District’s Secrets Laid Bare

‘Hidden City’ TV Show Examines Washington And Digs Up Quite A Few Memories That Many Locals Would Just as Soon Forget

• By Jason Dick
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 7, 2012, Midnight

“D.C. really loves characters. It really loves the story behind a person. The policy and the voting record is secondary to the person,” Marcus Sakey, the crime novelist and host of Travel Channel’s “Hidden City,” said about the interwoven tales of former Mayor Marion Barry and Washington, D.C.