Part One: Jimmy Savile: Britain's Unending Nightmare
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 17K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Robert explores the life and times of Jimmy Savile, the face of the BBC for decades, an ally of Margaret Thatcher, and a pedophile rapist on an incomprehensible scale.
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| 0:00.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:03.8 | Hey, everybody. Robert here, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences have announced that three different Cool Zone media shows have been nominated for awards at the 30th annual Webby Awards. |
| 0:16.3 | You can vote on these now if you just Google the name of the podcast and the category behind the |
| 0:22.4 | bastards has been nominated in the Experimental and Innovation Podcasts category. It could happen here |
| 0:28.0 | is in the News and Politics Podcasts category. And James Stout's mini series Migrating to America, |
| 0:35.0 | A Dream Worth Dying for, has been nominated in the podcast's |
| 0:38.7 | documentary category. And you can find links to vote for each of these podcasts in the episode |
| 0:44.6 | description and in the posts on social media for episodes that could happen here and Behind |
| 0:49.0 | the Bastards. Thank you. Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm Robert Evans. |
| 1:03.9 | What? |
| 1:04.3 | What were you saying? |
| 1:05.1 | I couldn't hear you. |
| 1:06.1 | I was just so enthralled with this book I'm reading. |
| 1:08.5 | Oh, is that a copy of Girl Gone Wild by Courtney Kosack? Oh, man. I'm excited to read that myself. I wish we could get Courtney on the show. I'm here. I'm here. Oh, I probably could have told that by looking at my screen at any point in time, but I never do. Welcome to the podcast, Courtney. How are you doing today? I'm good. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be back. |
| 1:29.8 | So your book is coming out. That's exciting. |
| 1:32.3 | It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking. Yeah, it's all the things. |
| 1:36.1 | It's really good so far. I haven't finished it yet, but it's really good so far. |
| 1:39.7 | You want to up top here, plug what your book is, before we get into the subject of our episodes |
| 1:45.2 | for this and next week. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, it is an unwitting feminist coming of age about trying to make it in Hollywood. |
| 1:53.6 | It's called Girl Gone Wild. |
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