Campside Presents: Big Sugar
True Crime
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, exploitation and ultimately the truth. We travel from the Oval Office to the nightclubs of Havana to the sugarcane fields of Florida. Big Sugar is a deep dive into the inner workings of the industry.
This is a story of our time, an untold story that focuses on human rights, lobbying, nutrition and the environment.
Join us every Tuesday as episodes are released.
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Location:
United States
Description:
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, exploitation and ultimately the truth. We travel from the Oval Office to the nightclubs of Havana to the sugarcane fields of Florida. Big Sugar is a deep dive into the inner workings of the industry. This is a story of our time, an untold story that focuses on human rights, lobbying, nutrition and the environment. Join us every Tuesday as episodes are released. To connect with our creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language:
English
Episodes
Big Sugar I Episode 4 - Without Sugar, There is No Country
7/1/2025
There is a saying in Cuba: “Without sugar there is no country.” We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine a light on where this story really begins.
Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio.
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Duration:00:39:24
Big Sugar I Episode 3 - The Case that Consumed Them
6/24/2025
The lawyers gather evidence as they prepare to take on the biggest players in the sugar industry. Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, but who are they really up against?
Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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Duration:00:39:53
Big Sugar I Episode 2 - The Grass is Always Greener
6/17/2025
Crusading lawyer Edward Tuddenham hears about the sugarcane workers - the conditions, the injuries and unpaid wages. With Harley-riding, former intelligence officer Dave Gorman as co-counsel, he takes on the powerful sugar industry on behalf of the workers, suing five enormous farms.
Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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Duration:00:44:07
Big Sugar I Episode 1 - Welcome to Blood, Sweat and Tears
6/10/2025
Meet Victor and Selvin, who initially feel lucky to travel from Jamaica to Florida to cut sugarcane. The experiences of cane cutters like them lead two ambitious journalists to try and uncover the devastating truth about the labor supporting the American sugar industry.
Hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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Duration:00:49:49
Campside Presents: Big Sugar
6/3/2025
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, the exploitation — and ultimately the truth.
Join us every Tuesday as episodes are released. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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Duration:00:02:02
Listen to Infamous: From Conned to Cupid
5/2/2025
Infamous: From Conned to Cupid tells the story of Kami Verne, a woman who thought she’d married the man of her dreams—an entrepreneur with a big heart and even bigger personality. But when investors start asking questions about his latest business ventures, Kami comes to realize that their life together might be built on lies.
A story about love, betrayal, and starting over.
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Duration:00:03:42
Episode 13 - Bonus: Catching Up With Jasmine Hartin
3/4/2025
It's been many months since our show wrapped, but Jasmine Hartin's story obviously continues — now in Turks and Caicos. Host Josh Dean checks in to see if her tumultuous life has settled down at all, and especially to find out if there's been any progress in the battle for custody of her kids.
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Duration:00:44:15
Introducing: We Came to the Forest
2/3/2025
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility being built in Atlanta. She decides to join a group of activists attempting to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Forest, she quickly finds a community, a cause –- and a love unlike any other. But the events of one morning shatters everything. Vienna and everyone connected to the forest begin asking themselves a question: what are you willing to die for?
From Wondery, Campside Media and Tenderfoot TV. To find out more about this show plus the other shows we're working on, join our community at Campsidemedia.com/join
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Duration:00:07:28
Crime Story: Josh Dean goes behind the scenes of White Devil
7/15/2024
In this special bonus conversation, Josh Dean sits down with Crime Story host Kathleen Goldhar to go behind the scenes of White Devil, where nothing is ever as it seems.
You can listen to more incredible tales of true crime every week on Crime Story. Find more Crime Story episodes in your podcast app, or here: https://link.chtbl.com/o6d-pzBg.
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Duration:00:46:28
Episode 12 - Breakout
7/8/2024
After more than two years of near constant chaos, Jasmine Hartin finally gets her day in court. But what is winning or losing, after all of this?
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Duration:01:00:00
Episode 11 - Lionfish
7/1/2024
In Belize, as one local expert told us, "is like an onion". Every layer you peel back reveals another layer of power operating behind the scenes.
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Duration:00:45:24
Episode 10 - Better Call Dickie
6/24/2024
What is the legal case against Jasmine Hartin? And what really happened that night on the pier?
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Duration:00:57:48
Episode 9 - Welcome to the jungle
6/17/2024
As Jasmine's problems mount, she fears for her life, and retreats to a compound in the jungle.
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Duration:00:45:03
Episode 8 - Waterloo
6/10/2024
Overnight, Andrew leaves Belize with the twins -- announcing the sudden move to everyone (including Jasmine) by press release. Where's he going? Turks and Caicos, another place with a long and complicated Ashcroft family history.
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Duration:00:47:20
Episode 7 - Unbelizable
6/3/2024
Just when it seems like we've seen everything, Jasmine is accused of ordering a hit on the Commissioner of Police!
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Duration:00:40:11
Episode 6 - The Long Shadow
5/27/2024
After an unbelievable revelation that Michael Ashcroft -- the grandfather of Jasmine Hartin’s twins -- seems to have managed a rock band that vanished in the 1960s, we head to London to uncover the truth.
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Duration:00:49:21
Episode 5 - War of the Roses
5/20/2024
Someone seems to be waging a PR campaign against Jasmine in the media. But she quickly learns that the media is a tool she can also use, to her advantage. Episodes are out every Monday!
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Duration:00:51:46
Episode 4 - The Unhappy Couple
5/13/2024
How did a woman, who grew up on a farm in rural Canada, end up in a tropical paradise partnered with the son of a billionaire. Jasmine and Andrew seemed to have the perfect relationship — but behind closed doors things were not as they seemed.
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Duration:00:41:17
Episode 3 - Belize is Not a Real Place
5/13/2024
Jasmine and Andrew's children are the 4th generation of the powerful Ashcroft family who have a link to Belize, a fascinating place where things don't always play out as you would expect them to.
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Duration:00:49:38
Episode 2 - The Shitstorm
5/6/2024
With Jasmine Hartin behind bars, it is starting to look like the powerful billionaire machine might not have as much influence as first thought.
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Duration:00:49:16