Southern Ocean Media is a premium storytelling company from acclaimed Australian investigative journalist and podcaster, Richard Baker
Richard has created award winning and critically acclaimed investigative narrative podcasts during his 23-year career with The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, including Phoebe’s Fall, Wrong Skin, The Last Voyage of the Pong Su and The Confession, and ‘Baghdad Nights’ for LiSTNR. These podcasts have received millions of downloads and been enjoyed the world over. Now through Southern Ocean Media, Richard has a number of blockbuster narrative podcasts in development and production, as well as TV projects details of which will be released soon.
Richard takes you inside Australia’s biggest corruption scandal, finding out how Australia funded a dictator in the lead up to the Iraq War.
The Confession is a podcast where the justice system itself is on trial. At the centre of it all is Katia Pyliotis, accused of bludgeoning a man with a statue of the Virgin Mary. Four years of Katia’s life is spent behind bars, until the truth emerges because of a stroke of luck.
A major investigation by The Age newsroom in Melbourne, Australia, into the death of Phoebe Handsjuk, who was found at the bottom of a garbage chute in a luxury apartment building.
A relationship banned under traditional law. An investigation into an unsolved suspicious death and a missing person in the Australian outback.
A North Korean dictator, bags of heroin, drug lords, spooks, sailors, Australian cops and a web of lies: Come aboard The Last Voyage of The Pong Su.
Southern Ocean Media is a premium storytelling company from acclaimed Australian investigative journalist and podcaster, Richard Baker