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Can I tell you a secret?

The Guardian

13 episodes

It starts the same way... A seemingly innocent message from someone who appears to be a young woman: ‘Can I tell you a secret?’ But as this six-part podcast explores, people are rarely their true selves online – and one man took it much further. What happened when this cyberstalker wreaked havoc across the internet and ruined people’s lives. And why did he do it? Can I Tell You A Secret - a Guardian podcast series about obsession, fear, and the lives we lead online

Episodes

  1. Off Duty: The Crime

    · 26 min

    On the evening of 29 December 2011, the police officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot Lewis several times, then took off with his gun and…

  2. The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

    · 37 min

    The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life.…

  3. Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

    · 27 min

    Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom…

  4. The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue

    · 15 min

    We wanted to bring you this episode from our new series, Black Box. In it, Michael Safi explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real…

  5. Can I tell you a secret? Ben Roberts-Smith v the media – podcast trailer

    · 0:58

    We wanted to tell you about another Guardian podcast series from our colleagues in Australia. Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, is suing three of the country’s most trusted newspapers for…

  6. Can I tell you a secret? Episode seven: an update

    · 11 min

    Guardian producer Lucy Hough and reporter Matthew Weaver give an update on the outcome of Matthew Hardy’s appeal

  7. Can I tell you a secret? Episode six: the winding clock

    · 33 min

    As the years tick by, journalist Sirin Kale speaks to victims and those who know Matthew to ask whether his stalking will ever truly end

  8. Can I tell you a secret? Episode five: a mother’s love

    · 42 min

    Journalist Sirin Kale meets Matthew’s mother to uncover more about his past, and find out what might have motivated him to cyberstalk his victims for so many years

  9. Can I tell you a secret? Episode four: a reckoning

    · 40 min

    Matthew’s victims come face to face with him as an attempt is made to stop his torment once and for all

  10. Can I tell you a secret? Episode three: the man upstairs

    · 35 min

    Who is Matthew? Journalist Sirin Kale looks for clues about who this cyberstalker really is and why he creates chaos and fear in so many people’s lives

  11. Can I tell you a secret? Episode two: the widening circle

    · 39 min

    As the cyberstalker spreads his net wider, anyone could be a target. The fast-changing world of social media creates new opportunities for him to find more victims. Only now, someone is watching him …

  12. Can I tell you a secret? Episode one: the beginning

    · 34 min · Explicit

    Guardian journalist Sirin Kale takes us to a small town in the north of England to uncover how one man began a decade of cyberstalking

  13. The Guardian’s new investigative podcast: Can I Tell You A Secret? – trailer

    · 1:23

    It starts the same way … A seemingly innocent message from someone who appears to be a young woman: ‘Can I tell you a secret?’ But as this six-part investigative podcast explores, people are rarely their true selves…

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