Radio 4: World of Secrets, The Bad Guru

[JuliaPargetter]

Has anyone listened to this?
Released Dec 2024 on BBC Sounds, about a woman from Oxfordshire/London who joined a yoga movement - and ends up in a sex cult and being trafficked for the sex industry.

It is terribly upsetting. Anyone want to discussi it? It is shocking how vulnerable some women are, and how powerless they can become. Horrible.

I did, when it was released. It's really grim, isn't it. So glad I'm not into the whole wellbeing scene.

Around the time of release the cult put a lot of effort into getting their members to post positive reviews about it in Google Maps. Says it all really.

Yes, really grim. It feels so easy to be led into something like that I worry about my friends who are alone in their decision making. That's really nasty of them to do that. The podcast was disturbing,

Yes! The whole series is excellent.

I liked the Bad Guru although I found it a little too slow-paced and kind to the guru.

I thought “Finding Mr Fox” was absolutely excellent. Totally gripping, and I can’t believe he got away with it. He’s literally got off Scot free whilst the two poor Brazilian stooges were banged up for ages.

The Apartheid Killer series was also very good.