Bringing down Russell Brand
The News Agents
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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**CW: This podcast includes discussions of rape and sexual assault**
This weekend saw the culmination of an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism that began four years ago. In 2019 Russell Brand - now accused of rape and sexual assault by women featured in the Sunday Times and Dispatches investigation - began a path of reinvention as a “ wellness guru “, eschewing main stream media platforms for a YouTube following of over six million.
So was the defensive reaction by so many of his fans already baked in? We discuss with Rosamund Urwin and Louisa Compton who broke the story.
Later, just when you thought it was safe to go back to your mortgage broker, Liz Truss is back. She’s unrepentant, she’s back on the tax cutting path and she says none of what happened was her fault...
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Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.0 | Before we start today's show, we should just say that from the very beginning, |
| 0:10.3 | there are references to allegations of sexual assault and rape and themes that you may find disturbing. |
| 0:18.4 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | It'd be very nice to meet you one day, Mr Jimmy Saville. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, if you've got a sister, you could meet me by bringing her along. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean, I haven't got any sisters, but... |
| 0:29.6 | I don't usually meet fellas, but if you've got a sister, that's okay. |
| 0:32.6 | I've got a personal assistant called... |
| 0:34.6 | And part of her job description is that anyone I demand she greet, meets, massages, she has to do it. |
| 0:42.1 | She's very attractive, Jimmy. |
| 0:43.3 | Well, that's a good start. |
| 0:46.3 | What kind of... |
| 0:47.3 | You could send her along to do some research. |
| 0:50.3 | Would you like her to wear anything in particular, to Jimmy? |
| 0:53.3 | I'd actually prefer her to wear |
| 0:55.4 | nothing. Right. So you want my assistant to meet you naked? Okay, well that's not going to be, that's |
| 1:01.1 | not going to be a problem. That was Jimmy Saville, speaking to Russell Brand in 2007. And that is the |
| 1:07.6 | archive for the ages, isn't it? One prolific dead paedophile, joking about grooming |
| 1:13.7 | with a man who this past weekend has been accused of rape and sexual assault, live on radio two, |
| 1:21.3 | live on the most listened to radio station in the country. |
| 1:25.2 | This wasn't 1977 or 1987. It was 2007, a period that we wouldn't |
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