Nadat een privédetective heeft achterhaald waar haar 23-jarige dochter woont, staat de wanhopige Sarah meteen op de stoep. Maar Huey kijkt met een lege blik langs haar heen en fietst schijnbaar onaangedaan weg uit het leven van haar moeder. Haar therapeut heeft haar immers opgedragen elk contact met haar deftige familie te verbreken. In Dangerous Memories hoor je hoe jonge vrouwen uit de Britse upperclass aanklopten bij de charismatische Anne Craig voor psychische hulp, en hoe zij hen vervolgens de vernieling in hielp door ze herinneringen aan te praten aan traumatische gebeurtenissen die nooit hadden plaatsgevonden. Een even fascinerend als huiveringwekkend verhaal, dat ingetogen wordt verteld.
Three years ago travel writer Lydia Gard discovered freediving almost by accident. It’s an extreme and beautiful sport defined by one simple objective: to dive as deep as you can on one single breath. Record holders are now routinely diving to more than 120 metres, pushing the sport and their bodies to find out what’s humanly possible.
Through her coach, Lydia was drawn into a small but fanatical community of competition athletes all united in their drive for depth, and that’s where she stumbled on a darker side of the sport. Rumours swirled that a group of top divers were doping to get deeper, faster.
As the community began to turn on each other over the allegations, one prominent diver decided to take the law into his own hands. A secret sting operation was meant to put an end to the problem by bringing the alleged dopers out of the dark, and into the light. But the issue hasn’t gone away. And now, a lot of people who’ve been too scared to speak up, are ready to talk.
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An anti-doping officer tells Lydia that drugs are only considered a problem in freediving on social media, and in podcasts. She learns the problem is bigger, and more complex, and more corrupt, than she realised.
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Reporter – Lydia Gard
Producer – Gary Marshall.
Music supervision and sound design – Karla Patella
Sound design – Rowan Bishop
Podcast artwork – Lola Williams
Fact checking – Poppy Bullard, Katie Gunning, Amalie Sortland, Madeleine Parr & Jess Swinburne
Executive producer – Basia Cummings
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