Joy Kuo & Iphigenie Amoutzias' Story
Joy Kuo and her husband moved to Sydney from Taiwan in 2000, and the couple both began working for the University of Sydney Library the following year. They both studied for and gained their masters d...
15 Jan 201954min
Interview Episode: Grace J. Adams and Poia Alpha, Former Branch Davidians
Grace J. Adams and Poia Alpha are two sisters from New Zealand, who joined David Koresh’s Branch Davidians in the 1980s along with their other sister, the younger Rebecca. Poia left the sect in early ...
18 Des 201854min
Outreach International – Part 2
Laura left Outreach International when she was 32 years old, having been born into the sect in the late 1970s. Hear her story as she relates the experience of being a young woman in a highly patriarch...
20 Nov 20181h 22min
Outreach International – Part 1
In May 2017, a sect that started in Melbourne, Australia, 50 years ago, and has been highly secretive over the last few decades, decided to change its closed-doors policy and go public with a website....
13 Nov 20181h 5min
The Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought
In October of 2013, the British organisation Freedom Charity received a call on their hotline. The woman on the other end said that her housemate had been held captive in South London for 30 years.At ...
16 Okt 201856min
Synanon
Synanon began as an addiction support group that gathered in a grimy Californian flat in the late 1950s. It would grow to become a well-funded utopian society throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s, ...
18 Sep 20181h 2min
Branch Davidians
2018 marks the 25-year anniversary of a 51-day siege that ended in tragedy, following a shootout between the U.S. government and members of a sect called the Branch Davidians. The gunfire exchange las...
17 Apr 20181h 26min
Interview Episode: Aum Shinrikyo update with Sarah Hightower
Over recent days, several of the 13 incarcerated Aum Shinrikyo members sentenced to death have been moved to new facilities, prompting speculation that their execution is imminent.In this bonus episod...
21 Mar 201846min
