The Jimmy Savile scandal is inciting some ugly emotions, radio review
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The Telegraph's radio critic Gillian Reynolds says the Any Questions panel were asked "whether it was time, as Jimmy Savile is dead, to lay the stories about him to rest?" She agrees with Claire Fox (who replied, on the whole yes, since no real justice can be done in this case since the accused is dead). "I have little doubt that some of Savile’s activities were appalling, probably even criminal. He said as much himself in his autobiography. I knew one of his Radio 1 producers, now dead, who was appalled by his behaviour and said so at the time....
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