World Exclusive - Scientology

Sunday morning at 1 am Mike Rinder (head of external affairs World Wide flew in specially for the broadcast) and Bob Keenan (head of the UK & Europe) for the Church of SCIENTOLOGY, they appeared live in the studio with Mike for a 2 hours session of answering non stop questions from both Mike & listeners.. This was the only time these guys will be doing a radio show anywhere in the world, it was totally exclusinve to Mike Mendoza & Talksport. They came in to counter the BBC Panorama programme from earlier in the week.

Mike M was under fire from some quarters and was accused of 'going easy' on the Church members. Mike says: "I asked the questions that everyone was asking, about brain washing, abductions, aliens etc there wasnt an awful lot more I could ask. I was concerned that nearly all the calls we received were from people who were totally ignorant about the subject. Most quoted heresay and rumours, not one person called in to say they had a bad experience with scientology! I am extremely grateful to Mike & Bob for giving me and talksport this opportunity for a World exclusive"

Mike M discussed with Mike & Bob all the issues brought up by John Sweeney on the Panaroma programme.. Mike M syas "its quite amazing that this television programme took several months to film, edit etc, yet they only managed to bring out 2 allegations against Scientology plus several allegations about their treatment of Sweeney!. I felt that Mike & Bobs explanation about the allegations to be perfectly understandable. The great thing about television is that you can film for months to put together a half hour programme and edit to make it look and sound convincing, I am sorry but in this instance the programme did not convince me in the slightest"