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Can I tell you a secret?

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

Can I tell you a secret?

The Guardian

News

4.6785 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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 …

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:06.6

Just before we begin, this is a podcast series about stalking and some people might find parts of it difficult to listen to.

0:18.3

International charity ActionAid has been working with refugee communities in northern Uganda,

0:23.5

helping women heal from gender-based violence.

0:26.5

Women like Monica from South Sudan, who found a safe space to recover from her trauma

0:30.9

and learn leadership skills, Monica now helps empower other women too.

0:35.3

Now I can stand talking front of people, even talk in front of men without fear, telling them

0:41.4

that this is right, this is wrong.

0:43.8

This winter, help ActionAid provide life-saving services and support to refugee women and

0:49.0

girls as they heal, learn, work and thrive.

0:52.2

Just £20 could cover the daily fee of a counsellor supporting survivors of violence.

0:57.0

To discover more about Monica's journey or to donate, visit actionaid.org.uket, forward slash podcast.

1:09.1

In episode one, we were in Northwich, a small market town in the north of England,

1:14.9

where a man called Matthew Hardy first began stalking women and girls from his local area.

1:20.8

So work is pretty cool today. We're at an abandoned club in the middle of nowhere in Ibiza. This is the view right now.

1:31.2

But now, it's 2019. Eight years since Matthew first started his campaign of terror. Nearly 15 years

1:38.7

since Facebook landed on our shores. Things have changed.

1:47.6

Hello. on our shores. Things have changed. Hello guys, today I'm going to be doing the baby size take over and today is a bit different.

1:54.5

We actually don't have a show.

1:56.0

We're in a different era, the era of selfies, ring lights and HD makeup.

2:01.6

Because we're doing a photo shoot.

2:04.6

An era when glamorous young women can become brands online.

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