I’ve met Meirion Jones, the journalist in the new documentary and who was effectively gagged by the BBC when he worked at Panorama. He was giving a talk and I was involved in managing the event through work.
The story is grim and fascinating, and he was a really interesting and friendly bloke, but the maddest thing about that event was there was a small army of ‘Justice 4 Jimmy’ conspiracy nuts who turned up and protested Savile’s innocence. They all bought tickets to the lecture and heckled Meirion, calling him a liar, saying Savile was stitched up etc etc.
The even madder thing was they were all old ladies. The most surreal, weird thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Apparently they have a “festival” to celebrate Jimmy Savile in Whitby or somewhere every year.
This would’ve been around 2015 or so.