At 25, Hannah’s life begins falling apart. An anonymous intruder has made her phone her enemy. Aided by the technology we all rely on, this intruder is watching Hannah, threatening her, even pretending to be her. Feeling increasingly unsafe, Hannah goes to the police, but they can’t stop it. Worse, they don’t even recognise it for what it is: stalking. Hannah doesn’t know for sure who is behind it all, but she suspects an older man she met more than two years earlier at London Fashion Week. Initially, he claimed to have been hacked. Even today, he disputes stalking her. To make sense of what’s happening Hannah turns to a woman she’s known since she was seven years-old, and who also happens to be an investigative journalist. Together with her “ex-step mum” Carole Cadwalladr, they set out to piece together something the police couldn’t: the true identity of Hannah’s stalker. Doing so means untangling a web of deception spanning continents. On her suspected stalker’s trail, Hannah realises nothing about them is as she first thought.
At 25, Hannah’s life begins falling apart. An anonymous intruder has made her phone her enemy. Aided by the technology we all rely on, this intruder is watching Hannah, threatening her, even pretending to be her. Feeling increasingly unsafe, Hannah goes to the police, but they can’t stop it. Worse, they don’t even recognise it for what it is: stalking. Hannah doesn’t know for sure who is behind it all, but she suspects an older man she met more than two years earlier at London Fashion Week. Initially, he claimed to have been hacked. Even today, he disputes stalking her. To make sense of what’s happening Hannah turns to a woman she’s known since she was seven years-old, and who also happens to be an investigative journalist. Together with her “ex-step mum” Carole Cadwalladr, they set out to piece together something the police couldn’t: the true identity of Hannah’s stalker. Doing so means untangling a web of deception spanning continents. On her suspected stalker’s trail, Hannah realises nothing about them is as she first thought.
Hannah's digital intruder has left a trail of data in the menacing messages, that could be clues to their identity. It's time to call in the experts.
stalked@bbc.co.uk
Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Original music and vocals by Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Actor: Zak Shukor Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins
Linguistic Analysis: Robert Leonard, Marlon Hurt, Juliane Ford, Dakota Wing, Rachel S Audrey T, Zara R, Amanda
Original footage from: BurchDurch / YouTube Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live
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