In Dark Corners
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<p>Campaigning journalist, broadcaster and historian Alex Renton shines a light into the dark corners of British society.</p>
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Recent Episodes
February 5, 2025
5. This Evil Thing
<p>Journalist Alex Renton is sent a secret membership list of a pro-paedophile group active in the 1970s and 80s.</p><p>It’s a lot to take in. Alex is not only a journalist, he’s a survivor of child sexual abuse. </p><p>The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) campaigned to 'normalise' sex between children and adults. Their spokesmen claimed that adult members always sought consent.</p><p>But from the moment Alex was passed the list he knew that was a lie. He recognised some of those names and he knew they had convictions for child sexual abuse. </p><p>The List set Alex off on a dizzying journey into the dark history of PIE. As he uncovered more, he started to wonder: where were all those hundreds of members now? Could children still be at risk? </p><p>316 names. Most with UK addresses. All but a handful are men. </p><p>In this final episode Alex makes contact with some of the former members of PIE; people he believes may still come into contact with children.</p><p>Archive credits: BBC, Nationwide 1981; BBC, Newsnight 1983; BBC Parliament, 2025.</p><p>Presenter: Alex Renton Producer: Caitlin Smith Executive Producers: Gillian Wheelan and Gail Champion Story Consultants: Jack Kibble-White and Kirsty Williams Sound design: Jon Nicholls Theme Tune: Jeremy Warmsley</p><p>Details of organisations offering information and support for victims of child sexual abuse are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline</p>
January 29, 2025
4. Member 51
<p>A social care consultant who advises the government on children in care, is raided by police in 1992. A detective finds evidence linking him to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).</p><p>A local social worker is called in. He and the detective search through seven boxes of documents, brought from the home of the suspect. They discover that not only was he a member of PIE, but a central figure and high up in establishment circles.</p><p>Alex Renton sits down with the social worker, and hears about his decades long quest: to expose members of the Paedophile Information Exchange within social care and stop them from harming children.</p><p>In their public literature, the leaders of PIE members had always claimed their relationships with children were consensual. Alex Renton tracks down one of the boys, now a man in his fifties, who was abused by the childcare expert and his partner. </p><p>Archive: Inside Story- The Secret Life of a Paeophile, 1994, BBC. News report on the White Inquiry into Islington Children's Homes child abuse scandal, 1995, BBC; The Scandal of Crookham Court, That's Life!, 1991, BBC.</p><p>Presenter: Alex Renton Producer: Caitlin Smith Executive Producers: Gail Champion and Gillian Wheelan Story Consultants: Jack Kibble-White and Kirsty Williams Sound design: Jon Nicholls Theme Tune: Jeremy Warmsley</p><p> Details of organisations offering information and support for victims of child sexual abuse are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline</p>
January 22, 2025
3. The Dirty Squad
<p>Alex Renton tries to find out more about the notes scribbled in the margins of the PIE membership list. It looks like they were written by police, who were going door to door visiting the members listed in the document. But this active investigation appears to stop suddenly in 1985. Why? </p><p>Alex starts piecing together the police investigation into the Paedophile Information Exchange. </p><p>He discovers the PIE List was seized by the Metropolitan Police in the late seventies and passed to a unit called the Obscene Publications Branch or as it was known internally 'the Dirty Squad'. </p><p>Presenter: Alex Renton Producer: Caitlin Smith Executive Producers: Gail Champion and Gillian Wheelan Story Consultants: Jack Kibble-White and Kirsty Williams Sound design: Jon Nicholls Theme Tune: Jeremy Warmsley</p><p>Actor readings: David Hounslow and Samuel James.</p><p>Archive: Newsnight, 1983 BBC; Mary Whitehouse film archive, Huntly Film Archive 1964; Mastermind 1979 , BBC.</p><p>Details of organisations offering information and support for victims of child sexual abuse are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline</p>
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