Mohamed Al-Fayed: the monster of Harrods

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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For years, the Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed used his power to abuse and rape women who worked for him. He was never prosecuted. In her new book The Monster of Harrods: Al-Fayed and the secret, shameful history of a British institution, Alison Kervin reveals the staggering scale of his abuse and the huge number of people who enabled it.

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Guest: Alison Kervin, Author of The Monster of Harrod's: Al-Fayed and the secret, shameful history of a British Institution.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Edith Rousselot.

Further reading: The monster of Harrods: ‘Mohamed Al Fayed raped me’

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