Jimmy Savile
Jimmy Savile ended the last weekly edition of Top of the Pops on the 30th of July 2006 with the words 'It's number one, it's still Top of the Pops.' After the closing credits, he turned off the studio lights. Savile had been a fixture of the BBC chart show for decades and was one of the most recognisable faces in British broadcasting.
When he died in 2011, obituaries praised his personal qualities and credited him with raising an estimated £40 million for charity. Within a year, police were calling him a predatory sex offender, possibly one of the most prolific in the history of the United Kingdom.
This documentary asks how an eccentric disc jockey in a tracksuit came to be trusted so completely. It asks why the people who spoke up about him were ignored or disbelieved. And it asks what the institutions around him did once the truth could no longer be avoided.
Consort Terrace, in the Burley area of Leeds, is where James Wilson Vincent Savile was born on the 31st of October 1926. He was the youngest of seven children in a Roman Catholic family. His father, Vincent Joseph Savile, worked as a bookmaker's clerk and insurance agent, and his mother was Agnes Monica Kelly.
Savile grew up during the Great Depression and later said he 'was forged in the crucible of want.' He described his father as 'scrupulously honest but scrupulously broke.'
At the age of two, Savile recovered quickly from an illness, possibly pneumonia. His mother credited the intercession of Margaret Sinclair, a Scottish nun. She had prayed at Leeds Cathedral after picking up a pamphlet about Sinclair, and she believed her son owed his life to that prayer.
At 14, Savile left St Anne's Roman Catholic School in Leeds and took an office job. At 18, during the Second World War, he was conscripted as a Bevin Boy, one of the young men sent to work in the coal mines. He reportedly suffered spinal injuries when a shot-firer's explosion went off. Recovery was slow. He wore a steel corset and walked with sticks for three years.
After his colliery work, Savile became a scrap metal dealer. He had also been playing records in dance halls since the early 1940s. In his autobiography, he claimed to have been the first DJ to use two turntables and a microphone, at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947.
That claim was false. Twin turntables were illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929 and advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in 1931.
In 1951, Savile competed in the Tour of Britain cycle race. He also worked as a professional wrestler.
The mid-1950s found him managing the Plaza Ballroom on Oxford Street in Manchester and living in Salford. On Great Clowes Street in Higher Broughton, neighbours often saw him sitting on his front door steps. Later he shared the house with Ray Teret, who became his support DJ, assistant and chauffeur.
Between 1955 and 1956, Savile managed the Mecca-owned Palais dance hall in Ilford, Essex. His Monday evening sessions played records only, cost one shilling, and drew local teenagers. A music executive from Decca Records noticed him there. He later managed the Mecca Locarno ballroom in Leeds, from the late 1950s into the early 1960s.
A couple of years after Ilford, in 1958, his career in the media began.
Six million listeners tuned in to Savile's Saturday show on Radio Luxembourg. By 1968 he was presenting six programmes a week for the station, which he had joined in 1958. He was already one of the leading DJs in Britain by the early 1960s.
Later in 1968, Savile moved to Radio 1. His first programme there was Savile's Travels, a Sunday show in which he journeyed around the UK talking to members of the public. From 1969 to 1973 he fronted Speakeasy, a discussion programme for teenagers.
Jimmy Savile's Old Record Club, his Sunday lunchtime show, was the first to feature old charts. Savile ran an imaginary quiz with a points system, in which listeners guessed the song and the artist. It began in 1973 as The Double Top Ten Show and ended in 1987 as The Triple Top Ten Show. He left Radio 1 then, after 19 years.
From March 1987 until October 1989, The Vintage Chart Show on the BBC World Service played top tens from 1957 to 1987. From March 1989 to August 1997, he revived his Radio 1 shows on stations around the UK. Most used a Gold format, including Xtra AM in the West Midlands and the Classic Gold network in Yorkshire.
In 1994, the satirist Chris Morris gave a fake obituary on BBC Radio 1, saying that Savile had collapsed and died. It allegedly drew threats of legal action from Savile and forced an apology from Morris.
Savile presented shows on the Real Radio network on the 25th of December 2005 and the 1st of January 2007. The Christmas show counted down the festive top tens from 10, 20 and 30 years earlier.
Tyne Tees Television gave Savile his first television role in May 1960. He co-presented the music programme Young at Heart with Valerie Masters, and it aired for eight weeks. The show went out in black and white, yet Savile dyed his hair a different colour every week as a running joke.
The first edition of Top of the Pops came from Dickenson Road Studios, a television studio in a converted church in Rusholme, Manchester. Savile remained a regular presenter until 1988. In the early 1960s he also co-hosted the televised New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert with Pete Murray. Held annually at the Empire Pool in Wembley, it featured the Beatles, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, and the Who.
On the 31st of December 1969, Savile hosted Pop Go the Sixties, a BBC and ZDF co-production shown across Western Europe. It celebrated the hits of the decade.
'Clunk Click Every Trip' was a road safety film promoting seatbelts. The clunk stood for the sound of the car door and the click for the seatbelt fastening. The campaign led to Clunk, Click, a Saturday-night chat and variety show on BBC One from 1973. In 1974 it featured the UK heats of the Eurovision Song Contest, with Olivia Newton-John.
After two series, Clunk, Click gave way to Jim'll Fix It, which Savile presented from 1975 to 1994. This early Saturday evening programme arranged for the wishes of viewers, mainly children, to come true. In 1977, Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers' and Listeners' Association gave him an award for 'wholesome family entertainment.'
In the early 1980s, Savile fronted a long-running series of British Rail advertisements for the InterCity 125, declaring 'This is the age of the train.' Thames Television's This Is Your Life featured him twice, in January 1970 with Eamonn Andrews and in December 1990 with Michael Aspel.
On the 14th and the 15th of January 2006, Savile visited the Celebrity Big Brother house. He 'fixed it' for housemates to have their wishes granted. Pete Burns received a message from his boyfriend, Michael, and from his ex-wife, Lynn. Dennis Rodman traded Savile's offering for a supply of cigarettes for the other housemates.
In 2007 he returned to television with Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again, recreating some of the most popular fix-its with the same people.
'An eccentric adornment to British public life' is how one description of Savile put it, calling him a ubiquitous and distinctive face on television and a shrewd promoter of his own image. He created a bizarre yodel and a stock of catchphrases: 'How's about that, then?', 'Now then, now then', 'Goodness gracious', 'As it 'appens' and 'Guys and gals'.
Savile was frequently spoofed for his dress sense, which usually meant a tracksuit or shellsuit and gold jewellery. In 2009, with his consent, a range of licensed fancy dress costumes was released. He was often pictured holding a cigar. He claimed to have started smoking them at seven, when his father gave him a drag one Christmas, hoping to put him off for ever.
Savile belonged to Mensa and the Institute of Advanced Motorists, and he drove a Rolls-Royce. In 1975 the British Gypsy Council made him a life member, the first 'outsider' so honoured. In 1984 he joined the Athenaeum, a gentlemen's club on Pall Mall in London.
He served for many years as chieftain of the Lochaber Highland Games and owned a house in Glen Coe. His appearance on the final Top of the Pops in 2006 was pre-recorded because it clashed with the games.
A tough-guy image, promoted by his entourage, ran alongside the eccentricity. In a 1971 bout with the wrestler Adrian Street, Savile was hit with real blows. Street later said he would have given him an even bigger hiding had he known then what he knows now.
Savile never married. He lived with his mother, whom he called the 'Duchess', and after she died he kept her bedroom and wardrobe exactly as they were. Every year he had her clothes dry cleaned. His autobiography boasted of many sexual relations with women, listing trains, boats, planes, bushes, fields, slag heaps and desks among the settings.
Margaret Thatcher described his charity work as 'marvellous' in 1981. It has been reported that Savile spent 11 consecutive New Year's Eves at Chequers with the Thatcher family. Thatcher's daughter Carol disputes this, as does Lord Bell, a close friend of the family, who said 'people make up such rubbish.' Letters released by the National Archives in December 2012 confirmed a 'close friendship', though some were heavily redacted.
Savile met Prince Charles through mutual charity interests. His work at Stoke Mandeville Hospital also made him a useful person for the Prince to ask for advice on navigating Britain's health authorities. In 1999, Charles visited Savile's Glen Coe home for a private meal. He reportedly sent a gift and a note for Savile's 80th birthday, reading: 'Nobody will ever know what you have done for this country, Jimmy.'
Telegrams also came from Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Philip. Sir Angus Ogilvy sent a handwritten letter, and Sarah, Duchess of York, a homemade card. In 1989, Savile hand-wrote unofficial guidelines for Charles on how the royal family and staff might respond to disasters. Charles showed the dossier to Prince Philip, who passed its contents on to Queen Elizabeth II.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury is where Savile volunteered for many years as a porter. He raised money for its Spinal Unit, for the National Spinal Injuries Centre, and for St Francis Ward, which treats children and teenagers with spinal cord injuries. He also raised money for Ireland's Central Remedial Clinic and for several Jewish charities. In 2009, The Guardian called him a 'prodigious philanthropist.'
Savile also volunteered at Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. In August 1988, junior health minister Edwina Currie appointed him chair of an interim task force overseeing Broadmoor after its board members were suspended. He had his own rooms at both Stoke Mandeville and Broadmoor.
In January 1988, the News of the World published an article suggesting that Savile had been in a position to secure the release of Broadmoor patients considered 'dangerous.' He sued News Group Newspapers in 1989 and won on the 11th of July 1989. The company paid his legal costs, and editors Kelvin MacKenzie and Patsy Chapman apologised.
From 1974 to 1988, Savile was honorary president of Phab, which stands for Physically Handicapped in the Able Bodied community. He ran many marathons, several of them for Phab, including its annual half marathon around Hyde Park in London. He cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats in 10 days for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He also ran in the Scottish People's Marathon.
It was reported that he completed the London Marathon at the age of 79. Rumours that he was driven round in a lead vehicle as an 'observer' were denied by marathon officials.
Savile sponsored medical students doing undergraduate research through the Leeds University Research Enterprise scholarship scheme, donating more than £60,000 every year. In 2010 the scheme received a commitment of £500,000 over the following five years. After his death, a bequest was confirmed to continue the support.
He set up the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust in 1981 and the Leeds-based Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust in 1984.
In 2012 it was reported that Savile had sexually abused vulnerable patients at the very hospitals where he volunteered.
The earliest known report to reach police about Savile dates from 1958. Two police investigations during his lifetime considered reports about him, and neither led to charges. Each concluded there was insufficient evidence for sexual offences. Sporadic allegations of child abuse reached back to 1963 but became widely publicised only after his death.
His 1974 autobiography, As it Happens, contained admissions of improper sexual conduct. They appear to have passed unnoticed.
John Lydon, singer with the Sex Pistols and later Public Image Ltd, spoke out in October 1978, in an interview recorded for BBC Radio 1. 'I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile; I think he's a hypocrite,' he said. 'I bet he's into all kinds of seediness that we all know about, but are not allowed to talk about. I know some rumours.' He added: 'I bet none of this will be allowed out.'
The BBC edited the comment out before broadcast. The complete interview appeared only in 2013, as a bonus track on a re-release of Public Image: First Issue. In October 2014, Lydon explained that by 'killed' he had meant locking Savile up to stop him assaulting young children. He said he was disgusted at the media pretending they were not aware.
In 1987, the Scottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz recorded a performance in Edinburgh in which he called Savile a paedophile. The album, Gobshite, was withdrawn amid fears of legal action.
Lynn Barber put the rumours to Savile in a 1990 interview for The Independent on Sunday, asking about talk that he liked 'little girls.' He replied that young girls did not gather round him because of who he was, but because he knew the stars they loved.
In 1991, Savile appeared on the radio series In the Psychiatrist's Chair with Anthony Clare, who found him to be 'a man without feelings.' Introducing the published transcript in 1992, Clare wrote: 'There is something chilling about this 20th-century 'saint'.' In 1995, Andrew Neil interviewed him for the television series Is This Your Life? Savile reportedly used a banana to avoid discussing his personal life.
Louis Theroux filmed Savile for the documentary When Louis Met... Jimmy in April 2000. On camera, Savile confided that he used to beat people up and lock them in a basement while managing nightclubs. Theroux raised the old rumours of paedophilia. Savile replied: 'We live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say 'I don't like children', because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.' He also said, 'I know I'm not.'
In 2016, BBC Two aired a follow-up, Louis Theroux: Savile. It examined Theroux's own failure to enquire more thoroughly in 2000.
Police interviewed Savile under caution in 2007 about an allegation of indecent assault in the 1970s at Duncroft Approved School for Girls near Staines, Surrey, where he was a regular visitor. By October 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service had decided there was insufficient evidence to act, and no charges were brought. The Director of Public Prosecutions later reviewed the decision and apologised for how the charging decision was handled.
In March 2008, Savile began legal proceedings against The Sun, which had linked him in several articles to abuse at the Haut de la Garenne children's home in Jersey. He first denied ever visiting the home. After a photograph appeared of him there, surrounded by children, he admitted that he had. The States of Jersey Police later said they had investigated a 2008 allegation of indecent assault there in the 1970s but found insufficient evidence.
Sir Roger Jones, a former BBC governor for Wales and chairman of the Children in Need charity, said in 2012 that he had banned the 'very strange' and 'creepy' Savile from involvement more than a decade before Savile's death. Dickie Arbiter, a former royal family press secretary, recalled that in the late 1980s Savile's behaviour at St James's Palace raised 'concern and suspicion.' Arbiter said Savile would 'do the rounds of the young ladies taking their hands and rubbing his lips all the way up their arms.' No reports were made.
Richard Harrison, a long-serving psychiatric nurse at Broadmoor, said staff regarded Savile as 'a man with a severe personality disorder and a liking for children.' Another nurse, Bob Allen, once reported Savile to a supervisor over apparent improper conduct with a juvenile. No action was taken.
On the 9th of August 1997, Savile underwent a three-hour quadruple heart-bypass operation at Killingbeck Hospital in Leeds. He had known for at least four years that he needed it. He arranged for a bench in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, to be dedicated to him, with a plaque reading 'Sir Jimmy Savile, but not just yet.'
On the 29th of October 2011, Savile was found dead at his penthouse flat overlooking Roundhay Park in Leeds. He had been in hospital with pneumonia, and the death was not suspicious. His nephew, Roger Foster, said he 'passed away quietly in his sleep during the night.'
A closed satin gold coffin was displayed at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, alongside the last cigar he smoked and his two This Is Your Life books. Around 4,000 people came to pay tribute. His funeral took place at Leeds Cathedral on the 9th of November 2011, and he was buried at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough.
Savile's will specified that the coffin be inclined at 45 degrees so he could 'see the sea.' It was encased in concrete 'as a security measure.'
Immediately after the death, the BBC's Newsnight programme began investigating reports that Savile was a sexual abuser. Meirion Jones and Liz MacKean interviewed one alleged victim on camera, and others agreed to have their stories told. They alleged abuse at Duncroft, at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and at the BBC. Newsnight also learned that Surrey Police had investigated allegations against him.
The item was scheduled for the 7th of December 2011 but was withdrawn before broadcast. Over Christmas 2011, the BBC aired two tributes to Savile.
A review led by Nick Pollard, published in December 2012, called the decision not to broadcast 'flawed.' It said Jones and MacKean had found 'cogent evidence' that Savile was an abuser. George Entwistle, then Director of BBC Vision, had been told about the plan. The review found him 'unnecessarily cautious, and an opportunity was lost.'
On the 28th of September 2012, almost a year after the death, ITV announced a documentary for its Exposure series, The Other Side of Jimmy Savile. Mark Williams-Thomas, a consultant on the original Newsnight investigation, presented it. He revealed claims by up to 10 women, including one under 14 at the time, that Savile had molested or raped them in the 1960s and 1970s.
The documentary aired on the 3rd of October. The next day, the Metropolitan Police said its Child Abuse Investigation Command would assess the allegations.
On the 16th of October 2012, BBC Director-General George Entwistle apologised and appointed former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith to review the culture and practices of the BBC in Savile's time. Nick Pollard, a former Sky News executive, was asked to examine why the Newsnight item was dropped.
By the 19th of October, police were pursuing 400 lines of inquiry based on testimony from 200 witnesses through 14 police forces across the UK. They described the alleged abuse as 'on an unprecedented scale' and the number of potential victims as 'staggering.' Investigations codenamed Operation Yewtree were opened, and they included a review of the 2009 Crown Prosecution Service decision to drop a prosecution as 'unlikely to succeed.' By the 25th of October, possible victims numbered nearly 300.
On the 22nd of October, the BBC programme Panorama broadcast an investigation into Newsnight and found evidence suggesting 'senior manager' pressure. The same day, Newsnight editor Peter Rippon stepped down with immediate effect. The Department of Health appointed former barrister Kate Lampard to oversee its investigations into Savile at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds General Infirmary, Broadmoor and other facilities.
An auction of Savile's possessions took place at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on the 30th of July 2012, with proceeds going to charity. His silver Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible sold for £130,000 to an internet bidder. Its number plate, JS 247, recalled the 247 metres wavelength once used by BBC Radio 1.
On the 12th of November 2012, the Metropolitan Police announced that 450 alleged victims had contacted them in the ten weeks since the investigation began. Officers had recorded 199 crimes in 17 police force areas in which Savile was a suspect, including 31 allegations of rape in seven force areas. Some 82% of those reporting abuse were female, and 80% were children or young people at the time.
In January 2013, a joint report by the NSPCC and the Metropolitan Police, Giving Victims a Voice, put the alleged abuse between 1955 and 2009. Complainants were aged from 8 to 47 at the time. They included 28 children under 10, among them 10 boys aged eight. A further 63 were girls aged 13 to 16, and nearly three-quarters of the alleged victims were under 18. Some 214 criminal offences were recorded, with 34 rapes reported.
In March 2013, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary found that 214 of the complaints made after his death would have been criminal offences if reported at the time. Sixteen victims said they were raped by Savile when under 16, four of them under 10. Another 13 reported serious sexual assaults, four of them under 10. Ten more said he raped them after the age of 16.
In June 2014, investigations at 28 NHS hospitals concluded that Savile had sexually assaulted staff and patients aged between 5 and 75. On the 26th of June 2014, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised in the House of Commons to the patients abused. He confirmed that complaints raised before 2012 had been ignored by the bureaucratic system. He called Savile a 'callous, opportunistic, wicked predator' who had exploited the trust of a nation.
The writer Mark Lawson, who encountered Savile at the BBC, wrote in 2022 that the true story was the victims and how institutions let them down. He listed the BBC, the Department of Health, the Conservative party, the Catholic church, police forces, local councils and libel law. To him, the British establishment had provided Savile 'a dazzling shield.'
Names came off buildings and landmarks within a month of the scandal. A memorial plaque at his former home in Scarborough was removed in early October 2012 after being defaced with graffiti. A wooden statue at Scotstoun Leisure Centre in Glasgow was taken away, and so were the signs for 'Savile's View' on a Scarborough footpath. At the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Savile's Hall was renamed New Dock Hall.
The Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust and the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust held £3.7 million and £1.7 million respectively. They announced they were too closely tied to his name to be sustainable. They would close and distribute their funds to other charities, to spare beneficiaries future media attention.
On the 9th of October 2012, relatives said Savile's headstone would be removed, destroyed and sent to landfill. The family expressed sorrow for the victims' anguish. His body remains in Scarborough. A campaign to exhume and cremate it failed because the charities that received money from his will rejected the £20,000 cost. His Glen Coe cottage was vandalised with spray-paint in October 2012 and sold in May 2013.
Savile's estate, believed to be worth about £4-4.3 million, was frozen by its executors, NatWest, in case alleged victims made claims for damages. After expenses, about £3.3 million remained. Victims with no claim against another body such as the BBC or the NHS were given priority, and every victim was limited to £60,000 across all bodies combined. The courts approved the scheme in late 2014.
Savile was appointed OBE in the 1972 New Year Honours, for personal services to hospitals and charities. Margaret Thatcher made four attempts to have him knighted before succeeding in 1990, in her final year in office. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for charitable services. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard in March 2019 that Robert Armstrong, head of the Honours Committee, had resisted her attempts because of concerns about Savile's private life. An anonymous letter received in 1998 had warned that 'reports of a paedophilia nature' could emerge.
A knighthood expires at death and cannot be posthumously revoked. On the 30th of September 2021, the Forfeiture Committee published a statement in The London Gazette. It said that had Savile been convicted of the crimes of which he is accused, forfeiture proceedings would have commenced.
Other honours were withdrawn. Pope John Paul II had made him a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great in 1990. The Holy See said the honour should not have been given and that it expires at death. The University of Leeds revoked its 1986 honorary degree in 2012, and the University of Bedfordshire rescinded its 2009 honorary doctorate that October. Scarborough removed his Freedom of the Borough in November 2012, and the Royal Marines ordered his honorary green beret expunged from their records. Episodes of Top of the Pops hosted by him are not repeated.
In April 2022, Netflix released Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, a two-part documentary from 72 Films. In October 2023, after a delay for re-editing, the BBC broadcast a four-part drama based in part on the book In Plain Sight: the Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies. A source said it was edited meticulously so as not to cause victims more pain.
Steve Coogan was cast as Savile in September 2021. He said he had not taken the decision lightly and called it a horrific story that needs to be told.
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Who was Jimmy Savile?
Jimmy Savile (the 31st of October 1926 - the 29th of October 2011) was an English media personality and disc jockey. He hosted the BBC shows Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. After his death, police concluded he had been a predatory sex offender.
When did Jimmy Savile present Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It?
Jimmy Savile was a regular Top of the Pops presenter from 1964 to 1988 and co-hosted its last weekly edition in 2006. He presented Jim'll Fix It from 1975 to 1994.
How did the Jimmy Savile scandal come to light?
An ITV Exposure documentary, The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, was broadcast on the 3rd of October 2012. It followed a BBC Newsnight investigation that had been withdrawn before broadcast in December 2011. Police and several public bodies then began investigations.
How many people made complaints against Jimmy Savile?
By the 12th of November 2012, 450 alleged victims had contacted the Metropolitan Police. A January 2013 NSPCC and Metropolitan Police report put the alleged abuse between 1955 and 2009, with complainants aged from 8 to 47.
How much money did Jimmy Savile raise for charity?
Jimmy Savile is estimated to have raised £40 million for charity, notably for Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor Hospital. His two charitable trusts closed in 2012 and distributed their funds to other charities.
Were Jimmy Savile's honours taken away?
Many were withdrawn, including honorary degrees from the University of Leeds and the University of Bedfordshire and the Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough. His OBE and knighthood expired at his death and could not be revoked, though the Forfeiture Committee said in 2021 that proceedings would have begun had he been convicted.
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- 95Sir Jimmy Savile OBEScarborough in Pictures
- 96NewsDJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile dies, aged 8429 October 2011
- 97NewsVeteran Star Sir Jimmy Savile Dies Aged 8429 October 2011
- 98NewsJimmy Savile's Roundhay Park penthouse flat demolished19 October 2016
- 99Sir Jimmy Savile's Coffin Put in Leeds BarGerard Tubb — 8 November 2011
- 100NewsSir Jimmy Savile: More time for fans to view gold coffin8 November 2011
- 101NewsSir Jimmy Savile bid farewell by people of Leeds8 November 2011
- 102NewsSir Jimmy Savile's funeral takes place at Leeds Cathedral9 November 2011
- 103NewsGold coffin among final wishes of Leeds's own Sir Jimmy SavileBellamy, Alison — 2 November 2011
- 104NewsJimmy Savile buried in Scarborough cemetery10 November 2011
- 105NewsHow Sir Jim's wish 'to see the sea' will be granted9 November 2011
- 106NewsSir Jimmy Savile's coffin encased in concrete14 November 2011
- 107NewsSir Jimmy Savile goods auction raises £320,000 for his charities31 July 2012
- 108NewsThe missed chances to get Jimmy Savile12 March 2013
- 109NewsJimmy Savile: a strange and sordid life unravels after deathNeil Tweedie et al. — 26 October 2012
- 110Interview With John Lydon (BBC Radio 1, Rock On, 28 October 1978). Public Image: First Issue (2013 remaster). Light in the Attic Records. Disc 2, track 2.
- 111NewsReissue CDs Weekly: Public Image Ltd, Tom Robinson Band, Michael Chapman, Bobby WhitlockKieron Tyler — 7 July 2013
- 112NewsJohn Lydon outspoken at Sheffield's Off The Shelf16 October 2014
- 114BookSexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing AbuseNick Basannavar — Springer Nature — 23 August 2021
- 115NewsLynn Barber: I was nervous when I told Jimmy Savile, 'People say you like little girls'Lynn Barber — 2 October 2012
- 116NewsWhen Louis asked Jimmy about being a paedophileAlex Hern — 3 October 2012
- 117NewsLouis Theroux: Savile – how the broadcaster duped the documentary maker: reviewJasper Rees — 3 October 2016
- 118Louis Theroux: Savile, BBC TwoTom Birchenough — 3 October 2016
- 119NewsLouis Theroux: 'I have a slight fear of intimacy'Carole Cadwalladr — 2 October 2016
- 120NewsJimmy Savile Caught Groping A Girl In Front Of Her Mother In New Louis Theroux FootageLawrence Arboleda — 2 October 2016
- 121NewsLouis Theroux to make new Jimmy Savile film3 November 2015
- 122NewsLouis Theroux on SavileDan Mahoney — 14 October 2016
- 123NewsJimmy Savile scandal: Chances to prosecute 'were missed'11 January 2013
- 124NewsJimmy Savile interviewed under caution over indecent assault allegationSam Marsden et al. — 1 October 2012
- 125NewsJimmy Savile turns to Fox Hayes for action against The SunNina Goswami — 17 March 2008
- 126NewsSir Jimmy Savile: He raped me as a teenager claims womanRichard Alleyne — 3 October 2012
- 127NewsJimmy Savile named in Jersey children's home abuse inquiry2 October 2012
- 128NewsJimmy Savile claimed paedophile Gary Glitter 'did nothing wrong'Richard Alleyne — 1 October 2012
- 129NewsJimmy Savile was banned from Children in Need, says Sir Roger Jones29 October 2012
- 131Jimmy Savile scandal: BBC branded 'incapable' of dealing with allegations19 December 2012
- 132NewsJimmy Savile scandal: Newsnight emails timelineJosh Halliday — 22 October 2012
- 133BBC 'knew Jimmy Savile tribute would be controversial'23 February 2013
- 134NewsNewsnight's Jimmy Savile story: key points from the Pollard reportJohn Plunkett — 19 December 2012
- 135NewsBBC criticised for Newsnight axed Jimmy Savile report19 December 2012
- 136MagazineThe Oldie scoop that exposed Jimmy SavileMiles Goslett — April 2019
- 137NewsBBC 'buried Savile sex abuse claims to save its reputation'Anita Singh — 10 February 2012
- 138News'Sir Jimmy Savile abused us at the BBC', claim womenAdams, Stephen — 30 September 2012
- 139NewsMet Police to assess Jimmy Savile claims4 October 2012
- 140NewsBBC's Jimmy Savile probe to be led by Harold Shipman inquiry judgeRowena Mason — 16 October 2012
- 141NewsJimmy Savile: police launch criminal investigation after victims claim some abusers are still aliveRayner, Gordon — 19 October 2012
- 142NewsJimmy Savile: BBC scrapped investigation after Newsnight came 'under pressure' from senior managersChristopher Hope et al. — 21 October 2012
- 143NewsEntwistle prepares for starring role in his own BBC drama as he faces MPs over Savile affairIan Burrell — 24 October 2012
- 144NewsBBC Newsnight editor steps aside over Jimmy Savile claims22 October 2012
- 145NewsJimmy Savile scandal: Kate Lampard to lead NHS investigation17 October 2012
- 146NewsJimmy Savile's victims accuse him of 200 crimes, including 31 rapesMarsden, Sam — 12 December 2012
- 147NewsJimmy Savile abuse: Number of alleged victims reaches 45012 December 2012
- 148NewsSavile told hospital staff he performed sex acts on corpses in Leeds mortuaryHalliday, Josh — 26 June 2014
- 149Savile abused dead bodies at NHS hospitalSky News — 26 June 2014
- 150NewsThe Jimmy Savile Investigation: Exposure Update, ITV1, reviewMidgley, Neil — 22 November 2012
- 152ReportGiving Victims a Voice – Joint report into sexual allegations against Jimmy SavileNSPCC — January 2013
- 153NewsJimmy Savile scandal: Report reveals decades of abuse11 January 2013
- 154NewsJimmy Savile: Ex-Policeman 'Acted For Star'20 February 2013
- 155NewsI beat Jimmy Savile black and blueNathan Bevan — 3 November 2013
- 156NewsSavile: Knighthood committee 'told about abuse in 1998'14 March 2019
- 157NewsThe day I thwarted Jimmy Savile: Mark Lawson on trying to stop Britain's worst sex offenderMark Lawson — 1 April 2022
- 158NewsBetrayed by my good friend Jimmy SavileAlison Bellamy — 29 October 2012
- 159NewsJimmy Savile: Erasing the memoryFinlo Rohrer — 1 November 2012
- 160NewsSir Jimmy Savile Scarborough plaque defaced and removed4 October 2012
- 161NewsSir Jimmy Savile statue removed from Scotstoun Leisure Centre3 October 2012
- 162NewsSir Jimmy Savile Scarborough footpath sign removed8 October 2012
- 163News'Savile's View' Road Signs Removed in Scarborough8 October 2012
- 164NewsSavile's Hall set to rebrand as New Dock Hall following Jimmy Savile scandal23 October 2012
- 165NewsJimmy Savile's £4,000 gravestone to be dismantled following allegations9 October 2012
- 166NewsJimmy Savile's headstone removed from Scarborough cemetery10 October 2012
- 167NewsInscription on Savile's headstone to be ground off10 October 2012
- 168NewsJimmy Savile: relatives speak of sympathy for victims and 'anguish' at child sex allegationsDavid Barrett — 27 October 2012
- 169Secret plans to dig up Jimmy Savile's body revealed19 January 2015
- 170NewsGary Glitter arrested by police on Jimmy Savile caseRobert Booth — 29 October 2012
- 171NewsSavile's Glencoe home vandalised28 October 2012
- 172NewsJimmy Savile's Glencoe home on sale for £310kSteve Smith — 16 May 2013
- 173NewsJimmy Savile cottage in Glencoe sells for £212,00030 May 2013
- 174NewsBroadmoor staff said Jimmy Savile was a 'psychopath' with a 'liking for children'Richard Alleyne et al. — 1 November 2012
- 175NewsInside the mind of Jimmy SavileOliver James — 26 June 2014
- 176NewsWhy you shouldn't ignore your creepiness alertVal Burns — 17 April 2016
- 177NewsJimmy Savile estate frozen after abuse claims1 November 2012
- 179NewsAll of Jimmy Savile's estate to be used to settle abuse claims1 May 2014
- 180NewsJimmy Savile: Victims' compensation scheme approved16 December 2014
- 182NewsTop of the Pops will continue on BBC4 – but without Jimmy Savile and Dave Lee Travis episodesPaul Revoir — 27 November 2015
- 183NewsRapes, abuse, possible necrophilia: DJ Jimmy Savile's hospital horrors detailedLaura Smith-Spark — 26 June 2014
- 184NewsControversial BBC Jimmy Savile Drama Delayed To 2024 Due To 'Sensitivities'10 November 2022
- 185NewsTV lookahead: 22 highlights to look out for in 2022Lizo Mzimba — 26 December 2021
- 186NewsBBC Jimmy Savile drama to air this year despite concernsJim Waterson — 28 February 2023
- 187BookIn Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy SavileDan Davies — Quercus — 2014
- 189News'Why was I so obsessed with him?': my seven years in search of Jimmy Savile's secretsDan Davies — 9 October 2023
- 190NewsBBC announces drama mini-series The Reckoning about life of Jimmy SavileLauren Morris — 14 October 2020
- 191Press releaseSteve Coogan cast as lead in BBC Drama The ReckoningBBC Media Centre — 25 September 2021
- 192NewsMargaret Thatcher made repeated attempts to get Jimmy Savile knighted – despite pleas from concerned aidesJonathon Brown — 17 July 2013
- 193NewsCould Jimmy Savile lose knighthood over abuse claims?9 October 2012
- 195NewsFans flock to cathedral service for Sir Jimmy SavileGerard Tubb — 9 November 2011
- 196NewsJimmy Savile: Catholic Church bid to remove papal knighthood26 October 2012
- 197NewsJimmy Savile, eccentric king of children's TV, dies aged 84Tracy McVeigh — 30 October 2011
- 199Appendix, list of recipients of the of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta published in the Annual Report of the British Association, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 2010.
- 200NewsRunners for Charlotte take on 30-mile Marine challenge13 July 2009
- 201NewsRoyal Marines 'erase' the memory of Jimmy SavileBecca Gliddon — 19 October 2012
- 202NewsUniversity of Leeds using shamed Savile's cashMax Bruges — 12 October 2012
- 203Honorary graduates: 1981 to 2000 - section 1986University of Leeds
- 204NewsSir Jimmy given honorary degree13 November 2009
- 205NewsSir Jimmy Savile is stripped of his honorary doctorateTim Walker — 13 October 2012
- 206Honorary Freemen and Honorary AldermenScarborough Borough Council
- 207NewsJimmy Savile removed from Scarborough's Freemen of the Borough list5 November 2012
- 208Sounds of the 60ssoundsofthe60s.com