward with more original podcasts.
The company, via its Apple TV+ service, is launching The Pirate of Prague. The eight-part series is hosted by journalist Joe Nocera with the help of investigative journalist Peter Elkind and tells the story of the charming young Czech, Viktor Kožený.
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Kožený smooth-talked his super-wealthy Aspen neighbors and a Wall Street titan into investing huge sums of cash to snap up Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company, promising staggering returns. Sounds too good to be true, right?
It is the story of private jets, $20,000 dinners, and suitcases stuffed with cash. It’s also a tale about the collapse of communism, the free-for-all that followed, and the rise of the oligarchs. And it’s a story of plain-old human greed…of just how far the rich may go to get even richer.
Nocera and Elkind follow the trail, beginning in the Bahamas, where the charismatic financial genius has been lying low.
The series will launch on November 13. Listen to the trailer here.
The Pirate of Prague is produced by Hooked on Freddie producer Blanchard House with Ben Crighton as producer, Laurence Grissell as executive producer and Rosie Pye as creative director.
It is Apple’s latest original, debuting exclusively on its platform. Other series include The Line, Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy, Hooked, Project Unabom, Operation: Tradebom, Run Bambi Run and Missed Fortune.
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