This is a review of ‘The Most Hated Family in America: Louis Theroux meets the Phelps’, April 1 2007, BBC2
Louis Theroux, the seemingly innocent-abroad interviewer who steps in to meet subjects where angels fear to tread, has in the past given us documented encounters with the stranger ends of the American cultural spectrum, as well as (among others) our own home-grown Sir Jimmy Saville and the Hamiltons.
In his programme shown on April 1, Theroux shows the results of an encounter of apparently several days with Westboro Baptist Church, better known as the church of Baptist minister Fred (‘God hates fags’) Phelps and his extended family who form the majority of the congregation.
