LiSTNR launches new season of award-winning Secrets We Keep podcast

Listeners will be taken into a secretive religious group where every aspect of members’ lives are tightly controlled by their hardline pastor in the new season of LiSTNR’s podcast docuseries Secrets We Keep.

Secrets We Keep: Pray Harder is a new nine-part investigation hosted by award-winning Australian investigative journalist Richard Baker.

It reveals the sinister truth about the pastor who led a church with tentacles across the country.

Secrets We Keep: Pray Harder showcases exclusive audio obtained by Baker as part of his two-year investigation.

Baker also secured testimony from ex-members who share intimate details of their lives growing up in a highly controlled environment, where a culture of intense surveillance meant everyone reported on each other and normal human urges such as affection and attraction were suppressed and replaced with rules, judgement, fasting and prayer.

“It’s astonishing what these former members have shared with me,” says Baker. “The amount of human wreckage, particularly within families, is shocking, and I’ve come away from several interviews kind of numb and in a daze.”

LiSTNR Head of Factual Clair Weaver says “While the podcast is shocking and revelatory, I hope it drives real change. We have strong principles that accurate journalism, combined with powerful and immersive audio storytelling, can have a lasting impact on society.”

All nine episodes of Secrets We Keep: Pray Harder are now available exclusively on LiSTNR.