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4.6from
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12 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
The GuardianExplicit
No
Date created
2022/09/07
Latest episode
2025/12/20
Average duration
27 min.
Release period
110 days
Description
It starts the same way... A seemingly innocent message from someone who appears to be a young woman: ‘Can I tell you a secret?’ But as this six-part podcast explores, people are rarely their true selves online – and one man took it much further. What happened when this cyberstalker wreaked havoc across the internet and ruined people’s lives. And why did he do it? Can I Tell You A Secret - a Guardian podcast series about obsession, fear, and the lives we lead online
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The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
2025/12/20
The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne Listen to the full series from The Guardian Investigates podcast
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
2025/06/06
Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for “Missing in the Amazon”
The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue
2024/03/02
We wanted to bring you this episode from our new series, Black Box. In it, Michael Safi explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him? If you like what you hear, make sure to search and subscribe to Black Box, with new episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Can I tell you a secret? Ben Roberts-Smith v the media – podcast trailer
2023/05/04
We wanted to tell you about another Guardian podcast series from our colleagues in Australia. Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, is suing three of the country’s most trusted newspapers for defamation over articles he says falsely accuse him of war crimes. Whatever the outcome, the ramifications will be immense for public interest journalism, Australia’s military and a man venerated as a modern-day war hero. Search for ‘Ben Roberts-Smith v the media’, wherever you get your podcasts
Can I tell you a secret? Episode seven: an update
2022/10/10
Guardian producer Lucy Hough and reporter Matthew Weaver give an update on the outcome of Matthew Hardy’s appeal
Can I tell you a secret? Episode six: the winding clock
2022/09/23
As the years tick by, journalist Sirin Kale speaks to victims and those who know Matthew to ask whether his stalking will ever truly end
Can I tell you a secret? Episode five: a mother’s love
2022/09/23
Journalist Sirin Kale meets Matthew’s mother to uncover more about his past, and find out what might have motivated him to cyberstalk his victims for so many years
Can I tell you a secret? Episode four: a reckoning
2022/09/23
Matthew’s victims come face to face with him as an attempt is made to stop his torment once and for all
Can I tell you a secret? Episode three: the man upstairs
2022/09/23
Who is Matthew? Journalist Sirin Kale looks for clues about who this cyberstalker really is and why he creates chaos and fear in so many people’s lives
Can I tell you a secret? Episode two: the widening circle
2022/09/23
As the cyberstalker spreads his net wider, anyone could be a target. The fast-changing world of social media creates new opportunities for him to find more victims. Only now, someone is watching him …
Can I tell you a secret? Episode one: the beginning
2022/09/23
Guardian journalist Sirin Kale takes us to a small town in the north of England to uncover how one man began a decade of cyberstalking
The Guardian’s new investigative podcast: Can I Tell You A Secret? – trailer
2022/09/06
It starts the same way … A seemingly innocent message from someone who appears to be a young woman: ‘Can I tell you a secret?’ But as this six-part investigative podcast explores, people are rarely their true selves online – and one man took it much further. What happened when this cyberstalker wreaked havoc across the internet and ruined people’s lives for over a decade? And why did he do it? Can I Tell You A Secret? is a Guardian podcast series about obsession, fear and the lives we lead online. Coming soon: search wherever you get your podcasts
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PfreakingC 2024/03/23
Donna is a delusional enabler
Sirin is a wonderful interviewer and so very patient with Donna who is the most frustrating human I’ve ever listened to.
Donna should be prosecuted f...
K00? 2024/12/10
Eh
Was a decent listen until I found out they are pursuing someone with severe autism, that’s like making a podcasts about a kid who’s schizophrenic, he ...
Herman in LA 2024/06/24
Enraging and Gaslighting Extraordinaire
Matthew is someone who hurt over 60 people but more attention is given to his recovery than to the recovery of his victims. The emotional and financia...
wlwise1 2024/01/04
Shocking Story, Could Happen to Anyone
This series grabbed me from the very beginning - Matthew Hardy’s actions against so many women and their friends, employers and families were insidiou...
kabamshazam 2024/02/13
Compelling story but lacks depth
Way too much misinformation about autism from non-autistic people. This series could have been so much more insightful and effective with more collabo...
Pez113 2023/09/12
Good reporting, if a bit soft
Really well done, but I can’t help but feel that in pursuit of being “polite” or overly “understanding” of every side, the actual hard lines that CAN ...
UrsulaWasFramed88 2023/10/01
I enjoyed this one
This was unexpectedly gripping, but I was so angry on the victim's behalf! The leniency shown to the culprit was astonishing.
Robin-83 2023/04/07
Mathew’s mom is obtuse
His mom is in denial and continually minimizes her sons culpability while at the same time victim blames the woman he has harassed. I with the host wo...
hyperberry 2023/08/22
I liked it BUT
there was too much sympathy and leniency for this stalker! He stole a woman’s nude photos and impersonated her! He broke up relationships and ruined l...
Only Sane Floridian 2023/06/06
Wet gross mouth noises
Dear lord. I had to skip past Matt’s mum as her interview is revolting on multiple levels.
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