Home An Emmy and Peabody Award Winning Production Company Starting at 8/9c on February 17th, In Their Own Words premieres on National Geographic Channel. The series recounts the inside stories of three true headline-making stories that sent shockwaves across the world: the DEA Agents who brought down Pablo Escobar’s Narco empire; Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and the Deepwater Horizon oil–rig disaster.