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Global investigations from the BBC. Uncovering stories around the world and telling them, episode by episode, with gripping storytelling. Delve into a World of Secrets.

Latest season: The Killing Call. The murder of Indian music star Sidhu Moose Wala sent shock waves around the world. He was one of India’s biggest stars - a rebel who refused to be silenced. Sidhu Moose Wala was gunned down in rural Punjab, at the height of his success. Who wanted him killed? This is the hunt for answers in a murder that won’t be forgotten. A two-year-long investigation that exposes a tangled web of fame, power and vengeance and uncovers a criminal underworld that reaches far beyond India's borders.

Also, previously on World of Secrets: Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods. Women accuse Mohamed Al Fayed of rape.

And: The Abercrombie Guys. Investigating sexual exploitation claims against the former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch.

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Miranda joins a yoga school in London. The classes make her feel amazing and the people make her feel loved. But at a weekend retreat in a country house, she gets a shock. 

This series contains explicit sexual content, some strong language and allegations of sexual exploitation. This episode contains explicit sexual content.

The Bad Guru: 1. The Retreat

Miranda joins thousands of the guru Gregorian Bivolaru’s followers from around the world at a yoga festival in a Romanian seaside resort. It’s a two-week-long holiday and her food and accommodation is free. But is she being drawn into something darker? 

This episode contains explicit sexual content.

The Bad Guru: 2. The Technique

“I don't have my passport. I don't have my phone. I don't have my bank card… I have nothing.” Miranda is driven through Paris with her eyes covered to meet the guru Gregorian Bivolaru at a secret location. Why is her spiritual guide in hiding? 

This episode contains sexual content.

The Bad Guru: 3. The Transformation

The guru Gregorian Bivolaru comes to the door in a dressing gown and welcomes Miranda in. He is her spiritual master, but she feels physically repulsed by him. “Don’t be superficial,” she tells herself as she steps into his Paris apartment. 

This episode contains explicit sexual content and some strong language. 

Host: Cat McShane 
Producers: Emma Weatherill and Cat McShane 
Sound design: Melvin Rickarby 
Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey
Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister 
Executive Producer: Innes Bowen 
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke 
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams

The Bad Guru: 4. The Guru

“I was admitting it was a sex cult,” says Miranda. She meets up with her mother Penny to tell her what she's really been up to. When she tells her story to students from the yoga school where her journey started, the guru Gregorian denounces her as a liar. 

This episode contains sexual content. 

Host: Cat McShane 
Producers: Emma Weatherill and Cat McShane 
Sound design: Melvin Rickarby
Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey
Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister 
Executive Producer: Innes Bowen 
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke 
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams

The Bad Guru: 5. The Breakthrough

Miranda returns to Paris after some surprising news about the guru Gregorian Bivolaru. 

This episode contains sexual content, allegations of sexual exploitation and some strong language. 

Host: Cat McShane 
Producers: Emma Weatherill and Cat McShane 
Sound design: Melvin Rickarby
Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey
Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister 
Executive Producer: Innes Bowen 
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke 
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams

The Bad Guru: 6. The Return

World of Secrets teams are working on new investigations. Now you’ve finished listening to The Bad Guru, we are preparing six more seasons. Also, we have updates on previous investigations, including The Abercrombie Guys and Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods. 

Follow or subscribe now, so you get all future seasons and episodes.

World of Secrets is the global investigations podcast from the BBC: Uncovering stories around the world and telling them, episode by episode, with gripping storytelling.

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It was the biggest gold mine fraud of all time – a scam that devastated countless lives. But what really happened? Suzanne Wilton revisits the story that she just couldn’t let go of, to find answers about how the scam was perpetrated…and about the mysterious death of a geologist in the jungle. From the BBC World Service and CBC.

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.

World of Secrets presents: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

World of Secrets presents The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam. Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman is the man of the hour. He’s responsible for one of the biggest gold discoveries in the world, deep in the Indonesian jungle. It’s a find that sends Bre-X stock prices soaring to stratospheric heights. So his apparent death — a dramatic fall from a helicopter flying to the gold site — sends shockwaves around the world. Did he jump? Was he pushed? But the days following his death will prove even more shocking. 

Please note, this episode contains difficult subject matter, including references to suicide and death. The series has references to suicide and some graphic content. 

This podcast was first published in May 2024.

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 1. The fall

It’s gold fever. Estimates put the Bre-X discovery at four times the size of the biggest known gold deposit — and investors are trying to cash in. A small Canadian town is swept up in the gold rush. But others are asking questions, including a hedge fund manager who goes to extraordinary lengths to get inside the Indonesia gold site. 

Since this episode was recorded, John McBeth has sadly passed away. We are very grateful for his contribution to this story.

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 2. The believers

How many people did Louis van Schoor really kill? We reveal he carried out many more shootings than he was tried for. He said the police knew about them and supported him – that he had been made a scapegoat. Did he feel any remorse? What of the family of Edward Soenies, murdered by van Schoor? After 35 years, how have they tried to re-build their lives? 
 
The van Schoor case represents one of many apartheid crimes. It was part of a much wider, systematic terror - the legacy of which has left a trail of trauma still being felt across South Africa today.
 
Since this episode was recorded, it has been announced that Louis van Schoor died, on 25 July 2024. This was a four-year investigation and the interviews with Louis van Schoor were recorded in 2022 and 2023.

Please note, this episode of World of Secrets includes descriptions of death and violence, which some listeners may find distressing.

The Apartheid Killer: 6. Faces at the Window

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