Secrets 5 – The Third Family
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Secrets is a show about the secrets we all carry inside of us. How do you know if you ever truly know someone?
Mohamed’s father abandoned Mohamed, his mother and his sisters and moved back to Morocco. There he started a third family. He told Mohamed’s mother nothing of this, and told the new family in Morocco that his family in Sweden had died. Mohamed’s father died of brain cancer in 1998, carrying all of these secrets with him into the grave.
Also in episode five: We meet Swedish comedian Tobias Ström, whose long-distance girlfriend told him she was dying of cancer. But the details didn’t quite add up.
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. |
| 0:24.8 | I think the hardest part was when I got this message about she was going to die, I think. |
| 0:30.1 | This is a show about those secrets. |
| 0:32.5 | It was really like intense all the time with a messenger message messenger message and stuff like that brought to you by |
| 0:38.8 | showcase she she can't lie about she's being that sick no person does that from PRX's |
| 0:45.5 | radio toopia umar i call you you know i'll text you because i was asking did you know that |
| 0:52.1 | are you had a sister called Maria? |
| 0:55.1 | And in six episodes, we're going to hear how Mohammed El Abed lays a family puzzle that has |
| 1:01.1 | been untouched for decades. |
| 1:03.2 | She got enough of it, and she got really mad at our father. |
| 1:09.5 | Out there somewhere, there are answers to how his father could have a secret family |
| 1:15.6 | with their secret daughter, Maria. |
| 1:17.6 | The thing is, in our family, the people that knows, they don't want to talk about it, which is sad. |
| 1:42.9 | In the beginning of the 80s, a year after I was born, my father, Ben Eza, he left her family in Sweden my mother, my sisters and me |
| 1:45.6 | and he moved back to Morocco |
| 1:47.3 | yeah he moved back to Morocco |
| 1:49.7 | and this |
| 1:51.9 | this is my sister Sarah |
| 1:53.2 | our mother didn't want to |
| 1:55.5 | she wants us to have an education |
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