Insight: May 5

From the personal to the communal, this week Insight guests tell why and how they ended up revealing their deepest secrets.

Everyone has secrets. They can be small and trivial and cause no harm. But some traumatic or deep revelations can have a life-changing effect.

We explore the burden of keeping secrets and ask if it’s ever a good idea to let skeletons out of the vault.

The program also asks guests if they have ever found out anything completely unexpected.

Guests include:

Kooshyar Karimi
An Iranian Jew who had to keep his faith a secret in Iran, among other secrets. “You have to be a snake among your enemies and as pure as a pigeon among your friends”

Nathan Charles
Rugby player for the Wallabies, who kept his cystic fibrosis secret from his teammates and coach. “I want to be known as Nathan Charles, the rugby player and have achieved things due to my rugby ability rather than someone … feeling sorry for me.”

Beccy Cole
Country music star who kept her sexuality a secret for years following her divorce. “I always preferred waltzing with matilda”

Frank Warren
Creator of the enormously successful blog The PostSecret Project. “Secrets are the currency of intimacy – a secret is something you keep but secrets are sometimes keeping us.”

Marisa Merico
Daughter of a feared Mafia don, Marisa took over the empire. “I knew there was going to be a murder and I couldn’t tell anyone about it”

Bruce Stevens
A clinical forensic psychologist, who says that sometimes we need to keep secrets. “Everyone here is like a therapist – listening to other people’s secrets.”

Tuesday at 8.30pm on SBS ONE.