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Weird, wonderful, shocking, brave. Nicky Campbell explores what it means to be different.

What does it mean to be different? Is it how we think? Or how we act? In this BBC podcast, Nicky Campbell explores just that with guests who are extraordinarily different.

Different with Nicky Campbell: Born into a Cult

Born into a Cult

BBC Radio 5 Live - Different with Nicky Campbell, Born into a Cult

Nicky meets Katy, who was born into a cult which kept her imprisoned for thirty years.

Katy Morgan-Davies tells Nicky about life in her father’s strict communist cult in London, how Lord of the Rings saved her, and escape.

Katy Morgan-Davies was born in a nondescript house in Lambeth in London, but thirty years later the world would discover she, and the other occupants in the house, were anything but ordinary. Katy was born into a strict communist-Maoist cult, didn’t know who her parents were, wasn’t allowed to get any education, leave the house or even look out the window. She escaped in 2013 when one of the other women held there memorised the number of a charity, who arranged their release. 

Katy tells Nicky about how she learnt her worldview from a copy of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, that she never wanted her father to go to prison and the importance of forgiveness.

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