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Exposing Child Abuse in the Catholic Church

Lifting the lid on horrific child sex abuse in the Irish Catholic Church, plus deadly cyanide in America's favourite painkiller, and Mike Love of The Beach Boys.

Investigative journalist Chris Moore recalls how he helped lift the lid on horrific child sex abuse in the Irish Catholic Church. Also, the unsolved mystery of who put deadly cyanide in America's number one painkiller; the student massacre in 1976 that heralded a new era of military rule in Thailand; the founding of Mensa; and Mike Love, one of the original Beach Boys.

(Photo: An Irish churchgoer holds a cross and rosary beads 2010. AFP/Getty Images)Chris

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Mon 10 Oct 201603:06GMT
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