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Nov 2020
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Episode 3: Cocaine - a deadly journey to...

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Cocaine starts out as a leaf on a tree but how does it get from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of Ireland? How many people die and who gets rich along the way?

In this week's episode of Crime World, Nicola Tallant talks to film-maker Toby Muse and traces a Kilo of coke from its beginnings in a makeshift laboratory to the Pacific Coast where it sets sail for the US and Europe.

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