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	Podcast:		Saturday Morning
	Episode:		Meirion Jones: how Jimmy Savile hid his crimes for decades
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:33:07
	Publish Date:		2022-05-06 20:12:00
	Description:		Jimmy Savile was once celebrated as one of the UK's most beloved television personalities. Following Savile's death in 2011, then-BBC journalist Meirion Jones and his colleague Liz MacKean made a documentary exposing Savile as a serial abuser. But the BBC pulled the documentary before it could air. Allegations against Savile came to light 10 months later on another outlet, leading to a major police investigation. Jones, who features in new Netflix docu-series Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, says Savile was protected, in part, by arcane libel laws that quashed multiple attempts to blow the whistle on him since the 1960s.
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