Marc Fennell

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.

It’s the $10 million heist you’ve never heard of. In a matter of months, dozens of truckloads disappeared from American highways. But what were they carrying? Nuts....

In the basement of one of the world's most prestigious universities, there was a classroom lined with a collection of human skulls from around the globe....

In the process of charting the scandal-plagued race to breed the world’s hottest chilli, the audio documentary lifts the lid on the subculture of ‘Chilli-heads’, hardcore chilli fans spread across the globe who compete in chilli eating and breeding competitions....

In the final episode Marc meets his prickliest interviewee and a late-night hot sauce sampling changes Marc’s outlook on life forever....

One of the biggest threats to nuts is also its saviour. Back home finally, Marc digests all we have learned....

Marc is embedded with private investigators to better understand the scene of the crime, how the crimes go down and get closer to understanding who the criminals are....

No other mammal on Earth is dumb enough to eat chillies - except humans. The internet is filled with astonishing videos of grown men being reduced to tears by a square millimetre of a chilli. It’s a global gastro-masochist obsession....

Marc Fennell’s quest to find the world’s hottest chilli begins in the middle of a tropical storm in Arizona while grown men and women weep before him. Which seems normal, right? In this episode Marc finds himself drawn into an international dispute....

In this chapter Marc travels to the Mexico border to meet the man who accidentally kick started a race to breed super-hot peppers. But does the Carolina Reaper - the world’s current record holder - really deserve it’s title? Has someone cheated....

For centuries people have claimed that chillies have almost mystical effects on the human body. But can chillies be your actual salvation? That is the question that surrounds Ed Currie: the man who currently holds the record. But did does he really deserve it....

Marc meets some of the workers in the nut fields and starts to understand why crime exists in this state of stark contrasts....

An ex-LAPD cop has a tip for Marc as he asks, where do the nuts that escape the USA go? Perhaps the answer lies in the Mafia’s home country, Italy....

As high-tech and complex as the heists were, there was one factor the same in all of them: duped truckers. Marc finally tracks one of the drivers down....

Why are nuts so valuable? What made them worth organised crime's attention? And when (and how) did Nuts go from making us fat to being a superfood....

No one saw it coming. It was one of the most outlandish and complex heists that struck one of the most important agricultural districts in the world....

We meet one of the first victims of the heists & the small town police tasked with the job of tackling the crime....