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This BBC podcast is supported by

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ads outside the UK. Hello, this is

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Darabrian, but this is not an episode

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of curious cases. Instead, I want to

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tell you a new show we're doing,

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called What Seriously, which is very much

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the other end of the seriousness spectrum,

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in which myself and my good comedy

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friend, Isi Sutti, inviting quite impressive guests,

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and they tell us strange but true

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tales, and we basically talk all over

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them. A lot of nonsense and sues,

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but it's good fun, and here's a

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taster, and here's a taster. From

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BBC Radio 4, this is, what, seriously?

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I'm Darra Breen. And I'm Isie Sutti.

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And in our new series, we're bringing

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you short stories and tall tales. What,

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seriously? It's packed with real-life, strange,

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but true stories that make you

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go, what, seriously? And provide you

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with excellent social ammo to invest

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your friends. The twist is, we don't

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know how each story unfolds. And we'll

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have to figure it one fragment at

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a fragment at a time with our

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fragmental. That's right. I am your spy expert. So

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this is actually the story of how humans

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learned to survive in space. This is taking

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an epic turn though, hasn't it? You didn't

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expect that? Did you? Not expect that. I'm

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delighted with it though. Across the series we'll

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be joined by, I'm a celebrity winner, Georgia

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Toffalo. I went to Gline Born on a

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one-hit-one to date, and I got too

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tiddled halfway to Wagner, and I can't

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remember the second and half. Ozzy comedian

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Reese Nicholson. We have ibises which

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we call bin chickens in Australia.

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They're the hauntingest bird you've ever

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seen in your life. Why they called that? They

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are these terrifying looking birds that

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have... cold dead eyes. They're just

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these long-legged storked things and they

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arc up and they're flightless. Because

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their beaks are a foot long.

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They've evolved to do something incredible

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with nectar and a plant that

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no longer exists and something to

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sup from. It's a tool for

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something like that... Billions of years

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of evolution have shaped this thing and now

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they're at a bin. Yeah, they're trying to

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get like a cigarette butt out of like

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a coke cannon or something like that. And

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they're uniquely built for this now. Nature finds

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a way. Broadcaster, Stuart Macony. We're talking

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Jewels, Fudes. Fudes is a good

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newspaper word, isn't it? It's just

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a curt to me. It's like

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quiz, you know, when police quiz

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someone over a murder. Yes, or

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romp. People always want. People are

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wrong. People are wrong. People are

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like, I also think it's funny

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when someone's kind of been tating

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him for questioning about a murder

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and the police say, what's the

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capital of Peru? Because you'll break,

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if you get into the spin

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of answering questions, if you go,

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Lima! And then, I'd like you

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to, Vienna, you know, the accord

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of the treaty of Versailles. And

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then you go, my mother, oh

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no! Miles from the traitors. Wow!

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You're welcome. She's come with all

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the stuff. I know, right? It's

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like I'm reading from a sheet

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or something, but now I have.

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Master Chef, Louisa Ellis. As long

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as we've got a Nottingham and

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food-based store. There's some clues there.

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Oh really? Okay. You don't know

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what's going on, do you? Okay,

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fine, grand, yeah. I mean, the

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food thing I've got covered, a

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food thing I can pretty much,

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you know, any blind spots in

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the food? Put it in your

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mouth? Chew it. Chew it. Broad...

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Okay, so the consumption of food

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we've mastered over the last whatever

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in every number of years. Comedian

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Richard Herring. No one's ever asked

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me to do a documentary on

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fish, which I'm annoyed about because

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my name's a fish. I'm the

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perfect. Oh my God! I was

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once asked through a Channel 5

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show about fishing, which I turned

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down because I'd never been fishing.

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I've never done the history of

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fish. No, I could do one

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about chimney sweeping. Yeah? Oh no,

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or about suzzy. Sootie. Oh, well,

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that's very sweet! Oh, how, how,

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yeah. Oh, yes, of course. Yeah,

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that. Not even with sweep, just,

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just, so he's a silent one,

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isn't it? Or sweep, the one

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that goes Hong Kong. Sootie is

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silent, sweep goes, and Sue goes,

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hello, I'm Sue. Yes, yes. But

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I will still be overshadowed by

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the two men in this. and

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I deserve a party. Slow horses

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start Christian. I would probably be

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the worst by ever. When we

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got cast in the show that

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on the MI5 website you can

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go on it and watch a

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little video to see if you'd

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be, you know, suited to being

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part of the service. And it

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plays you like a video of

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a streetscape and then it will

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ask you questions about what you've

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observed and it's like how many

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black cars did you see, how

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many people wearing hats, what time

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did the person cross the road?

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Not one. What seriously? From BBC

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Radio 4 on BBC Sounds. Yoga

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is more than just exercise. It's

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the spiritual practice that millions swear

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by. And in 2017, Miranda, a

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university shooter from London, joins a

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It felt a really safe and

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welcoming space. After the yoga classes

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I felt amazing. But soon that

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calm welcoming atmosphere leads to something

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far darker, a journey that leads

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to allegations of grooming, trafficking and

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exploitation across international borders. I don't

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have my passport, I don't have

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my phone, I don't have my

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bank cards, I have nothing. The

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passport being taken, the being... in

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a house and not feeling like

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they can leave. World of Secrets

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is where untold stories are unveiled

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and hidden realities are exposed. In

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this new series we're confronting the

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dark side of the wellness industry

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with the hope of a spiritual

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breakthrough gives way to disturbing accusations.

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You just get sucked in so

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gradually and it's done so skillfully

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that you don't realize. And it's

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like this. the secret that's there.

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I wanted to believe that...

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you know, know, that whatever

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they were they were

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doing, even if

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it seemed for some

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to me, reason

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for some spiritual

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reason that I

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couldn't yet understand. the

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the hidden secrets of

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a global yoga network. I

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feel that I have

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no other choice. no The

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only thing I can do

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thing I to speak about

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this and to put my

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reputation and everything else on

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the line. line. want truth and

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justice and further people to not be hurt

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for other people to not

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be hurt in the things

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to be different in the

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future. To bring it

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into the light almost alcomise of

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that evil stuff that

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went on. on and take back

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the power. power. World

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