Deborah Frances White

Here exposé covers the restrictions placed on members, why she joined, and what made her eventually leave. There's also a fascinating look at the ideology structure, with explanations on the door-knocking and the infamous Watchtower magazine.

It's all fascinating, but it's not very funny. Frances-White is a dab hand at fitting jokes in where required, but the material rebuffs all attempts at a funny tangent. It’s primarily a talk with enough gags to make it palatable in stand-up context, rather than complementing inherently funny material.

There's a lot of good jokes here, and a few heartwarming stories along the way, but the format is constricting. There's a potential goldmine of material, but we only glimpse a small amount of it, in too much depth. It's interesting, but the focus is more on explanation than comedy.

That said, the show is charming and enlightening with enough laughs to keep things moving through a highly entertaining hour.