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Jimmy Savile

December 2024

  • Gregg Wallace in 2020

    The Guardian view on Gregg Wallace and the BBC: exposing poor conduct is in the public interest

    Editorial: By drawing attention to the troubling behaviour of a male celebrity, Kirsty Wark recalls the spirit of #MeToo

December 2023

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer was not told about dropping of Jimmy Savile case, say sources

    Labour leader was unaware a prosecutor had closed case in 2009 despite being head of CPS, it has emerged

November 2023

  • A portrait of Louis Theroux with a bloodied lip and wearing boxing gloves, with his hands held up to his face

    Louis Theroux: ‘It’s not rude to ask a question. It’s rude to expect an answer’

    His signature mix of charm and cheek has made him one of the best interviewers in the game. Will he take it on the chin when the tables are turned?

October 2023

  • Sid Owen in Banged Up.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Sid Owen, Peter Hitchens and other celebs get Banged Up

  • Sonia Sodha

    The BBC Jimmy Savile drama missed a chance to tell the real story of child sexual abuse

    Sonia Sodha
  • Steve Coogan, right, playing Jimmy Savile in the series.

    Jimmy Savile docudrama tells a story that needs to be told

  • Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning.

    TV review
    The Reckoning review – Steve Coogan is chillingly brilliant as Jimmy Savile

  • ‘Why was I so obsessed with him?’: my seven years in search of Jimmy Savile’s secrets

  • Steve Coogan on playing Jimmy Savile: ‘I was so glad to think I would never have to look like that again’

  • The Reckoning first look – this Jimmy Savile drama contains some of TV’s most shocking scenes

  • ‘The most disgusting human being I’ve ever met’: a Jimmy Savile survivor speaks out

September 2023

  • Adrian Chiles

    If Russell Brand’s interview with Jimmy Savile happened today, we’d be thankful for the Twitterstorm

    Adrian Chiles
    In 2007, before Twitter rage and pile-ons, Brand offered up his female assistant to go to Savile’s place naked. With little social media to provide a forum for outrage, no action was taken

July 2023

  • Adrian Street dressed in glam clothes among miners

    Flamboyant Welsh wrestler Adrian Street dies at 82

    Performer dressed like a glam rocker, even wearing lipstick, and once, he said, ‘beat the crap’ out of Jimmy Savile

March 2023

  • Boris Johnson in the Commons in February 2022, when he made the claim about Starmer

    Tories pressured BBC over Johnson’s claim Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile

    Party asked corporation not to say accusation was ‘false’ relating to time when Labour leader was DPP

February 2023

  • Actor Steve Coogan filming for the upcoming TV drama about Jimmy Savile.

    BBC Jimmy Savile drama to air this year despite concerns

    Long-delayed drama starring Steve Coogan will air after extensive back-and-forths within BBC over its content
  • Steve Coogan, as Jimmy Savile, filming The Reckoning in 2021.

    ‘Multiply problematic’ – should the BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama ever air?

    Steve Coogan has long been slated to play Savile in The Reckoning. But why the delays – and what has it got to do with the King?
  • ‘Stephen Hough: ‘Hammers hit strings, strings vibrated, and the most amazing sounds entered my ears .… and my life.’

    ‘I was swallowing the piano whole’: Stephen Hough on life as a prodigy – and playing for Jimmy Savile

    In an extract from his new childhood memoir, the great concert pianist recalls falling in love with the instrument, pestering his parents for lessons … and the deception on Jim’ll Fix It

April 2022

  • Jimmy Savile

    Jimmy Savile escaped justice because of libel laws, claims reporter

    The Sun tried to expose Savile as paedophile but had to back down over fears of costly libel case, investigative journalist says
  • Jimmy Savile on his knighthood in 1990.

    Outrageous libel laws protected Jimmy Savile. At last, change is on the cards

    Meirion Jones
    Moves to rein in lawsuits that protect the rich, powerful and wicked are decades, if not centuries, overdue, says journalist Meirion Jones
  • Sonia Sodha

    How can an MP even think of excusing child abuse? Have we learned nothing?

    Sonia Sodha
    Crispin Blunt’s support of Imran Ahmad Khan shows that power can still disregard victims
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