Today, we’re sharing the first episode of a new BBC podcast, Swingers.

Swingers tells the story of Ruth - a woman who joined a Swinging website and ended up having degrading sex with strangers more than 100 times.   Ruth thinks she is not alone, that there are women all over the UK like her and so she decided to tell her story, using her full identity, to investigative journalist Catrin Nye. 

Ruth says that she never wanted to join the website - but did it to please her husband who had been slowly persuading her for more than a decade. She ended up having sex with strangers in lay-bys and filming it for her husband. She ended up pregnant by a stranger and giving oral sex to another man while bleeding from an abortion.    In the podcast Catrin pieces together Ruth’s story and asks what it tells us about sexual consent, pressure in relationships, and the swinging community. She digs deep into the online world of Fab Swingers - the website Ruth and her husband used. Catrin discovers countless crimes across the UK linked to the website and speaks to a man who admits to having sex with women who he thinks were pushed into it.   She considers the police response to Ruth, the law and whether Swinging can be a cover for abuse.    This is a story told in full honesty. It’s the trickiest investigation of Catrin’s career, but one she also feels must be told.

This is episode one in the six-part series. To hear the rest of Ruth’s story, you can listen and subscribe to Swingers on BBC Sounds. If you’re outside the UK, you can listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

In a leafy suburban town in England, we find traces of Kin. Here, people know him as David. And the descriptions we hear of David bear few similarities to the Kin Hannah remembers.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Additional research by Katy Ling and Jack Tsang. Original music and vocals by Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Actors: Zak Shukor, Enrico Gaoni Production Co-ordinator: Shan Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins

In her search for answers, Hannah turns her attention to some of the strangest messages she received.

Hannah speaks to the parents of another young woman who has been stalked, with tragic consequences.

There are a lot of questions Hannah still has. She revisits some of her contacts and connections in the hope of getting answers.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne Original music and vocals by Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Production Co-ordinator: Shan Actor: Zak Shukor Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins

Original footage from: Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic/Facebook Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live

Kin was supposed to be a successful fashion buyer; a man who jetted between the runways of Milan and Paris to his apartments in London and Hong Kong. Someone who seemed so at home in this world, no one would ever question how he got in.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne Original music and vocals by Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Production Co-ordinator: Shan Actor: Zak Shukor Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins

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Hannah felt like she was being watched for years, but never understood how. As she begins to unpick her stalker’s techniques, she hears something she wasn’t expecting.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne Original music and vocals by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne. Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live

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.

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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 I.

Original footage from: BurchDurch / YouTube Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live

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When the digital intruder starts impersonating Hannah, she goes to the police. Meanwhile, new anonymous email accounts start contacting her with sexually explicit, abusive content.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne Original music and vocals by Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne Actor: Zak Shukor Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins

Original footage from: Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic/Facebook Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live

A once-in-a-lifetime trip to Miami with a charming friend turns into a nightmare for Hannah. Back in London, weird things start happening. Someone claims to be taking control of her online reputation.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne 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 Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live

Episodes released weekly

At 25, an anonymous digital intruder is ruining Hannah’s life. To start to make sense of it all, she goes back to London Fashion Week. And a selfie.

Episodes released weekly.

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Hosts: Carole Cadwalladr and Hannah Mossman Moore. Producers: Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne Original music and vocals by Self Esteem Original music: Phil Channell Sound design by Phil Channel, Georgia Catt and Rob Byrne. Original footage from:BBC, Channel 4, NBC, Sky News, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC Series editor: Philip Sellars Commissioner: Dylan Haskins Stalked is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5live