Deon Wiggett, the writer and narrator of My Only Story, is an award-winning podcaster, author and copywriter with two decades' experience in South Africa, the UK, the US and elsewhere. He lives in Johannesburg.
He founded Fairly Famous, an activist progressive agency, and has won a number of big awards, including two D&AD Pencils, a One Show Pencil and a Loerie Grand Prix, for brands including Nando’s, MINI, the Mail & Guardian, the Apartheid Museum and Standard Bank.
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The podcast
In late 2017, a traumatic event turned his life upside down. While Deon dealt with the emotional fallout, memories from much longer ago also surfaced: memories that led to a dark series of events from his teenage years. Recollection led to research, and soon he realised there was far more to his story than just his own experiences. And so season one of My Only Story, a four-part true-crime podcast, debuted in South Africa in November 2019 and became the country's most successful podcast at the time, with more than 130,000 listens by late 2021. It was awarded bronze at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
The book
In 2020, Deon's book My Only Story: The Hunt for a Serial Paedophile (also available in Afrikaans as 'n Enkele verhaal: die jag op 'n reeksverkragter) was published. It was longlisted for the Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards for non-fiction. Buy the book here in South Africa (or in Afrikaans) or find it on Amazon. Read more here.
Credits: season 2
Writer & editor | Deon Wiggett
Executive producer | Alison Pope
Associate producer | Nokuthula Manyathi
Sound engineer | Sean Jefferis
Original score | Charl-Johan Lingenfelder
Artwork | Carla Kreuser
With News24’s Sesona Nqakamba, Sharlene Rood,
Sheldon Morais, Mpho Raborife & Adriaan Basson
Season 2 of this podcast is a co-production of the My Only Story Non-Profit Company and News24.
Credits: season 1
Writer & editor | Deon Wiggett
Producer | Alison Pope
Artwork | Carla Kreuser
Sound engineer | Sean Jefferis
Original score | Charl-Johan Lingenfelder
Publishing partner | News24.com
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