All right, everybody, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast where we tell you everything

you don't know about the very worst people in all of history.

And folks on a normal week, basically every other week of the year, I read a story about

a terrible person that I have researched and written and spent

a lot of time on to one of our guests who is generally a comedian or an academic or somebody

who we thought would be fun to horrify for roughly two to three hours. This week we're doing

a little bit of a different thing. For one thing, my producer, Sophie, is not here, as she is currently engaged in moving,

and that's a whole nightmarish hell.

And the other thing that's different, the biggest thing that's different, is that this

is going to be a reverse behind the bastards, where a guest is going to read me a story

that they have written based on research they've done from a piece of shit in history. And I'd like to welcome a guest, well, the guest host to this episode,

someone that you will have seen on It Could Happen here, if you're a regular listener of that

podcast. Patrick O'Rourke, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for coming on and for doing the hard work of

making an episode for me this week. No problem. Thanks for having me. And Jesus, yeah, it took

like just finding the time to write these things. Like I think we discussed this idea first in

like February March, but only just got it finished. Yeah, we were connected through our mutual

friend, Jake Hanrahan, and you came on the show to talk about the Irish far right on it could happen here, which was a great episode. And yeah, you pitched around that same time this, and it's obviously like, it's my whole job. So I can, I find the time to do it every week. I have to. When it's like a side thing you're doing, it takes a long time to write 10,000 words about a shitty person. I still have to turn up to work for my government paymasters. But yeah, there you go. Yeah. Well, who are we learning about this week? Well, Robert, as you know, the original plan for this episode was to cover Andrew Windsor, or as he's now known, the alleged rapist formerly known as Prince.

Yes.

But seeing as how women who annoyed the British monarchy occasionally die in suspicious traffic accidents, we would have been putting Sophie's life in danger, and that is why she has gone into hiding.

That's right.

Yes, to protect her from the British royal family.

And as we all know, there's nothing the British royal family and its armed forces love

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