Can I Tell You a Secret, episode 1: the beginning

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The Guardian

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4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In the first part of a new series, the 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 Subscribe to Can I Tell You a Secret? on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:08.0	Today, something a bit different.
0:11.9	We're bringing you the first episode
0:13.7	an amazing new investigative series from The Guardian.
0:17.5	It follows the incredible story of one man
0:20.8	and how he stalked multiple victims online.
0:24.3	It explores a lens that he went to to get inside people's lives,
0:27.6	the destruction he caused,
0:30.1	and asks why he did what he did.
0:33.9	You can listen to all six episodes right now
0:36.5	by searching for,
0:37.8	can I tell you a secret,
0:39.4	wherever you get your podcasts?
0:49.0	Just before we begin,
0:50.6	this is a podcast series about starting
0:53.0	and some people might find parts of it difficult to listen to.
0:57.5	There's also a little bit of swearing.
1:03.8	Oh, hi, hello.
1:05.0	The council.
1:06.0	No, so I'm a journalist for The Guardian News.
1:09.1	Who's made?
1:10.1	Who's made?
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