It was just another day at the office, but as Murray Chattell arrived, he burst into a torrent of tears. A sympathetic work colleague covered for him at work as she insisted that he went to see a Doctor.As Murray shares what led up to that final breakd

How do you pick yourself up when you lose the family you love? Stephen Gear had to do just that when he left the control of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) in order to preserve his mental well-being. Many who have left this group will empat

*EDIT*- The whitebook Lindy refers to in this podcast is #603 not #161.The crime: a teenage girl, writing to PBCC leader Bruce D Hales with some genuine questions about PBCC practice and doctrine.The punishment: excommunication and shunning by her ent

Cassies story will seem utterly unbelievable to anyone who has never been in the PBCC, but sadly familiar to the rest of us. One of 10 children raised by an authoritarian father and a mother driven to the depths of despair by mistreatment and bullying,

Another brave young man speaks out about how it feels to be gay in the brethren. Fritz talks openly about how different he felt in an very closed community. He tells a story of bullying through his teenage years and the worthlessness he felt as he realis

Damian Hastie's investigations in to the PBCC have already been published in The Times - probably the most famous newspaper in the world. Here he gives a summary of the results to date of his comprehensive review of Brethren business and family wealt

TRIGGER WARNING This podcast contains discussions about suicide. Viewer discretion is advisedJoin us as we explore with Ross Turner how it feels to be in the brethren and gay. Ross describes how he was told therapy sessions would make him straight an

A couple of weeks ago we brought a special guest to the podcast to share her traumatic story of the obstacles facing her journey out of the PBCC. We bring a little update to the podcast from Heidi! This short video features clips from Heidi's traumat

We can't get enough of Ben Woodbury! Here is the much anticipated Part 2 of the podcast where Ben exposes how the Hales dynasty deleted a whole city off the map for the sake of a personal grievance, and then used a brethren spokesman to lie to the pr

Michael Bachelard is Bruce Hale's nemesis. Having blown the cult's appalling history of political, financial and sexual crime wide open in numerous newspaper articles and the famous book, "Behind the Exclusive Brethren". He then added i