World of Secrets

World of Secrets

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  • The Disciples: 1. Sin no more

    Shots ring out at a church guarded by gunmen in Lagos, Nigeria. Behind the blacked-out windows and high walls are secrets. In a pub in Oxford, England, a woman comes to us with a story. Hosts Charlie Northcott and Yemisi Adegoke investigate the cult of TB Joshua.

    Please note, some episodes in this season of World of Secrets contain graphic descriptions of sexual and physical violence, including sexual assault, rape and the language associated with it. This episode also contains strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline

    Archive: The Synagogue Church of All Nations, Journeyman Pictures

    Presenters: Charlie Northcott and Yemisi Adegoke

    Series Producer: Rob Byrne
    Series Editor: Philip Sellars
    Executive Producer: Georgia Catt
    Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Eye Investigations, with original investigation by Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner.

    35 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 8. The Fallout

    A lawsuit is filed revealing new allegations, but what did Abercrombie and Fitch know? An anonymous source speaks about Mike Jeffries' time at A&F, but the company won't answer all our questions.

    Meanwhile, another staffer recalls his time working for The Abercrombie Guys: "I only worked for them for a year, and I hated every second of it."

    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson

    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.

    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    30 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 7. Do You Remember Me?

    The Abercrombie Guys’ alleged main recruiter is tracked-down to a small town in Wisconsin and asked about his involvement in the operation: “Nobody went into this without their eyes wide open.”

    One high profile American lawyer examines the team’s evidence and calls for prosecutors to investigate.

    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson
    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    34 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 6. Inside the Operation

    Do you know how much money I was getting paid?"

    A former assistant who travelled with The Abercrombie Guys agrees to talk: "They were trying to act so perfect,” he says - what could they have been hiding?”

    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson
    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    28 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 5. Midnight in Marrakesh

    A model is made a lucrative offer to meet the Abercrombie Guys in Morocco: “I'm going to Marrakesh, this is awesome!” But events, he says, take an unanticipated dark turn.

    Why was the event in Marrakesh, according to another man, “one of the sketchiest times”?

    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson
    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    42 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 4. The Mysterious Mr Smith

    Who is the other Abercrombie guy, Matthew Smith? “Witty, strict and secretive” says a former colleague.

    Papers reveal the influential role he had in the life of his partner, the former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries.

    A former staffer reveals how he frequently requested large sums of cash, sealed in white envelopes – what was it for?
    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson
    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    36 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 3. The Marine

    A former US marine turned reality TV star is invited to Mike Jeffries' mansion in the Hamptons. He dreams of being an Abercrombie and Fitch model, and he hopes to impress the fashion mogul.

    But the mood at the event begins to change and he says he soon realises this is not the interview he was expecting: "I didn't feel like I had control”.
    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson

    Archive audio: Bravo TV: Below Deck (2013)

    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    34 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 2. Who is Mike Jeffries?

    He made Abercrombie and Fitch a millennial megabrand, marketing "sexy clothes on sexy people”, as one former colleague of Mike Jeffries put it.

    At home he had model-like men washing his cars and staff to chauffeur his dogs around. But what else was going on at his Hamptons mansion? “There was something about it that was strange,” according to a former staffer, “why wouldn’t anyone talk about it?” Rianna decides to investigate.

    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson

    Archive:

    CBS: Sharon Chin report (9th May 2013)
    Warner Bros: Ellen DeGeneres - (May 2013)
    BBC: Sophie Hutchison news report (24th Jun 2009)
    BBC: Hugh Schofield news report (26 July 2013)
    International Business Times: A&F Company outlook (24th May 2013)
    Bloomberg: Report on Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries to Step Down (9th Dec 2014)
    Bloomberg: Jeffrey Hayzlett joins Trish Ragen and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg's Street Smart (9th Mar 2013)
    NBC: Report on ‘half-naked models’ (30/11/2002)
    Fox News: The O’Reilly Factor Report on Abercrombie & Fitch marketing (1st Dec 2015)
    BBC: BBC 4- Love Thy Neighbour (14th Oct 2008)
    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    35 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: 1. Silenced

    Sometimes it only takes one person to speak, for others to be heard…

    An aspiring male model hopes a meeting with Abercrombie and Fitch’s former CEO could be a career break. But it is far from a dream opportunity. “It's probably the darkest experience I’ve ever dealt with,” he says.
    After reading a cryptic tweet, Rianna Croxford follows a trail which leads to the most intensive investigation of her career. MeToo has empowered women to speak out – now men say they want to be heard. This is World of Secrets - Season 1: The Abercrombie Guys, an investigation from BBC 5 Live and Panorama.
    Have you got a story to tell? Email [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the season using the hashtag #WorldofSecrets

    This podcast refers to sexual abuse and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting, as well as some occasional strong language.

    If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford

    Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte
    Senior Producer: Emma Close
    Development Producer: Hannah Livingston
    Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell
    Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
    Executive Editor: Emma Rippon
    Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani
    Production Coordinators: Debbie Rainsford and Sophie Hill
    Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins
    Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn
    Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson

    Archive: Paramount Pictures: Mean Girls (2004)

    This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama.
    If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US.
    World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

    40 min
  • The Abercrombie Guys: The Trailer

    An aspiring male model hopes a meeting with Abercrombie and Fitch’s former CEO could be a career break. But it's far from a dream opportunity - revealing fashion’s dark side.

    This is World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys, an investigation from BBC 5 Live and Panorama.

    2 min

About World of Secrets

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Global investigations from the BBC. Gripping stories from around the world – delve into a World of Secrets.

Latest season:

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