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He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy Sailor when she needed it most. Betsy was living alone at university in the late 1970s when a man brok…
3 years, 4 months ago
My father’s hidden crimes
Analía’s father was accused of being a government torturer — he said it was a lie.
A phone call turned Analía Kalinec’s comfortable life upside down. …
3 years, 4 months ago
The child spy and her secret agent parents
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War.
For Sue-Ellen Kusher, nee Doherty, growing up in the suburbs of…
3 years, 4 months ago
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2
Jim is deep undercover in North Korea — but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals...
He'd been sent to the isolated country by a documentary fil…
3 years, 4 months ago
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1
Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network.
Jim was an unusual secret agent. He'd grown up poor in Denm…
3 years, 5 months ago
Opiyo’s law: Never let fear rule your life
In September 2020, Nicholas Opiyo awoke to a commotion in his flat. There had been a robbery and all his personal electronics had been stolen. He say…
3 years, 5 months ago
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2
Silibil N’ Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?
A record deal with Sony, celebrity parties and touring with h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry. Gavin Bain was one half of Silibil N’ Brains, a Californian rap duo on the cusp of greatness. But…
3 years, 5 months ago
I was the voice of Bambi – and kept it secret for years
Donnie Dunagan was a Disney child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine.
He was born in 1934 and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in the midst o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2
Growing up as the son of a sex worker and a Black US soldier in South Korea in the 70s, Milton Washington was seen as an outcast, and "not Korean." H…
3 years, 6 months ago