FlexiLingo
Did a Brazilian TV host arrange murders to boost ratings?
- Interview
- Crime & justice
In the late 2000s, the host of northern Brazil’s most-watched TV shows was a hero. Wallace Souza gained infamy for his sensational program “Canal Livre,” not only because he was a former cop set on cleaning up the streets, but because his team was always the first to be on the scene to report on the horrific crimes supposedly plaguing the area. They’d arrive so early, in fact, that suspicions turned to Souza himself as the criminal mastermind orchestrating the crimes for viewership. Award-winning documentarian Daniel Bogado joins Crime Story to discuss his docu...
Opens the player: the full transcript, every word clickable, with translation and flashcards.
Is this episode right for you?
B1 · Intermediate
Fine if you can follow simple news
- 89% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 161 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 110 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
Try it: tap any word
Real sentences from the start of this episode. Every word is marked with its level.
,
of human behavior. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we uncover the true stories behind
Tap a word to see its meaning in your language.
Do you know these words?
8 harder words from this episode. Tap one to see what it means, then mark it.
Mark a few words and we'll tell you how this episode fits your level.
Is this episode right for you?
B1 · Intermediate
Fine if you can follow simple news
- 89% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 161 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 110 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
Transcript
The opening of the episode. The whole transcript is in the player.
harder words (B2+)
Conspiracy theories, cults and crimes is a podcast that dives into the darkest corners of human behavior. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we uncover the true stories behind the world's most shocking crimes, deadly ideologies and secret plots from mass suicides and political assassinations to secret government experiments and UFO cults. Follow conspiracy
theories, cults and crimes now wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. The way I came across the story of Wallace Sosa was actually at the time in 2009 when it all came out in Brazil, the scandal.
It sort of became for one day the crazy story globally. This idea of a television host who was killing people so he could get first to the scene of a crime. In the late 2000s, Canal Livre was one of the most watched TV shows in northern Brazil.
That was the opening. The rest of the episode (27 min) is in the player: every word clickable, with translation, saved words and flashcards.
Continue in the playerAutomatically generated from the audio. May contain errors. Audio belongs to its publisher and is played from their feed. Rights holders can request removal — copyright & takedown policy