7. Us and Them

A Very British Cult

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, News

4.8 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The people inside cults aren’t the only ones whose lives are transformed. There’s also the family members and friends, who are left behind.

When Jeff left Lighthouse, he quickly found there was a whole community with loved ones still part of the organisation. Catrin meets a father who says it feels like his daughter is dead. Meanwhile there is an unexpected twist. There’s been another investigation, in secret, and parallel to ours.

What happens when a life coach takes over your life? Catrin Nye and her team expose control, intimidation and fear at a sinister life coaching company.

Reporter: Catrin Nye Written by: Jamie Bartlett and Catrin Nye Producers: Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main & Jo Adnitt Researcher: Aisha Doherty Executive Producer: Ravin Sampat Sound Mixing: James Bradshaw Original Music by: Phil Channell Commissioner: Rhian Roberts

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're living under more tyranny today than our founding fathers did in 1775.
0:05.6	A US presidential election is looming, but underneath...
0:09.6	conspiracy culture rears its head once again and nothing is as it seems.
0:16.0	All those things that we had feared was coming true.
0:18.0	Burn the house down and start over.
0:20.0	It's America through the looking class.
0:23.0	Join me, Gabriel Gatehouse, as the coming storm continues.
0:27.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:30.0	BBC Sounds Music music, radio podcasts.
0:37.0	So call it what you like.
0:38.0	This is a community who didn't get the parenting.
0:40.0	Call it a cult of you like, call it what you like, but it's a parental culture that's for sure.
0:46.0	The people inside cults aren't the only ones whose lives are transformed.
0:51.1	There's also the family members and friends left behind.
0:54.0	When Jeffrey Lee Jones left Lighthouse in 2021,
0:58.0	he quickly found there was a whole community of parents and friends
1:02.0	with loved ones still part of the organization.
1:05.0	It's a good people and they're just in pain.
1:08.0	I mean I've lost what 131,000 pounds, that's a lot of money.
1:12.0	A lot of other people have lost that and worse people I speak with have lost
1:19.4	their children or family members and I'm speaking to one this morning.
1:27.0	She just said this is the end.
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