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Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

4/16/20261 hr 3 min

Robert explains how Jimmy Saville went from bike race commentator to pop music DJ and gatekeeper to the stars, and how much of Britain clamored to give him access to young girls as a reward.

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Clips

Honor Guard Of 'Six Young Ladies'
BBC Recruited Underage Girls
Groping On National Television
‘Present From Elvis’ Becomes Rape
Implication Reaches The Very Top
‘I’d Take Half The Station With Me’
Eccentricity As Predator Camouflage
The Teen Whisperer Pitch
Savile Brags About Being 'Tricky'
Investigations Spiked For Access

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [upbeat music] Coolzone Media.

  2. Robert Evans· Host0:02

    Hey everybody, Robert here. And the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences have announced that three different Coolzone Media shows have been nominated for awards at the 30th Annual Webby Awards. Uh, you can vote on these now if you just Google the name of the podcast and the category. Uh, Behind the Bastards has been nominated in the Experimental and Innovation Podcasts category. It Could Happen Here is in the News and Politics Podcasts category. And, uh, James Stout's mini-series, Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For, has been nominated in the Podcasts Documentary category. And you can find links to vote for each of these podcasts in the episode description and in the posts on social media for episodes of It Could Happen Here and Behind the Bastards. Thank you. [upbeat music] Welcome, pod, to Behind the Bastards cast. Uh, Robert Evans with Courtney Kosak and Sophie Lichterman.

  3. Courtney Kosak· Guest1:03

    Hey.

  4. Robert Evans· Host1:03

    How everyone be?

  5. Courtney Kosak· Guest1:04

    We are good.

  6. Robert Evans· Host1:05

    Is that good, Sophie? Is that a good intro?

  7. Speaker 01:07

    [laughs] Yeah, I liked it. I just gave Anderson, my dog, like, a really big treat, and she's enjoying it, which makes me happy.

  8. Robert Evans· Host1:14

    Good. Good. I just scarfed a bunch of trail mix, uh- Love that for you ... and tidied up slightly upstairs.

  9. Speaker 01:21

    Hey, Courtney. What's that cute- We're now recording part two. Courtney, what's that- Yay ... what's that cute thing behind you?

  10. Courtney Kosak· Guest1:27

    This? This is my book cover-

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