Good on Emma Orbach. Turning her back on the 'good life' takes courage and intelligence. Emma looks and sounds like she's found her comfortable place.
The Oxford graduate who grew up in a castle and now lives off-grid in Welsh woodland
Channel 5's New lives In The Wild sees Ben Fogle revisit Emma Orbach who he says is 'living the dream'
By Kathryn Williams 15:29, 23 FEB 2021Updated13:58, 25 FEB 2021
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he TV presenter first visited Emma five years ago and has returned to find her still living in a hut made of straw, mud and manure, but also finds that her isolated community has grown, complete with a huge 'Spirit House' built by hand, at the heart of the landscape they inhabit.
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In the show, the presenter presses one of the land's residents, Rich, who's helping build the community buildings, if there's any truth that the community is a cult.
Rich's answer is very diplomatic: "We have a culture of 60-odd million people in this country and that's comprised of a number of understood traditional ways of doing things.
"Emma is creating something that's driven by a spiritual and ecological vision of our place in nature and that's contrasting with the culture at large. So, I think the question is what constitutes a cult?"
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