Can I Tell You A Secret is a documentary about the stuff nightmares are made of. Over the course of a decade, a cyber-stalker named Matthew Hardy haunted the inboxes of women around the UK, harassing them via Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Dubbed ‘Britain’s worst cyber-stalker’, he escaped police notice for years, before finally being jailed in 2022.
If this story sounds familiar, that’s probably because it’s been told before – in the form of a podcast series from the Guardian, confusingly also called Can I Tell You A Secret? That was hosted by Sirin Kale, who does pop up here as a talking head, albeit literally only for five minutes, to explain how she first heard about the story.
