Secrets
Podcast Description
Secrets explores the secrets we keep in our lives, and the overwhelming complexities of being human.
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The show focuses on the complex nature of secrets, with themes including personal family mysteries and societal shadows. Episodes explore topics like familial abandonment in Secrets 5, the impact of a double life in Secrets 1, and the nuances of shared identity in Secrets 4, revealing layers of human experience through storytelling.
Secrets explores the secrets we keep in our lives, and the overwhelming complexities of being human.
Secrets is a show about the secrets we all carry inside of us. What happens when you face those secrets?
In the final episode of our series, Mohamed’s secret sister Maria finally agrees to meet. Mohamed brings his daughter Samira with him to the meeting at Maria’s house a few hours drive outside Stockholm. They finally meet and talk, and try to understand together why Maria became a secret for the rest of the world.
Also in episode six: We meet the former MI-5 agent Annie Machon, who was forced to hide from the British intelligence after blowing the whistle on classified agency activities.
Secrets is produced and hosted by Mohamed El Abed and Martin Johnson, with additional reporting by Åsa Secher, from the Swedish production company, Soundtelling. Executive producer is Julie Shapiro. Artwork is by Sepidar Hosseini, and music is by Min stora sorg.
Secrets is a production of Showcase, from PRX’s Radiotopia. Find out more and listen to the previous series, Ways of Hearing and The Polybius Conspiracy, at radiotopia.fm/showcase.
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