The Secret’s Out

Boston Calling

Why are American farmers turning to hackers from Eastern Europe to fix their tractors?

Also on the programme; a visit to the secret city that the US government built for nuclear scientists; a look at the underground railroad that took American slaves to freedom…in Mexico; the story of how Fadi BouKaram, a Lebanese photographer, got his camper van back; plus, we discover the secret venue where Portuguese Fado singers perform when they want to escape the tourists.

(Image: A farmer operates a John Deere & Co. tractor. Credit: Eddie Seal/Getty Images)

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