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Outlook: The weird world I was warned to keep secret

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Pauline Dakin

27/05/2020 GMT

The weird world I was warned to keep secret

BBC World Service - Outlook, The weird world I was warned to keep secret

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of mystery, 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'.

This interview was first broadcast in December 2017.

Picture: Pauline Dakin
Picture credit: Penguin

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