Secrets 3 – Broken Dreams

Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Secrets is a show about the secrets we all carry inside of us. What happens when you’re too ashamed to face the truth?

Mohamed’s parents both worked as cleaners, trying to earn enough money to feed six children. When Mohamed was just a year old, his father left his mother in Sweden and travelled back to Morocco, leaving her alone to raise their children. She continued to work day and night to make ends meet.

Since Mohamed’s childhood, thousands more immigrants have arrived in Sweden with dreams of a different life. In episode three we meet Zakaria Hersi, who was too ashamed to tell his father, who was living with him, that he was unemployed. Instead he spent months in the public library, pretending every morning to commute to a job that didn’t exist.

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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0:00.0	You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia.
0:08.3	We all have them. Secrets. Small little precious boxes of memories of something that can't be shared.
0:16.6	Because if you do, then they would cease to exist as a secret and turn into something else.
0:23.9	Now it's 8 a.m. because you're telling your dad that you're supposed to start work around 8.30 and it takes half an hour to get there.
0:31.4	So you walk out.
0:32.6	This is a show about those secrets.
0:35.0	You get to the subway and you're trying to figure out where you're supposed to go.
0:38.1	Brought to you by Showcase.
0:39.8	I know that it didn't want to clean.
0:42.4	From PRX's Radiotopia.
0:44.8	It's not a dream job.
0:47.0	And in six episodes, we're going to hear how Mohammed El Abed lays a family puzzle.
0:52.5	But I remember hearing your voice, which wasn't unusual because you were always at our house.
0:58.0	That has been untouched for decades.
1:01.0	I asked my mom what's going on and she said Muhammad's mom fell down and they're very worried about her.
1:09.0	Out there somewhere, there are answers to how his father could have a secret family
1:15.6	with a secret daughter, Maria.
1:21.6	My father Benesa came to Stockholm from Morocco by Algeria in North Africa in 1965.
1:32.7	He didn't spoke about himself.
1:35.7	This is my oldest sister Latifan.
1:38.1	He told me that when he came to Sweden he walked from Morocco to Algeria.
1:45.0	She told this classic dad story that I totally forgot.
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