World of Secrets
4.3/5
Critic Rating
NEW Season 3: The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, at least 39 people were killed in the South African city of East London – by one person. After years of investigation, we’ve tracked him down. He killed so many, he lost count. It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together this story, the new season of World of Secr...
Critic Reviews
Score: 3
Edward Wickham • Church Times • Aug 30, 2024
"If such flippancy seems inappropriate in a case that involved at least 19 murders, then I might redirect your censorious finger to the programme itself. It comes with all the schlocky clichés of the genre. And it is with such rhetorical thuds that the story is marked, its pacing constrained by an addiction to the regular dramatic fix. The result fails to disrupt our accustomed mode of listening enough to comprehend true crimes."
Score: 5
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian • Jul 27, 2024
"(Series: The Apartheid Killer) This is one of the few investigative shows that actually interviews the killer. A fascinating story, but, God, a terrible tale."
Score: 5
Edward Wickham • Church Times • Jan 26, 2024
"(Series: The disciples) The accusations that this documentary makes against the late Joshua and the Church are as predictable as they are horrific. The reporters Yemisi Adegoke and Charlie Northcott have been tenacious in their inquiries, and tell a riveting story..."
