<p>Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.</p><br><p>Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.</p><br><p>He explains:</p><p>•⁠&nbsp;⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him</p><p>•⁠&nbsp;⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight</p><p>•⁠&nbsp;⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight</p><p>•⁠&nbsp;⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture</p><p>•⁠&nbsp;⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun</p><p>•⁠&nbsp;⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you</p><br><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</p><br><p>TIMESTAMPS:</p><p>00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out</p><p>00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me</p><p>00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From</p><p>00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn</p><p>00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons</p><p>00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called</p><p>00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation</p><p>00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals</p><p>00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone</p><p>01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit</p><p>01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him</p><p>01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth</p><br><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</p><br><p>CONTACT PETE</p><p>› Website – <a href="http://petermccormack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://petermccormack.com</a></p><p>› Feedback – <a href="https://www.petermccormack.com/contact" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.petermccormack.com/contact</a></p><p>› Email – <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p>› Instagram – /mccormack555</p><p>› X/Twitter – <a href="https://x.com/petermccormack/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/petermccormack/</a></p><br><p>CONNECT WITH GRAHAM LINEHAN</p><p>› Twitter – <a href="https://x.com/Glinner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/Glinner</a></p><p>› Substack – <a href="https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/</a></p><br><p>SPONSORS</p><p>› LEDN - <a href="https://www.ledn.io/peter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ledn.io/peter</a></p><p>› Monetary Metals - <a href="https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack</a></p><br><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</p><br><p>LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE</p><p>› Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://apple.co/40ruY9K" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apple.co/40ruY9K</a></p><p>› Spotify: <a href="https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu</a></p><p>› Fountain: <a href="https://bit.ly/FountainPM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/FountainPM</a></p><p>› YouTube: <a href="https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM</a></p><p>› Rumble: <a href="https://bit.ly/RumblePM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/RumblePM</a></p><br><p>FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR</p><p>› <a href="https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/</a></p><p>› <a href="https://x.com/curttayloruk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/curttayloruk/</a></p><br><p>EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK</p><p>› <a href="https://x.com/ConorM04" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/ConorM04</a></p><br><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>