Weekender: Ayatollahs, Islands and Foreign Influence
by Megan Dean
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This week in our weekly roundup, a deep dive into LA train thefts, a new pod on CIA-backed cultural production, a sleeper hit on a Taiwanese crime family and more!
Greetings from Sevilla! 🍊 I’m Soobin, associate producer at Brazen. My colleague Meg, who usually writes our Saturday roundups of what the team has been watching, reading and listening to, is away on an urgent mission, so I’m filling in for her this week. In this edition of Brazen Weekender, a deep dive into LA train thefts, a new pod on CIA-backed cultural production, a sleeper hit on a Taiwanese crime family and more!
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