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Outlook: Why My Family had to Disappear

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Pauline Dakin at her graduation, with her mother Ruth and her brother Ted (credit: Pauline Dakin)

25/12/2017 GMT

Why My Family had to Disappear

BBC World Service - Outlook, Why My Family had to Disappear

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of secrets, fear and unpleasant surprises

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of secrets, fear and unpleasant surprises.

Pauline Dakin is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and a professor of journalism in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, her childhood was marked by many mysterious incidents and unexplained getaways - where her family suddenly had to flee at a moment's notice and she couldn't talk to anyone about what was going on. Pauline tells Jo Fidgen how she managed to uncover her family's extraordinary secret - including a hidden community called the 'weird world'. 

Image: Pauline Dakin at her graduation, with her mother Ruth and her brother Ted
Credit: Pauline Dakin

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