World of Secrets

BBC

Global investigations from the BBC. Gripping stories from around the world – delve into a World of Secrets. Latest season: Dr Skin. Retinol is all over social media, beauty shelves, advertising. But its early origins were much uglier than most people know. Previously on World of Secrets: Catching My Teacher: When students from a network of boarding schools in Indonesia hear about a dark secret at the heart of a national institution, they set out to find the truth.Death in Dubai: A woman falls from a tower block and her name starts trending. But behind the online rumours lies an ev...

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World of Secrets

Episodes (102)

Monday Dr Skin: Trailer
Oct 19th Catching My Teacher: 5. Courage
Oct 12th Catching My Teacher: 4. Powerful enemies

World of Secrets

Nov 2, 2026
3¼ minutes
3 MB

The creams, serums and pills that millions rely on today to make themselves younger have a dark past. In the 1950s in America, a doctor arrived in a prison in Philadelphia. His name was Albert Kligman. What he saw before him when he looked around the prison was not prisoners but test subjects. In his words “acres of skin”. He set up a testing programme and started working with some of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in America. But his commercial operation at the jail would stretch far beyond cosmetics... Dr Skin is a Samizdat Audio production for the...

World of Secrets

Dr Skin: Trailer

BBC

00:00 -03:19