When Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity in 2024 and exposed her husband's crimes to the world, many assumed what happened in Mazan was an isolated case. It wasn’t. A 66-year-old carer from Norfolk subjected a woman to almost three decades of sexual exploitation. He operated in plain sight, using digital networks to recruit men, threatened his victim into silence, and recorded everything…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton.
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Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Introspection by Shimmer
The Long Winter by Cody Martin
Rhosphere by Cody Martin
Cain by Cody Martin
Outer Rim by Cody Martin
Forbidden Wing by Cody Martin
Grim History by Lost Ghosts
Race Against Time by Moments
Sleep by Stephen Keech
Driven To The Edge by Salon Dijon
Harboring by Salon Dijon
True Crime Investigation by Rhythm Scott
The Space Between by Chelsea McGough
A Most Unusual Discovery by Wicked Cinema
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