536. BBC Charity Head Quits Over Scandal - Rosie Millard

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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You can go to my sponsor https://aura.com/heretics to try 14 days for free. That’s enough time for Aura to start scrubbing your personal info off these data broker sites, without you lifting a finger. In this explosive interview, Rosie Millard, former chair of BBC Children in Need and renowned journalist, opens up about the shocking reasons behind her resignation. From disturbing revelations about LGBT Youth Scotland to internal hypocrisy, cowardice, and failures of due diligence at the BBC, Rosie speaks out for the first time about what really happened. We also tackle the Jimmy Savile charity scandal, the Oxfam debacle, gender ideology, brain tumour recovery and the cultural crisis gripping British institutions. SPONSORS: Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/HERETICS Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at https://mintmobile.com/heretics Set up your online dream biz on https://shopify.co.uk/glassbox This is a must-watch conversation for anyone concerned about safeguarding, charity accountability, free speech, and institutional failure. 👉 Follow Rosie’s Substack: https://rosiemillard.substack.com 👉 Follow Rosie on X: https://x.com/rosiemillard Join the 30k heretics on my mailing list: https://andrewgoldheretics.com Check out my new documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@andrewgoldinvestigates Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.8	It felt like the worst possible thing that a chair of a beloved children's charity could feel where you see that
1:13.8	your charity is funding a place that harboured a people.
1:18.0	This is potential existential ruin for BBC Children and Need.
1:22.4	I read something very worrying about a trans charity in Scotland called LGBTI Youth Scotland Scotland and I thought, I wonder if we fund.
1:31.9	So I rang up the chief executive immediately. Do we fund this charity? I don't know. They were too
1:38.0	frightened. They were cowardly. Oh, well, no, we can't stop this funding. This is an executive of BBC
1:44.1	Childrenese saying that about a boy who was raped.
1:47.2	You'd become the story.
1:48.4	Yeah.
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