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Global investigations from the BBC. Gripping stories from around the world – delve into a World of Secrets.
Latest season: Dr Skin. Retinol is all over social media, beauty shelves, advertising. But its early origins were much uglier than most people know.
Previously on World of Secrets:
Catching My Teacher: When students from a network of boarding schools in Indonesia hear about a dark secret at the heart of a national institution, they set out to find the truth.
Death in Dubai: A woman falls from a tower block and her name starts trending. But behind the online rumours lies an even darker reality.
Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods: Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed - then owner of one of the most famous shops in the world - is accused of rape and attempted rape by women who worked for him.
And The Abercrombie Guys: Investigating sexual exploitation claims against the former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch.
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Dr Skin: Trailer
The creams, serums and pills that millions rely on today to make themselves younger have a dark past. In the 1950s in America, a doctor arrived in a prison in Philadelphia. His name was Albert Kligman. What he saw before him when he looked
Catching My Teacher: 5. Courage
Classmates and teachers at the school urge Sukma to withdraw her allegations. But she’s going to go undercover to demand answers from Abah. Meanwhile, after three long years of dating online, Zia and Yusron are finally meeting in Cairo —wil
Catching My Teacher: 4. Powerful enemies
It feels like Abah and the school has won. And they have lost. Yusron is torn between supporting Zia and the promise he made to his mum. But then they meet someone who knows exactly what they’re going through — because it happened to her. A
Catching My Teacher: 3. Is this how you repay me?
The students' former headmaster — the man they revered and called “Father” — knows all about their undercover investigation into him. Evidence Zia submitted just weeks ago to the body that oversees their school, after they promised to help
Catching My Teacher: 2. The student detectives
Yusron gets the permission he needs to start chasing the truth. Information begins flooding into the student detective WhatsApp group they set up. Memories from the alumni that now take on new significance and information from students stil
Catching My Teacher: 1. The golden boy
Deep friendships and memories are made at a boarding school among the rice paddies in Lombok, Indonesia. But the lesson they’re taught to remember most is: “We hear and we obey.” And the person they’re expected to obey is the founder and he
Catching My Teacher: Trailer
They were taught to obey. But they learnt to resist, turning detective. Students from a network of Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia hear about a dark secret at the heart of the powerful institution that shaped their lives. They set out
The Abercrombie Guys: 12. Mike Jeffries to stand trial
Updating you on Mike Jeffries' time in a prison hospital and the latest legal developments. What has been revealed in court, and when is the trial scheduled to take place? Host Rianna Croxford is joined by Business Insider’s Laura Italiano
Searching for Soldier Dad: 6. Update
What’s been happening in our investigation since the last episode? Tristan Redman talks to season host Ivana Davidovic and lawyer James Netto for the latest on Cathy, Peter and Yvonne, the Kenyans who are seeking relationships with their ar
Searching for Soldier Dad: 5. Answers
Cathy and Peter are now speaking with their dads. But are the new relationships all they hoped for? Lawyer James Netto has a “day in court like no other” when a father makes a shock appearance. And we travel to a barracks in the South of En
Searching for Soldier Dad: 4. The dads
Lawyer James has an extraordinary breakthrough for teenage orphan Yvonne. Could her father be alive? Meanwhile, it’s time for the big day in court. Can the legal team convince the judge to confirm Cathy and Peter’s fathers? Searching for So
Searching for Soldier Dad: 3. Ghosts
Cathy and Peter confront their demons. Their searches for their fathers take them to dark and desperate places. And back in London, it’s time to reveal the results of the DNA analysis, with life-changing consequences. This episode contains
Searching for Soldier Dad: 2. Eureka
How did the hunt for an American serial killer inspire DNA detectives in Kenya? Growing up, Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai admired the British soldiers stationed in Nanyuki. Now, he is on a mission to hold them accountable. Orphan Yvonne was to
Searching for Soldier Dad: 1. Love story
Why don’t I have a father? Cathy is 10 years old when she starts asking questions. The secret her mum Maggie is forced to reveal changes everything. Years later, when lawyers and a geneticist turn up in their hometown in Kenya to take DNA s
Searching for Soldier Dad: Trailer
DNA detectives track down the British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya then disappeared, leaving the children and their mothers without support. With access to every stage of this cutting-edge process, we follow as a team of lawyers
The Darkest Web: 6. My brother, the abuser
The time has come to arrest Alisa’s brother, Staton Grubert. Thirty armed agents commando crawl up a dirt track to his trailer in Texas. Staton has no idea that his time is up. Will Alisa finally get closure? And in a state in the South Wes
The Darkest Web: 5. Buried hard drives
Pete and Greg have learnt about a paedophile calling himself “Twinkle”, who runs a website dedicated to sharing images of very young children. At first, they have no idea who he is or where he could be, but slowly Twinkle gives himself away
The Darkest Web: 4. Undercover
After they rescue Lucy, Greg and Pete discover the dark web community is even bigger than they thought. There are hundreds of websites each sharing different images of different kinds of child sexual abuse. Overwhelmed by what they have fou
The Darkest Web: 3. The hidden child
US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing images of his abuse for six years on the dark web. They have to fin
The Darkest Web: 2. Man with the amazing memory
US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing images of his abuse for six years on the dark web. They have to fin
The Darkest Web: 1. Meeting a monster
US Special Agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning work together to track down people who sexually abuse children and share images of their abuse online. They thought they knew what they were dealing with but they’ve just discovered they have n
The Darkest Web: Trailer
Somewhere in America, a twelve year old girl is being abused in her own home. Her abuser is sharing photographs of her with a vast community of child abusers on the ‘dark web’ — an encrypted corner of the internet where users are untraceabl
The Child Cancer Scam: 6. The calls
After never receiving the money raised in their children’s name, mothers are finally confronting the scammers and demanding answers. Now is the time to ask why. Where is the money? Season 10 of World of Secrets, The Child Cancer Scam, is a
The Child Cancer Scam: 5. The agency
The investigation into why millions of dollars promised to families with sick children never reaches them moves to Israel. There we find misleading addresses and more questions than answers. Who is making these online campaigns which claim
The Child Cancer Scam: 4. The contract
A mother from Ukraine signs a contract, hoping that it will help her young daughter. Viktoriia has a brain tumour: her story is plastered all over social media despite her family’s request that the video they made isn’t shared. Olena says s
The Child Cancer Scam: 3. The recruiters
A woman called Isabel pushes a little girl to send videos from her hospital bed. It’s part of a recruitment drive for sick children in Colombia to take part in campaigns. What does she know about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that ap
The Child Cancer Scam: 2. The director
As videos of other sick children pleading for money are found online, we find out more about the man behind the camera. And it becomes clear that there’s a complex network of organisations registered in Israel, the United States and Canada,
The Child Cancer Scam: 1. The video
Seven-year-old Khalil from the Philippines has cancer. His family hope making a campaign video might save him, because they desperately need help to pay for his treatment. But the shoot is demanding, exhausting. Khalil even has onions put i
The Child Cancer Scam: Trailer
Your child is critically ill with cancer. It’s the worst news you can get. But to make the situation even more awful, you struggle to afford the care they need. So, when someone tells you a foreign sponsor can help raise the money, you’ll d
Death in Dubai: 6. The deal
An undercover meeting with the pimp we’ve been investigating for two years. And a chase from Dubai to the UK to get answers. Back in Uganda, Monic’s family have been waiting for this moment. This episode includes discussion of suicide and s
