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Ep. 56 Exposing Savile - Part Two
Manage episode 320612283 series 2514488
Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones think they have everything they need to finally expose Jimmy Savile’s abhorrent crimes. But as their transmission date gets nearer, their BBC bosses start to pull back.
This is the story of how the BBC came to drop the Newsnight investigation into Savile and the seismic consequences of that decision.
This is the second part of a two-episode story.
Read all about it:
https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-10-04/watch-the-itv-documentary-on-jimmy-savile/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victim-Zero-Jimmy-Savile-Tried/dp/1786060299
https://www.channel4.com/news/by/jackie-long/blogs/my-friend-liz-mackean-a-forensic-journalist-who-had-time-for-people-who-others-ignored
https://www.channel4.com/news/hunted-russia-gay-dispatches-channel-4-video
Special thanks to Liz MacKean's family for their support.
This show is a co-production of Studio to be.
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda
Producer: Olivia Aylmer
Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens
Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza
Transcription support: Soobin Kim
Theme music: Dice muse
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
76 episodes
Manage episode 320612283 series 2514488
Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones think they have everything they need to finally expose Jimmy Savile’s abhorrent crimes. But as their transmission date gets nearer, their BBC bosses start to pull back.
This is the story of how the BBC came to drop the Newsnight investigation into Savile and the seismic consequences of that decision.
This is the second part of a two-episode story.
Read all about it:
https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-10-04/watch-the-itv-documentary-on-jimmy-savile/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victim-Zero-Jimmy-Savile-Tried/dp/1786060299
https://www.channel4.com/news/by/jackie-long/blogs/my-friend-liz-mackean-a-forensic-journalist-who-had-time-for-people-who-others-ignored
https://www.channel4.com/news/hunted-russia-gay-dispatches-channel-4-video
Special thanks to Liz MacKean's family for their support.
This show is a co-production of Studio to be.
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda
Producer: Olivia Aylmer
Audio Editor: Chloe Behrens
Sound design, audio mixing and original music: Claudia Meza
Transcription support: Soobin Kim
Theme music: Dice muse
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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