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FBS goes global
7/7/202632 min
Emilee and Yolande had grown an ideology and seeded it globally. A reach investigative reporters Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne could not have fathomed when they started reporting on the story. They set out to see just how far FBS has spread. This is episode five of a year-long investigation
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
This is The Guardian.
Shirin Kale· Host0:01
[gentle music] Hi, I'm Shirin Khalek.
Lucy Osborne· Host0:09
And I'm Lucy Osborne.
Shirin Kale· Host0:11
You're listening to The Birth Keepers, a new six-part series from The Guardian Investigates.
Lucy Osborne· Host0:17
Just before we start, this series contains references to baby loss and maternal harm. That video we told you about at the end of episode four, it marks a new chapter in our investigation. Shirin and I had been monitoring FBS for months, but after watching that video, we dropped everything else, all our other stories. That image was all we could think about. We started making calls. We hit the road.
Shirin Kale· Host0:51
Um, so we're here in Omaha, um, in the Midwest of America.
Lucy Osborne· Host0:57
Traveling around the United States.
Shirin Kale· Host0:59
It's, um, it's just all farms, isn't it? It's just agricultural everywhere.
Lucy Osborne· Host1:03
Yeah.
Shirin Kale· Host1:03
Yeah.
Lucy Osborne· Host1:03
I'm just driving down this dirt track now. We wanted to find out how many people had been influenced by FBS.
Shirin Kale· Host1:10
Like, I just, every time you get that message from somebody, like from a source saying, "Oh, there's been another stillbirth"- Yeah ... you just have this feeling of, like, fear. Like, I- I've never felt anything like it.
Lucy Osborne· Host1:22
And what was the scale of the possible harm?
Shirin Kale· Host1:25
There's just this absolute