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TARNISHED MEDALS — TRAILER SHOW NOTES
Tarnished Medals is a true crime podcast rooted in social justice, exploring the darkest truths of child abuse embedded in sport. Who perpetrates it. Who funds it. Who hides and minimises it. And why it is allowed to continue when it so blatantly flies in the face of the rights of the child that are front and centre in just about every single other child-related sector.
Each episode profiles one convicted child sex predator in British sport — the sport or sports, the conviction or convictions, the sentencing, and the institutions that so often looked the other way. It examines the safeguarding failures that allowed the abuse to continue, and the system that consistently minimises these crimes while silencing those who survived them.
About Emma Webb
Emma Webb is the pen name of the host — one of the youngest known survivors of abuse in the sector, and the youngest known survivor of what has been called one of the worst child abuse stories in British sport. She is a conscious parent, nurse, journalist, screenwriter, survivor advocate, and the author of Historic: The True Legacy of Childhood Sport — the 2025 internationally bestselling memoir in multiple categories. Foreword by Professor Melanie Lang and Hester Viney. Available internationally on Amazon.
Emma is the founder of the PICS Database (Predators In Child Sport) and a legal and advocacy initiative pursuing institutional accountability for child sexual abuse in British sport.
Content Warning
This podcast contains harrowing accounts of child sexual abuse, including multiple child rapes and indecent assault, drawn from public court records and news reports. The words of survivors, judges, and perpetrators are reported as they appear in the public domain. Some content is deliberately detailed — because the cultural habit of softening these accounts is part of how this abuse has continued unchecked for more than five decades.
Listener discretion is strongly advised.
On Language
The terms 'victims' and 'survivors' are used interchangeably, or sometimes together. Vocabulary preferences are uniquely personal and important to every victim/survivor. Please substitute whichever term you prefer.
The term 'paedophile' is not used as a catch-all — child sexual abuse is perpetrated by many types of predators, driven by complex motivations including power, control, and a desire to dominate. All, by coincidence, also key words often linked to sport.
SUPPORT
- Support Resources: https://www.bravemovement.org/help
- NAPAC: http://napac.org.uk/ (0800 801 0331)
- Childline: 0800 1111
- Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ (116 123)
- NSPCC: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/ (0808 800 5000)
- Crimestoppers: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/give-information-online/ (0800 555 111)
- Emma's Book Available On Amazon - Book website : neverhistoric.com
- © Emma Webb 2026. All rights reserved.
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By EmmaTARNISHED MEDALS — TRAILER SHOW NOTES
Tarnished Medals is a true crime podcast rooted in social justice, exploring the darkest truths of child abuse embedded in sport. Who perpetrates it. Who funds it. Who hides and minimises it. And why it is allowed to continue when it so blatantly flies in the face of the rights of the child that are front and centre in just about every single other child-related sector.
Each episode profiles one convicted child sex predator in British sport — the sport or sports, the conviction or convictions, the sentencing, and the institutions that so often looked the other way. It examines the safeguarding failures that allowed the abuse to continue, and the system that consistently minimises these crimes while silencing those who survived them.
About Emma Webb
Emma Webb is the pen name of the host — one of the youngest known survivors of abuse in the sector, and the youngest known survivor of what has been called one of the worst child abuse stories in British sport. She is a conscious parent, nurse, journalist, screenwriter, survivor advocate, and the author of Historic: The True Legacy of Childhood Sport — the 2025 internationally bestselling memoir in multiple categories. Foreword by Professor Melanie Lang and Hester Viney. Available internationally on Amazon.
Emma is the founder of the PICS Database (Predators In Child Sport) and a legal and advocacy initiative pursuing institutional accountability for child sexual abuse in British sport.
Content Warning
This podcast contains harrowing accounts of child sexual abuse, including multiple child rapes and indecent assault, drawn from public court records and news reports. The words of survivors, judges, and perpetrators are reported as they appear in the public domain. Some content is deliberately detailed — because the cultural habit of softening these accounts is part of how this abuse has continued unchecked for more than five decades.
Listener discretion is strongly advised.
On Language
The terms 'victims' and 'survivors' are used interchangeably, or sometimes together. Vocabulary preferences are uniquely personal and important to every victim/survivor. Please substitute whichever term you prefer.
The term 'paedophile' is not used as a catch-all — child sexual abuse is perpetrated by many types of predators, driven by complex motivations including power, control, and a desire to dominate. All, by coincidence, also key words often linked to sport.
SUPPORT
- Support Resources: https://www.bravemovement.org/help
- NAPAC: http://napac.org.uk/ (0800 801 0331)
- Childline: 0800 1111
- Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ (116 123)
- NSPCC: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/ (0808 800 5000)
- Crimestoppers: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/give-information-online/ (0800 555 111)
- Emma's Book Available On Amazon - Book website : neverhistoric.com
- © Emma Webb 2026. All rights reserved.