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Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

Secrets 6 – A Life in Lies is a Life with Loose Ends

Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Secrets is a show about the secrets we all carry inside of us. What happens when you face those secrets?

In the final episode of our series, Mohamed’s secret sister Maria finally agrees to meet. Mohamed brings his daughter Samira with him to the meeting at Maria’s house a few hours drive outside Stockholm. They finally meet and talk, and try to understand together why Maria became a secret for the rest of the world.

Also in episode six: We meet the former MI-5 agent Annie Machon, who was forced to hide from the British intelligence after blowing the whistle on classified agency activities.

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia.

0:08.0

We all have them, secrets, small little precious boxes of memories of something that can't be shared.

0:16.0

Because if you do, then it would cease to exist as a secret and turn into something else.

0:23.6

So think about it. What we have here is an illegal plot conducted without political permission by MI6.

0:31.6

This is a show about those secrets.

0:33.6

Funding an Al-Qaeda offshoot in Libya.

0:36.6

Brought to you by Showcase from PRX's Radiotopia.

0:41.1

To try and illegally assassinate a foreign head of state, it goes wrong and innocent people die. How much worse can it get?

0:46.6

This is the last episode of this six-part series. In the past episodes, you've heard about people's lives who's been affected

0:55.7

forever by their own or others' secrets. And in this final episode, you will hear one last story.

1:03.0

To go in through this splintered door, with everything ripped up, all my possessions and everything

1:08.7

scattered everywhere. But they ripped up the carpets,

1:11.6

they ripped up the floorboards, they ripped the bath apart, they stole our bed sheets. They went

1:15.9

through my underwear drawer and left it scattered all over the floor. So it was pretty

1:20.4

horrible to walk into what had been my home of four years to see this. And you followed

1:25.2

Mohamed Elabat, who tries to understand his father, Benesa, the father

1:31.3

who married Muhammad's mother young in an arranged marriage in Morocco, who had three families,

1:37.3

conceived 11 children and died of brain cancer in 1999, leaving behind him unanswered questions.

1:46.1

This is the final episode,

1:47.9

where we finally

1:48.8

meet Maria,

1:50.2

the secret sister.

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