Dangerous Memories: Episode 1 - That amazing healer lady

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A group of well-heeled young English women hear about an intriguing therapist figure, who describes herself as a ‘teacher of personal development’. One by one they start to visit her for sessions and, for some, it will lead to disastrous consequences.

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Written and reported by Grace Hughes-Hallett & Gary Marshall

Producer: Gary Marshall

Additional reporting and production: Imogen Harper

Additional editing: Claudia Williams

Sound design and original composition: Tom Kinsella

Theme music: Far Gone (Don’t Leave) by Pictish Trail

Podcast artwork: Lola Williams

Commissioning editor: Basia Cummings

Executive producer: Ceri Thomas

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0:00.0	Tortoise. Just a warning before we start. This episode contains references to child abuse and to sexual assault.
0:18.0	How you feeling? I feel good.
0:23.0	Should we start?
0:24.0	I'm happy to tell my story.
0:25.0	Yeah, let's go for it.
0:26.0	Okay.
0:27.0	I would love to start with Florence.
0:30.0	Florence.
0:31.0	That's a great place to start.
0:32.0	Florence was the beginning.
0:34.0	Florence that we're talking about really began in Florence.
0:37.0	Were you when you first heard about her?
0:39.0	Says living in Florence.
0:41.0	This story starts in Florence in Italy, but I first heard it a bit closer to home.
0:48.0	I was staying with my mom and dad over the Christmas holidays in the countryside about four years ago now.
0:54.8	My dad had just been for lunch nearby with friends and one of these friends told him a
1:00.5	story about her daughter. This friend of my dad's, Sarah, her name is,
1:07.0	thought I might want to hear about it because she knows that I make documentaries
1:12.0	and she wanted to talk to me about telling her story.
1:17.1	She wasn't sure her daughter was ready yet but she, Sarah, needed to tell someone, to warn someone, about this extraordinary experience
1:29.6	that she told me her daughter had only just emerged from or escaped from.
1:36.2	How she'd finally returned home after years, Sarah told me, spent in the clutches of a woman
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