Secret Lives

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Emily Thomas explores what our secrets tell us about who we are, and what happens when we reveal them. Now that it is easy to go online and tell strangers anything anonymously, are we more or less likely to confide in the people around us? She explores the link between identity and secret-keeping and asks how much of our identity is what we keep hidden.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCWorld Service.com slash
0:07.7	podcasts. BBC World Service. Welcome to Identity Secret Lives. I'm Emily Thomas. Let me ask you, is there anything about yourself, about who you really
0:29.2	are, that you've never told anyone.
0:37.0	It was really dumped into me that you must tell anybody. And I was very fearful of it.
0:39.0	That was if I was living a double life sometimes.
0:42.0	We all have secrets. I'm keeping some right now. Would it help
0:47.5	me to tell you what they are? Would it help you? And what would my secrets tell you about me?
0:55.0	It felt like a secret that would have to be kept forever.
1:01.0	I had never heard of anyone with this secret.
1:05.3	While making this program, I heard secrets from people all over the world. Most were kept out of shame.
1:12.4	Many were about sex.
1:15.0	Some of them were disturbing.
1:17.5	Why is it that keeping secrets and hearing them
1:20.8	can be so deeply uncomfortable? And can we ever accept who we really are if we're hiding something about
1:28.2	ourselves. As society changes and technology develops are the secrets we keep and how we tell them changing too.
1:39.0	Is there anything that you've kept secret and you've never told anyone?
1:43.0	Yeah, there is something else.
1:45.0	Do you want to know what that was? I did.
1:50.0	When I was going through all that madness, she would often send me just pieces of music to kind of keep me going and I still fall back on that.
2:04.0	I felt flawed.
2:08.0	What this means was there was an error in my mechanism there was a flaw in my being there was a
2:16.7	sin a defect something I'd need to fix something I'd need to work, get rid of. The idea of having to live a secret life,
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