Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over abuse scandal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned over an abuse scandal. Also: the six word google search that can expose you to hacking, and the female magician who pulled off a disappearing act from the all male Magic Circle.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, |
| 0:09.6 | the 13th of November. The leader of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, |
| 0:14.2 | has resigned over a child abuse scandal. In his latest set of appointments, |
| 0:18.4 | US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a China hawk |
| 0:21.4 | and a pro-Israeli Christian, and the six-word Google search that can leave you open to hacking. |
| 0:29.9 | Also in this podcast, she finally revealed her true identity only to be expelled for deliberate deception. |
| 0:37.3 | The search for a female magician who pulled off a disappearing act from the all-male |
| 0:41.9 | magic circle. |
| 0:47.0 | The Church of England and the 85 million strong worldwide Anglican Communion are looking |
| 0:52.8 | for a new spiritual head after Justin Welby announced |
| 0:56.0 | he would resign as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. The former oil executive had been under |
| 1:02.1 | pressure over his failure to report the prolific child abuser John Smyth to the police in 2013. |
| 1:08.5 | Smyth abused dozens of boys in the UK in the 1970s and 80s, |
| 1:13.1 | and then more in Zimbabwe and South Africa. |
| 1:15.8 | He died in 2018 without being brought to justice. |
| 1:19.1 | One of his victims, Andrew, spoke to the BBC. |
| 1:21.9 | On my 21st birthday, John Smyth, told me that I was still sinning and that that required what he |
| 1:30.4 | called a special beating. That was beatings of hundreds of lashes over cane and I realized |
| 1:40.2 | that I couldn't take things any longer. I firstly wrote a couple of anonymous letters to |
| 1:47.4 | Christian leaders and to John Smyth, but when those had no effect, I decided that I would take my own |
| 1:55.2 | life. And I remember lying on my hospital bed after my suicide attempt, thinking that I was free, |
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