(DJ, TV presenter, campaigner, wrestler: 1/6/1926 – 29/10/2011). Part A: Jimmy Savile was on one level a very British kind of celebrity. Until his death, he was known to every British household as an eccentric, charismatic cigar-smoking, Roll Royce driving man who almost constantly played word games. After making his name in music, he became truly a man of the nation – for the young (hosting a prime-time TV show making children’s’ dreams come true), the teenaged (a pioneer club and radio DJ), the old (visiting the elderly in Stoke Mandeville Hospital) and the marginalised (championing the inmates of secure psychiatric hospitals). Publicly, he gained unprecedented access to the royal family and the prime minister. His systematically gained access to senior police officers was more private.
Icon no 6: Jimmy Savile
Icon no 6: Jimmy Savile
Icon no 6: Jimmy Savile
(DJ, TV presenter, campaigner, wrestler: 1/6/1926 – 29/10/2011). Part A: Jimmy Savile was on one level a very British kind of celebrity. Until his death, he was known to every British household as an eccentric, charismatic cigar-smoking, Roll Royce driving man who almost constantly played word games. After making his name in music, he became truly a man of the nation – for the young (hosting a prime-time TV show making children’s’ dreams come true), the teenaged (a pioneer club and radio DJ), the old (visiting the elderly in Stoke Mandeville Hospital) and the marginalised (championing the inmates of secure psychiatric hospitals). Publicly, he gained unprecedented access to the royal family and the prime minister. His systematically gained access to senior police officers was more private.