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Airdate: Louis Theroux: Surviving Westboro

Louis Theroux revisits one of his most provocative subjects and speaks with a former church member.

This week BBC Earth screens a new documentary special Louis Theroux: Surviving Westboro, in which the UK journalist revisits one of his most provocative subjects, Westboro Baptist Church.

Theroux speaks with Megan, someone who has successfully left the church.

Thirteen years since first encountering one of America’s most notorious hate groups, award-winning film-maker Louis Theroux makes a long-anticipated return to Kansas to spend time with the Westboro Baptist Church – a hugely controversial Christian ministry that for years has picketed at military funerals and other high-profile events with deliberately provocative and homophobic placards.

Immersing himself in the strange and unpleasant world of Westboro, Louis explores what happens when a hate-group largely populated by one family loses its patriarch. And, as he discovers, Pastor Phelps’ doctrine of divine hate has cast a shadow not only on the church’s true believers, but also on those who have managed to escape Westboro’s vice-like grip.

Thursday, January 23 at 8.30pm on BBC Earth.

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