K.J. Yossman SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in the podcast “Hooked on Freddie,” currently available on Wondery, as well as the real tale it’s based on.
Has there ever been a better elevator pitch than “dolphin sex scandal”? On the face of it, Wondery’s new podcast “Hooked on Freddie” is about precisely that.
But the six-part series goes deeper, delving beneath the sensational headlines to investigate how a scurrilous rumor in the early 1990s nearly came to ruin a man’s life.
Hosted by journalist Becky Milligan, the podcast tells the story of a wild bottlenose dolphin who turned up off the coast of Amble, an English town by the North Sea, in the mid 1980s.
Read more on variety.com