A living, source-led register documenting 85 BBC-connected sexual abuse cases, safeguarding incidents and institutional failures across decades. It distinguishes convictions and guilty pleas from charges, allegations, posthumous findings and unresolved research leads—while asking what the accumulated evidence reveals about access, manufactured trust, institutional culture and accountability.
The BBC did not merely employ convicted abusers. It gave them celebrity, access and a badge of public trust while a culture of fear, silence and self-protection failed their victims.
The BBC presents Children in Need as proof of its public virtue. But the fully evidenced record raises grave questions about stewardship, safeguarding, accountability and the use of charitable good to shield institutional darkness.