Jimmy Saville is still alive...

come on, timmy mallet, no trial needed, if savile is the entertainment paed jesus then mallet is saint peter.

was praying the other night that Noel Edmonds gets outed

Dear Jesus,

Please please please please fix it for me for Noel Edmonds to be outed as a nonce.

(ftr I think it's incredibly unlikely - out of all the DJs on that 1977 Radio Times cover, Edmonds is the least nonce-like. A huge womanising creep, yes, but not a pedo.)

i wonder if it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adamson who played Len Fairclough on coronation street? It's the right era and I don't know if there were any other UK soaps at that time.

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"LEN STOLE MY SUNSHINE" = a headline that can be used if this story gets another airing

back then there was Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm

If it was Peter Adamson they would just publish his name since he was dead

They might want more than one source for the stories, though, even with a dead star like Adamson or TV-comedian-turned-soap-actor-and-close-friend-of-Freddie-Starr Mike Read.

Reid. Not Mike Read, obviously.

More Sadowitz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktIcElNDtM&feature=watch_response

And HIGNFY, back on form I thought last night. Needs to be like that more often.

back then there was Crossroads and
Emmerdale Farm

Doesn't need to be back anywhere, this new story isn't about Savile back then, it's about the BBC covering up for one of their stars, so unlikely to be anyone from an itv soap.

I find this guess-who's-a-nonce game a bit distasteful though.

Agreed.

Peter "Is it true if you take your finger out I'll sink" Adamson was a convicted nonce tbf

also it's fair game speculating about people as long as they're cunts anyway

He won his court case did he not?

Good friend of mine, in 2003, wrote a 4 page cartoon story for UNICEF on child abuse, for use in schools.

Guess what he called it.

ooh, never went to court apparently. forgot. didn't work much after that tbf.

The four page comic story, illustrated by John McCrea, is about sexual abuse within the family, which is still where abuse is most prevalent.

this can't be stressed enough tbh while we're all having a laugh and the press are playing "boo the pantomime villains" as per

Watched that ITV doc last night. There's a section where a local newspaper journalist goes to interview him at his home. A young girl arrives, Savile takes her into the bedroom for 10m, comes out, has a wash.

The hack says: "I left then, even though I hadn't even got a story."

Uh, I can sense the inkling of a story there, mate.

over 75,000 people have now come forward? incredible.

Savile gets the defender he deserves:
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12973/

I like how Spiked's layout makes it look like BO'N has changed his byline photo to one of Savile, like a forum avatar. unless that is what he's done?

we are all Jimmy Savile to an extent

my extent stops short of fondling comatose children tbf but the point stands

the guess-a-nonce thing particularly shit when it turns into the smirk-at-famous-gay-people game

yeah there's a tiny leap in a lot of wankers' brains between homo and nonce

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292862_10152100086961686_766376163_n.jpg

"fuck the Criminal Justice Act"

disgusting beast finally discredited in the eyes of a formerly adoring public and rightly taken to task for his crimes standing next to Jimmy Savile etc

DLT, to nobody's surprise:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9608676/Dave-Lee-Travis-allegedly-groped-women-in-his-BBC-studio.html

surely not the hairy cuntflake

Telegraph seems to be doing a lot of the running with these stories, they are like pigs in shit with this stuff

pace HIGNFY, reeeeeeally uncomfortable w/how this story is being used as stick with which to beat the BBC

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/19/jimmy-savile-met-criminal-investigation

Up to 200 victims, unprecedented scale, says Scotland Yard.

WHY ARE WE ONLY DOING THIS NOW HE'S DEAD?!

He got away with it his whole life.

To clarify, I'm not aainst theis investigation in any way, the victims deserve and need acknowledgement and closure and help if they want it, I just find it frustrating that he wont get punished, and seemed to live his dirty, nasty, exploitative life safe in the knowledge that he never, ever would. How did this happen?

pace HIGNFY, reeeeeeally uncomfortable w/how this story is being used as stick with which to beat the BBC

Suppose it depends on how much anyone at the BBC knew about it at the time. The Newsnight thing doesn't feel like a particularly big issue in itself. There's a lot of hearsay going around at the moment.

haven't really heard anybody blaming the BBC either other than the usual suspects

Anyone who grew up watching Benny Hill or On The Buses must be totally shocked that there was a culture of leery sexpests at the heart of entertainment industry

Does anyone know who John Simpson was referring to when stories about "Uncle Dick" were reported the other day?

The row over Jimmy Savile's four-decade career at the BBC has intensified after it emerged that the veteran journalist John Simpson claimed that top executives knew of sexual abuse by another star presenter in the 1950s and 60s.

Simpson referred to the star in his 1999 autobiography as "Uncle Dick" and said he had been a household name from the 1920s until his death in 1967. He claimed that BBC bosses up to the level of director general were aware of the allegations.

The former BBC News world affairs editor said he was told about sexual abuse by the star when he died and was asked to write an obituary.

"Week after week, children from all over the country could win competitions to visit the BBC and meet Uncle Dick," Simpson wrote in Strange Places, Questionable People.

"He would welcome them, show them around, give them lunch, then take them to the gents and interfere with them. If parents complained, the director general's office would write saying the nation wouldn't understand such an accusation against a much-loved figure."

The BBC refused to comment on the identity of the presenter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/17/jimmy-savile-abuse-bbc?INTCMP=SRCH

Uncle Dick likely = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_McCulloch

Ah okay!

In 1939 the audience for Children's Hour reached 4 million. His sign-off line "Goodnight children, everywhere", became more poignant after the evacuation of many children from their homes at the start of the Second World War.

^ not sinister at all, in retrospect

Yeah, that was my guess too, Nick(S)

There's an interesting variant in one of his 'signoff' pieces on Jowe Head's album "Pincer Movement"

Something like "these are english songs and no-one can take them away from us" or something like it..

Where I grew up, there was a [prominent member of local community] well-known for putting moves on teenaged boys in his employ from the '60s onward. Boys who told their parents were believed, but there were no consequences for the abuser other than a few punches from dads, gossip or people using a competitor's service instead. People apparently didn't want to rip the man's wife's life apart by informing her about her husband's abuses, but she *had* to know. The neighbourhood omerta on the subject was not unusual for the Midwest in the '70s.

I can't imagine the offices of Associated Newspapers or any workplace associated with Rupert Murdoch being any better/worse an atmosphere than the BBC in the '60s/'70s - this is about a melding of extreme male privilege to a culture in thrall to celebrity. Benny Hill, indeed. The framework has only changed a little in TV Land. Law enforcement and politics are also areas historically full of 'unreconstructed' men so if you're female/feminist, you might be tempted to see all these guys yelling 'there! Look over THERE, not HERE!' about the conduct of contemporaries as some kind of distraction.

I too await the inevitable David Peace trilogy.

DLT, to nobody's surprise

.. especially if you've seen any of his appearances on TOTPs from '76 and '77, currently being rerun (now minus the Savilemonster) on BBC4

Last night's DLT was especially crepe.

Pretty much all of those DJs come across creepy these days - except for Kid Jensen

last night's totp was an argument for bbc4 cancelling the entire run.

agree with tom d, kid is the only one you can trust out of that lot.

nothing much being said abt peel at the moment which is probably just as well; after all, if he gets posthumously "exposed" that's 6Music basically finished innit?