Jimmy Savile

Found the article - phew! I think I need a lie-down!

Very well put, Greatnan

I hope that all men (possibly some women) who have abused vulnerable people are shaking in their shoes. I have no sympathy for them - they cannot help their desires, but they didn't have to act on them, and their targeting of powerless victims makes them beyond pity.

Yes the Gilbert Harding interview was in the series Face to Face in which celebrities were interviewed by John Freeman. It was unusually probing for the time - Harding was reduced to tears by the subject of his mother who was, I believe, recently deceased.

Another famous interview in the series was that with Tony Hancock, who was obviously uncomfortable under the pressure of questions about his happiness or otherwise, and the money his success had, at that time brought him.

The set consisted of panels with expressionist portraits of the interviewee by Feliks Topolski.

God help them!

Mishap you will find the article within the list, then click on it to read.

I can't get into the article either - just teh lrb and a list of books. Any advice?

Marelli Was it a programme called Face to Face?

2 more arrests, a retired bishop and a vicar.

I think I remember Gilbert Harding being interviewed on television - there was a recording of it a while ago. He appeared to be very 'depressed' and wanted to die - he seemed as if there was something that he wanted to say, but didn't. Can anyone else remember seeing that programme?

Thank you, anno. Right under my nose.

What a shocking article. I remember my parents and grandparents saying Gilbert Harding was a grumpy old so and so but he was a respected TV personality. I was nine when I realised Uncle Mac only had one eye, one leg and was in a wheelchair. In my mind's eye he had the looks of a matinee idol. I wouldn't have understood anything else. How duped we all were. What bastards!

Just read the article I am speechless

Have just read the article. It's astounding.....

It's one of the articles in the table of contents on that page, merlot!

I'm getting the London Review of Books page as well

Ignore that, folks - found it now!

What article? All I get is from the link is a London Review of Books page...

I have just read the article. I found it both shocking and not surprising at the same time if that is possible.

Quite, when!

Perhaps she didn't enjoy the protection of the old boy network, Ana!

I remember there was some allegation that Isobel Barnett was 'spying' on girls in department store changing rooms around then - extremely shocking for that era!

The article chronicles how that abusive culture has developed at the Beeb. It's interesting to compare how Isobel Barnett was berated in sensational headlines for petty shop lifting during those years, yet known paedophiles enjoyed years of protection.

Fantastic article, thanks for link.

Not surprised at anything in it.

Has John Simpson ever admitted that the 'Uncle' he referred to was, in fact, Derek McCulloch?

Uncle Mac, Lionel Gamlin - Top of the Form - the shaky bedrock of our childhood.