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Why have Russian resorts sprung up in seaside towns in Northern Cyprus? What can Sarajevo's local politics tell us about Trump, Putin and Erdogan? How has the Syrian revolution turned the state into a new Cold War frontier? In Hinterlands, acclaimed correspondent Hannah Lucinda Smith reveals the...

When Garda officer Detective Sergeant Roisin MacKenna is called to the scene of a murder not far from the border between the North and South of Ireland she soon finds that boundaries, both geographical and moral, become blurred. A body has been found buried in an Irish peat bog, identified as a...

What would domestic terrorists do with a couple of nuclear bombs? Andy Kelsey is a reporter who may have just stumbled on the story of a lifetime. He's infiltrated a white separatist group in the Ozarks, an underground organization ready to fight and die - and kill - for their extreme beliefs. The deeper Kelsey gets in the group, the more he's trusted, and the bigger his story becomes. Until he realizes the shocking extent of their scheme.

Aufgrund einer seltenen Schlafkrankheit, Narkolepsie genannt, muss die Hamburger Kriminalkommissarin Bette Hansen frühzeitig den Dienst quittieren und somit auch ihren aktuellen Mordfall ungelöst im Präsidium zurücklassen. Nun versucht sie, das Beste aus ihrer Situation zu machen. Doch eines Morgens findet sie in ihrem Garten ein Holzscheit mit demselben Zeichen, das auch der Täter in ihrem letzten Fall am Tatort hinterließ. Bette ist sehr schnell klar: Sie muss trotz ihrer Krankheit wieder ermitteln, zu ihrem eigenen Schutz, aber auch zum Schutz weiterer möglicher Opfer.

I was a Hunter, and I honored the Code. For my services to humanity and for leading a "proper" life, I was to be rewarded. A new life after death, and a new world to give me some well-deserved rest. But something went wrong. Once again, I must fight. The Monsters that face me here are far more terrifying than those of my past life. They are cleverer, crueler, more unpredictable. And their name is.

Am Stammtisch im "Nobody“ ist alles Spiel und gleichzeitig Ernst. Heute sind Ersatzspieler nicht notwendig. Lothar Altmann nimmt einen anderen Aufsichtsratposten wahr. Der Drexler ist stumm, der Pudel schlafende Kulisse. "Karo zugeben", verlangt der Fleischhauer, der fitgespritzt ist und die Karte auf den Tisch wirft. "Hab ich nicht", sagt der Postenkommandant. Er will den Stich mit seiner kleinsten Tarockkarte machen. Gleich muss er sich korrigieren, weil er mit Schrecken die Karo-Dame in seinem Blatt entdeckt hat.

Kestrel awakes in the woods without a real name or his memories. Before him are twelve strangers, an altar on fire, and bones hanging from the trees like wind chimes. He’s to be initiated into their group so they may fulfill their purpose: head to the mountain of the so-called gods, have a feast, and bring about the end of the world. Kestrel is willing to risk it all to escape, but without any memories, he knows he must play along until he finds a way out. It won’t be easy.

When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it. 

A Pulitzer grantee’s timely work of reportage from the borderlands of Europe, Russia, and Turkey, where brewing conflicts mark a significant fault line in shifting geopolitics. Hannah Lucinda Smith, a Pulitzer grantee and acclaimed foreign correspondent, has devoted well over a decade to...

Husband and wife team talk about stories. Reviewing favorite stories, discussing storytelling conventions, and examining it's place in our lives. All episodes are spoilers, you have been warned.

1896. In the vast network of the Niger Delta waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient kingdom of Benin is under siege. Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect his adopted homeland's sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the British while balancing his commerce with the White man's world. Brendan's reality is fractured by the arrival of....

A gorgeous collection of twelve “lush and deliciously sinister fairy tales” (Kelly Link) by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country! Before The Hazel Wood, there was Althea Proserpine’s Tales from the Hinterland... Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal...

Courage for the journey beyond the status quo. Topics include education, culture, and economics, as well as faith, family, and philosophy. (Podcast postponed as of Jan 2021. Writing can be found at https://medium.com/the-hinterlands).

Discover exciting new research illuminating the most mysterious centuries of British history. How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roman citizens in Western Europe, the Britons established long-lived kingdoms, resisting...

On 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand people captive at a school in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. Working as a correspondent, Tom Parfitt witnessed the bloody climax in which 314 hostages died, more than half of them children. The experience left Tom emotionally shredded, struggling to find a way to return to his life in Moscow and put to rest the ghosts of the Beslan siege. Having long been fascinated by the mountainous North Caucasus, Tom turned to his love of walking as a source of both recuperation and discovery.

Explains the Dark Man phenomenon through centuries-old folklore and mythology, testimony from British witch trials, and modern accounts Challenges the simplistic concept of the Devil as “evil,” explaining how encounters with this entity can reveal one’s life purpose and how the...

The Deschanels are scattered across Europe, each in search of what matters most. Finding himself closer to Ana every day, Finn must exercise patience, and follow his Quinlan training, to prevent losing her forever. Aleksandr sees the world through a different lens, as he discovers the joy and heartbreak of first love. Desperate for a miracle, Nicolas fears losing Mercy to her own delusions, and together they set off for Scotland in search of the unknown.

Hinterland is an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival based in the spiritual home of the Book of Kells in Co. Meath. The podcast features artist interviews with an array of stellar guests to Kells, including all the leading Irish fiction writers, and a number of major UK writers and many wonderful participants, crossing all genres.

A young hero comes of age in the crucible of war and galactic struggle. When Allen Allenson, scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times, gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a "wild" star sector where they're encroaching, he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth, improve his family's fortunes - and gather enough lucre to make a good marriage. But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a "rube".