The Bad Guru
A yoga school in London. A guru on the run from the police. What happens to Miranda, a university tutor, when she gets sucked in?
鈥淣obody joins a cult. You just get sucked in,鈥� says Penny, the mother of a university tutor from London.
In 2017, Penny鈥檚 daughter Miranda joins Tara Yoga Centre, a registered charity with studios in London and Oxford. The classes make Miranda feel amazing and the people make her feel loved. 鈥淭here was this sense that these people cared,鈥� says Miranda.
But as Miranda becomes more deeply involved with the international yoga movement that Tara is part of, her mother Penny starts to worry. 鈥淲hen she rang us, she'd be speaking in very hushed tones,鈥� says Penny.
Miranda has fallen under the spell of guru Gregorian Bivolaru. She joins thousands of his followers from around the world on a free holiday at a coastal resort in Romania. It鈥檚 part of a search for spiritual enlightenment which will see her driven through Paris blindfolded and doing sex work in Prague.
Host: Cat McShane
Producers: Emma Weatherill and Cat McShane
Sound design: Melvin Rickarby
Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister
Executive Producer: Innes Bowen
Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
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