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Episode 345 - David Berg & The Children of God - Part 1

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Communes, propaganda and child abuse are not uncommon in the world of cults. But what made David Berg and his “Children of God” so unique was the effectiveness of their implementation.

In this first of two episodes on one of the biggest and darkest cases we’ve ever covered, we talk about the rise of arguably the world's most “successful” cult, and what made the man who made the monster.

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0:00.0

Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to red-handed early and add free.

0:04.4

Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.

0:09.6

I'm Alice Levine and I'm Matt Ford and we're the presenters of British scandal and in our latest series

0:15.9

Hitler's angel we tell the story of scandalous beauty Diana Mosley British aristocrat

0:21.6

Mitford sister and fascist sympathizer.

0:24.4

Like so many great British stories it starts at a lavish garden party.

0:29.5

Diana meets the dashing fascist Oswald Mosley.

0:33.2

She's captivated by his politics,

0:35.4

but also by his family good looks.

0:37.8

It's not a classic Romcom story,

0:39.8

but when she falls in love with Mosley,

0:41.4

she's on a collision course with her family, her friends and a whole country.

0:45.6

There is some romance though.

0:47.0

The couple tied the knot in a ceremony organised by a great uncelebrated wedding planner,

0:52.2

Adolf Hitler.

0:53.6

So it's Losing Hill, more Nuremberg.

0:56.0

When Britain took on the Nazis,

0:57.5

Diana had to choose between love or betray him.

1:00.5

This is the story of Diana Mosley on her journey from glamorous socialite to political prisoner.

1:07.0

Listen to British scandal on the Wundery App or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:12.0

Hello, I'm Emily, one of the hosts of Terribly Famous, the show that takes you inside the lives of our biggest celebrities.

1:20.0

Some of them hit the big time overnight, some have to plug away for years, but in our latest series we're talking about a man who was

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