Introducing: Call Bethel

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Brave whistleblowers. A trail of data. A secret system for dealing with allegations of child abuse.

Bed of Lies' Cara McGoogan introduces a new podcast from the Telegraph, Call Bethel. Follow the Telegraph's Investigations team on their year-long hunt into the Jehovah's Witnesses.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph, Podcasts
0:07.0	Hello, Cara McGougan here.
0:09.0	If you found my series Bed of Lies interesting,
0:12.0	then you might like a new Telegraph podcast that I've been working on.
0:15.0	Cool Bethel follows our investigations team on a year-long reporting mission.
0:20.0	Brave whistleblowers, a trail of data,
0:23.0	and a secret system for dealing with allegations of child abuse.
0:27.0	What's happening in the Jehovah's Witnesses?
0:30.0	You can listen to the first episode here,
0:32.0	but for the next four follow Cool Bethel wherever you're listening to this.
0:47.0	I'm just around the corner from the Jehovah's Witness Headquarters.
0:50.0	It's called Bethel.
0:52.0	And quite honestly it's really intimidating to approach off the roundabout.
0:56.0	It's got these giant blue signs saying JW.org
1:00.0	and you just know that once you start down that road they've immediately seen you.
1:06.0	And the reason I'm here is that I want to deliver a letter.
1:11.0	It's a letter that's been a long time in the making.
1:14.0	And it started with a tip-off,
1:17.0	which said that inside the buildings on this campus that I'm next to,
1:22.0	there's a library of information.
1:25.0	It's the kind of thing that could be used to protect children.
1:29.0	It even includes admissions by pedophiles.
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