Jim'll Fix It

Watching last night's Panorama, What the BBC Knew, in which the BBC investigates itself,  I was  reminded of how deeply we were all anaesthetised - for want of a better word -  in the seventies and eighties about the reality of who Jimmy Savile was: he was avuncular and eccentric, he was a good man; he was up there with Blue Peter, part of the safe furniture of childhood. My wee aunt with Down's Syndrome, a couple of years older than...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]></div>