Secrets

These are clips from an episode of The Digital Human.

Secret-holders share why and how they have used the internet to disclose their most intimate or well-kept secrets - how does a compulsion to confess in a public setting affect those who the secret is about? And can this audition of secrets online naturally lead to revealing them offline?

We hear from Frank Warren, the secret-keeper of the online website and app PostSecret. Yorick Phoenix, who used PostSecret to air a secret kept for 30 years, tells us why he was happy to use such a public setting to explain that he kept his daughter a secret from his family. Aleks addresses the ownership of secrets and how the internet can impact on this. We hear from Yorick's daughter, Rachael, about how she feels that her father's secret, which is also her own, is online for all to hear.

Producer: Kate Bissell