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Dec 2022
1h 34m

Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus ...

Chris Williamson
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Helen Lewis is a journalist at The Atlantic and an author Humanity has become much less religious and in the ruins of this fresh, listless world, bereft of traditional insight, a cadre of new gurus have risen to take the high priests' place of dispensing insights about how to live. Helen's new BBC Sounds documentary series delves into this world of secular ... Show More
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