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The Owen Jones Podcast

BBC Scandal: What's The Truth?

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

For the last few days, the BBC has been involved in a massive scandal about allegations centring on a BBC presenter and a young adult. But is it all what it seems? This is why it matters.

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0:00.0

Hi, hi, hi. This BBC presenter scandal. A big problem with it is I can't talk about it

0:07.8

in the way I would like to talk about it. There's elements of the story that I know about which

0:12.9

I'm unable to talk about for legal reasons. The keys still has their anonymity. So I'm going to

0:18.7

try and talk about it as best I can because I'm not comfortable with the direction this is going.

0:24.7

I'm not prejudging any possible outcome. We don't know what the outcome will be but the narrative

0:31.2

is troubling and we're going to go into that. Now for those who for whatever is not familiar with

0:35.4

this story. A sudden newspaper last week reported a senior BBC presenter, a male presenter,

0:42.0

had spent £35,000 on pictures of a sexual nature with a young adult who is now 20 years old.

0:50.6

But that that contact began when that young adult was 17 years old. Now for those who don't know

0:57.4

while the age you can sense for sex in Britain is 16. It's illegal to receive pictures of a

1:06.1

sexual nature to distribute those images under the age with those involved under the age of 18.

1:15.1

So 16 to 17 years. Quite interesting for the son to take a big moral stand on this,

1:19.3

be given that they used to plaster topless pictures of girls under the age of 18.

1:26.4

Images which if they may now on your hard drive could make you liable for having committed a

1:31.1

serious sexual offence in this country and indeed open the possibility of a custodial sentence.

1:38.4

Now the claims are that the mother and stepfather of the young adult may contact with a BBC

1:45.3

back in May. But that no action was taken as they saw it in that the

1:51.4

presenter remained on air. Now they claim that money from the presenter. I'm talking about 35

1:57.1

grand here. You have to ask questions about that amount of money. £35,000 for pictures. There's

2:04.0

no claim that there was any meeting ever between the young adult and this male presenter. £35,000

2:12.2

got to have got to have to ask questions there haven't you. But the the claims are that that

2:17.6

money was used by the young adults to fund a crack addiction and that the motive of the mother and

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