In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile

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Apparently she had been sitting in a car down at the barrier with her parents, seen me go through, jumped out, run along the sea road and here she was. Waterson, Jim (26 September 2021). "Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in 'sensitive' BBC drama". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 December 2021.

Jersey and Surrey police both looked into ?accusations against the ?entertainer about abuse in two children’s homes but decided there was not enough evidence to proceed.Not too long after this, Agnes died, aged 85, and Jimmy was said to have been devastated. It's been widely reported that he spent days with her body after she passed. In November 2012, in an article for the London Review of Books that quoted Davies at length, Andrew O'Hagan wrote about Savile and his place in the "creepy" culture of British light entertainment. He made the point that we get the celebrities we deserve. That our culture is paedophiliac. That Savile was our creature. We created him. When I learned of his death, I felt a mixture of anger, sadness and frustration. I attended his three-day funeral, which began at Leeds Cathedral and ended with his gold coffin being lowered into a grave dug at a slope," he added. "It was later marked with a giant gravestone bearing the epitaph 'It was good while it lasted'. Less than a year later, the gravestone, like his legacy, was reduced to rubble. Davies, Dan (9 October 2023). " 'Why was I so obsessed with him?': my seven years in search of Jimmy Savile's secrets". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 October 2023.

Griffin, Louise (22 October 2021). "Steve Coogan gets into character as Jimmy Savile in new look at controversial BBC drama". Metro . Retrieved 22 October 2021. Savile was too canny to ever give much away over numerous interviews despite, in hindsight, some obvious clues. Sadly it was only after he had died that his victims were taken seriously and the substance of the old, dark rumours were finally heard. Savile always insisted that his great secret was that he had no secrets. Nothing could have been further from the truth - there were numerous people and establishments (BBC, the Police, doctors, nurses, friends etc.) whose complacency, corruption and complicity allowed him to systematically ruin hundreds of lives. This makes ' In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile' a compulsive and deeply disturbing read, and one that avoids any sensationalism. Depressing, distressing and essential. Although it's impossible to know whether or not she was suspicious of his criminal behaviour, it's been said that she was untrusting of his success.He showed me through to his kitchen. It was decorated in tiles of pink and brown, or as he put it, "the colour of sex". He asked me what was missing but I already knew, having read scores of newspaper and magazine interviews over the previous 20 years: it didn't contain a cooker. He liked to boast that none of his many homes had one. "It would give women the wrong idea and that would only lead to brain damage." If the BBC can show a Savile story, I can, perhaps should, tell mine. Because the true story is his victims, and how the BBC, Department of Health, Conservative party, Catholic church, police forces, local councils and libel law let them down. I had glimpses of him in action; they live for ever with the consequences of a monster for whom the British establishment – political, royal, broadcasting, ecclesiastical, medical, charitable – provided a dazzling shield. In 1972, Susan was a trainee optician in Leeds. Savile was one of the practice’s customers and she first met him when he came in for an eye test. He was clearly a strange character around the city, but she hadn’t heard any rumours about him. “I knew he was a bit weird, but I never gave it more thought.” In one of the most telling sections, Savile describes how six groupies once spent the night with him and his minder at a flat.