Anke Richter

Anke Richter is an expert on cults and how they form. Over the summer she's holding seminars at music festivals to warn people about how these groups start and the warning signs. She talks to Jesse. Audio

A chance meeting with a former resident of Bert Potter's Centrepoint community started journalist Anke Richter on what became a decade-long deep dive into groups that exert high levels of control on… Audio

After at first hailing New Zealand's Covid-19 response, some overseas media are now wrongly reporting - with some glee - that the government is admitting the elimination strategy has failed.

A German… Audio

Alternative festivals have unwittingly become a platform for conspiracy theorists and medical misinformation. Journalist Anke Richter has been looking into the issue. Audio

Cults and mysterious new-age movements seem to be popping up all over the place, so it seems appropriate that they're the focus of a conference this week in Manchester Audio

The Mail Online is one of the world’s most popular websites - partly because it recycles the online journalism of other outlets as clickbait. You’ll never believe what happened when New Zealand-based… Audio

Described as a support group of like-minded, usually spiritual individuals, the catch of the Circle groups is a $7,000 joining fee. The women are told, it will grow into eight times that amount as the… Audio