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
Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producers: Becky Vincent, Thomas Harding-Assinder, Maryam Maruf
Picture: Pauline Dakin
Picture credit: Penguin
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