Introducing World of Secrets S3

Believe in Magic

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The Apartheid Killer – a new investigation. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. They were killed during a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, in the South African city of East London – by one person. He killed so many, he lost count. It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together this story, the new season of World of Secrets exposes the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself. To hear more, search for World of Secrets, wherever you get your podcasts. World of Secrets is the BBC podcast about the stories they don’t want told. Delve into a World of Secrets – major BBC global investigations and gripping storytelling. Holding the powerful to account and exposing scandals around the world.

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0:00.0	I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read
0:08.2	everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.
0:14.7	It's part of what it means to be human.
0:17.5	Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.
0:22.1	There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative.
0:25.0	The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan
0:29.0	with me Rory Stewart,
0:31.0	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	Hi, it's Yeme Ciadigokay here.
0:39.0	I'm one of the presenters of the World of Secrets, the BBC podcast that tells major global investigations with
0:44.9	gripping storytelling.
0:46.6	I've got some big news.
0:48.3	Our production teams have been really busy.
0:51.0	We've been making four more seasons of World of Secrets being released between now and the end of 2024.
0:57.0	Stories they don't want told, holding the powerful to account. Search for World of Secrets wherever you find your BBC podcasts
1:05.6	and then follow or subscribe so you get every season and every new episode automatically.
1:10.8	The first of these four seasons is available now, World of Secrets, the apartheid killer. In the 90s, in the 1980s,
1:23.0	in the past
1:25.0	in five minutes,
1:28.0	in five minutes time,
1:29.0	in the 1980s, on the streets of a South African coastal town called East London, people began disappearing after dark.
1:39.0	Families have spent years, more than that, decades, trying to find their loved ones, the missing.
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