#369 - Mark Williams-Thomas - The Story Of Exposing Jimmy Savile
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Mark Williams-Thomas is an investigative journalist, an author and former police detective.
True crime documentaries are everywhere, and you've probably seen Mark in many of them. He was the man responsible for investigating and exposing Jimmy Savile which then lead to an avalanche of other abusers being arrested. Today we get an insight into what it's like to be a real life Sherlock Holmes.
Expect to learn who are the most disturbing criminals that Mark Williams-Thomas has ever met, what the biggest difficulties were when investigating Jimmy Savile, how Jimmy Savile got away with abuse for so long, what it was like interviewing Oscar Pistorious, how accurate life in Line Of Duty actually is, what Mark thinks about Making A Murderer and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:02.7 | My guest today is Mark Williams-Thomas, |
| 0:05.4 | is an investigative journalist, an author, |
| 0:07.6 | and a former police detective. |
| 0:09.6 | True crime documentaries are everywhere, |
| 0:12.2 | and you've probably seen Mark in a lot of them. |
| 0:15.4 | But most famously, he was the man responsible |
| 0:17.9 | for investigating and exposing Jimmy Savile, |
| 0:20.4 | which then led to an avalanche |
| 0:21.9 | of other abusers being arrested all around the world. |
| 0:25.1 | Today, we get an insight into what it's like |
| 0:27.7 | to be a real life Sherlock Holmes. |
| 0:30.0 | Expect to learn who were the most disturbing criminals |
| 0:32.8 | that Mark has ever met. |
| 0:34.4 | What are the biggest difficulties |
| 0:35.8 | when investigating Jimmy Savile? |
| 0:37.6 | How Jimmy got away with it for so long? |
| 0:40.4 | What it was like interviewing Oscar Pistorius, |
| 0:42.7 | how accurate life in line of duty actually is, |
| 0:46.4 | what Mark thinks about making a murderer, and much more. |
| 0:50.5 | One of the craziest takeaways from this episode |
| 0:52.7 | is that the true crime documentaries |
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