The joke is being missed by many. At the time Savile was advertising British Rail "Let the Train Take the Strain" the protaganist was angry about the terrible journey. Many felt Savile was creepy but the enormity of his disgusting behaviour wasn't known until later.
While that is true EVERYONE at the BBC. Especially the higher-ups. ALL knew he (and others) were at it. In fact, if you missed it, the Savile case was used to blind the public from all the other abusers and those who let it go on. PS: Heres a fun game for you. Look up the art scuptures, located throughout the original BBC building (the one they now use). Note the artists 'muses' in his work. And the fact (back in the 1920/30's) that he was a known serial abuser of the young. In fact, one guy tried to destroy one of the statues (outside the building), done by this artist. I believe, the media didn't mention the actual artists background/crimes. To finish, the BBC ...still have ALL that art work on display. Throughout the building. Its all 'list art' now. How nice. Hiding things ..'in plain sight'.
Reading threads like this always make me very proud of my dad, who died many years before Savile was exposed but always thought him a creep and a weirdo and would regularly say so when I was growing up. He turned out to be an excellent judge of character.
Oh yes my dad was exactly the same! It's funny also how dad's views rub off on us, as I felt exactly the same about everyone. He always ruled the remote in our house but it didn't bother us haha, he'd turn over Jimmy, and Bruce Forsyth funnily enough! Loved all of The Goons tho'.
I was too naïve to think anything sinister about him. But I simply couldn’t understand his appeal or attraction. I didn’t get what people liked about him. Quite different to Rolf Harris who seemed genuinely talented and humane.
I remember speaking to a Mum whose daughter had been on Fix it. I asked what Saville was like with the children before the show. She said that the production team ensured that there was no contact until they met on the set. They knew what he was like and the risks involved.
While on a cruise ship in the 70s,he tried to make sexual advances towards a 14-year-old girl and was locked in his cabin by the ship's staff until they reached port!
As an American looking from the outside I always thought Saville was creepy as fuck with that leering face...as the stories surfaced I wasn't surprised of who he was ....but the power and keys to Broadmoor?! Total madness
He could also be highly intimidating. He was also super fit and had once been a professional wrestler, he also claimed to know IRA terrorists who would do a job on you on his say so, probably bullshit, but it would still make you think. Oh yes, Savile was a nasty piece of work.
El Leeway He raped dead disabled children too with his keys to the mortuary. Then the establishment made him the no.1 kids entertainer! They like to mock us with these false idols.
El LeewayIt seems total madness from this side of the pond as well. I don't know anyone who can understand how anyone could hand over the keys to Broadmoor to a tv presenter!! It is total madness and has never been explained. I also think his popularity was greatly over rated, he presented top of the pops which people watched for the music not the presenters and he presented Jim'll fix it which was a great format which would have worked with any presenter and like every other child I thought he was a creep.
My wife and I lived in Leeds in the 90's and would often see him skulking around the headrow in his track suite and bling, My wife used to say he was a pervert back then.
Completely right👍 - Saville's pic is only in the sketch because he did BR adverts - no other reason - classic misinterperitation - guess you had to be there in the 70s / 80s 😂
Having been born in 1946, I grew up through the Saville years. He became ubiquitous on tv, featuring in a lot of different programmes. I could never understand why. In comparison to the John Peels, DLTs and the rest, Savile stood out like the proverbial sore thumb! He simply never fitted at all into that world as far as I could see. It was very strange to me.
You are so right, good old DLT only sexual assaulted women who were at least 15. Peely only admitted to having sex with "a lot of underage girls", and his wife was 15, but as far as we know all consensual.
@@AndrewLakeUK Well said. Travis looked like a fumbling, chuckling ELO bear. Peel was the cool cassette-accepting beardy you really wanted to meet. What they did with underage children was to us civilians rock and, to a large extent, roll.
I seem to remember that even Tony Blackburn was sacked by the BBC at one point for having sex with a fourteen year old girl, but they reinstated him when he threatened them with some kind of exposure or legal action.
At that time JS was the face of BR. He was in all their ads. Announcer says the train was 7 hrs late- Rikki's character just arrived on it. He takes out his anger on JS poster. Hardly anyone knew what JS was really like in those days. I grew up with him on TV. He was cringe but also unique, and strangely mesmerising to kids. We were so used to seeing him on telly that he was just part of the establishment. There was nobody to compare him to. Personally, I was too young and innocent to even imagine what he was about.
Very true.. his eyes would amaze me as a child and flet a creepiness about him being too young I watch my family laugh and laugh so thinking he must be a great man..not
Good point - 2 familiar and opposing stereotypes, destined to have their “moment” - but they got along absolutely fine and the punchline was off to the side.
The reference in the sketch is obviously relating to British Rail, however, many folks at the time thought Savile was a creepy weirdo. Used to hate him hosting TOTP.
It's because at the time Savile was the face of British Rail. Savile did TV Adverts advertising British Rail. Savile probably abused Thomas the Tank Engine at the time too as poor Edward looked on.
I know exactly what you mean. Central Station (Sydney) use to have a good basic cafe on the main concourse, now it's been replaced by a trendy expensive cafe/restaurant!
Being the "tea boy" in my first job, I was sent daily to buy bacon rolls from a nearby cafe. The old gal in there looked like that woman in the sketch - Cigarette hanging out of her mouth, coughing continuously, but the thing I always noted were her filthy black fingernails. She looked like she'd just come in from fixing a car. I never bought a roll, and enjoyed watching my workmates scoffing theirs.
I once met up with Savile when we were both running in Regent's Park in the early '80s. I was jogging along with him for ten minutes or so and chatting and he came across as a rather obnoxious figure. I didn't warm to him at all.
Many years ago, my late dad used to comment about him when he had a radio show on BBC radio 2, Sunday mornings, I recall, back in the late 70s/early 80s. JS would brag off about not actually at the radio station, but on a marathon, or some other event. My dad despised him, and always reckoned he was a wrong un! How true that became! Thankfully, my late dad was around to see JS's downfall, albeit after the appalling deeds committed being discovered after his death.
I always remember when we were in the energy crisis and were all issued with petrol coupons. Saville showed his true nature by buying a whole petrol station for himself so he was guaranteed fuel. This was a first insight in to the true nature of this particulat beast nurtured by the BBC. Luckily we never had to use these coupons.
@@andrewward2010 why is that a good thing? Charities are not responsible for what he did and were being fooled like everyone else. They do, most of them, good jobs of helping others, so if he dragged them down it can only mean that's a bad thing, isn't it?
@@wattage2007 he had police friends that came over to his house for a meeting every friday... one person just can't pull this off, if you watch the doc it becomes obvious that he had backup, like big time, and I'm not talking about the quiet victims that were too afraid to talk. For example, the Police received an anonymous letter in a different location, so they sent it to Leeds police (where his cop friends are, remember) and nothing came out of it, they didn't investigate anything... the letter just went away. Jee, I wonder why? This guy was feeling extremely safe, almost like higher ups gave him the ok to do whatever he pleases and just silence everything. I mean people DID talk, but the media and officials didn't take anything of it seriously, well that's at least how it looked like from an outside perspective. but I think many were in on it in some shape or form. They didn't talk about it on purpose. He's not the only predator out there, they network wich is why shit like that can even take place. It wasn't like two times, he molested over 400 Kids. I refuse to believe you can fly under the radar for so long without any "support".
@@TheJamie1965 and that.. well, I wouldn't raise half an eybrow if it were to came out (wich it never will) that the royals are also quite fond of human trafficking and other crimes.
@@dandlion7748 What was he supposed to do exactly? He wasn't management. He said it on live TV. Which would have got him in hot water in the first place. He's always maintained his position. He was a Punk musician not a Social Worker.
@@bmt3315 Chill, my comment to you was just a bit of dark humour, not meant as snappy. And the other bloke asked a question so I just gave him a reasonable answer. I like fish and chips anyway. So long as the fish is crisp and chips are fluffy on the inside, not blathered in grease. 😄
As an American with Scottish ancestry, I am stunned to hear about the horrible sex crimes he did and how they make Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and Bill Cosby look tame. It really is shocking to hear about. Though, I can understand certain British people when they say he gave them the creeps even when he was alive. The fact that he was doing charity work in order to get away with his horrific sex crimes and the fact that numerous allegations weren't really made public until shortly after his death really is something.
@@TheGodParticle I did hear was given free access to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. That being said, I really doubt he would get away with his horrific sex crimes scot-free today.
John Lydon was banned by the BBC for stating "well we all know what Jimmy saville is" back in 79. he was well protected by the BBC and the tory party who he donated large sums of money to
Im 68 now, 'Let the train take the strain' was the ad on TV I think it was. When I was a young man into the music scene this guy used to gross me out as it was obvious to any 16 or 17 year old at the time, he was a dirty twisted old git. I could never stand him or in fact any other Disc Jockey for that matter. Top of the Pops was just to creepy. I got into the old Grey whistle test. loved that.
Steve Wright is still there on my customers’ radios every bloody afternoon , spewing out the exact same cosy pointless tunes and trivia and supported by his equally smug little gang as if it were still 1985. God knows how he’s got away with it . It says something about daytime ‘ music ‘ radio in England and the folk of my generation whom don’t seem capable of moving beyond to something new or more interesting or important. Hell I won’t knock ‘ successful’ folk for the sake of it but when you then hear about the huge wages this guy gets one hopes he shares some of it with more deserving causes. I recently read one DJ or comedian saying Steve was the first hilarious DJ on British radio. Wright was at his best a watered down Kenny Everett copies. I dunno which is worst , celebrity old fart DJs or generic local and commercial ones . 🙄👍
Steve Wright was ace back in the 80's, now he's on radio 2 his style of show is fun and nostalgic but left of mainstream. Things like this are subject to opinion not matter of fact.
Margret Thatcher was instrumental in getting him his knighthood and they also spent many a christmas together!! King Charles was rather fond of him as well!! scary
@RAXM-mk1kl Starmer was not working in the dept at time and had no involvement. Boris Johnson falsely accused him of covering JS case up and was made to apologise to Starmer. Get your facts straight.
@@RAXM-mk1kl Oh do stop this lie. If you really believe your lie to be true. then have the guts not to childishly hide it on here. Send your precise accusations to the Labour Party Central Office signed. Or grow up.
Reading a bit much into the Saville connection. I think there's a tendency to look at any retrospective reference to him in old comedy shows etc and to think they were trying to hint at his dark secrets. I don't see it here. A lot of the public found him simply annoying.
darkdubh Spot on. And of course, the guy was moaning about the long delayed train journey he had just had, and at the time, Saville was the "advertisement face" of British Rail. Still, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory - obviously someone with knowledge of what was going on would write a comedy sketch of someone throwing food at a BR Saville photo, rather than... you know, alert someone (even if people think they were all "in on it", some newspapers would have loved such a scoop)
With regards to this video, I think you're both absolutely correct. That said, I remember a Northern coworker once telling me that the police always talked to Jimmy Saville whenever a child in his area went missing. He told me that at least 10 years before the scandal broke. Of course, some people knew because it was people that Saville was abusing, but it was also at the level of common gossip.
Yes, I agree. As a young lad in the eighties I had no idea that he was a nonce but I did think that he was an annoying, smug and self-aggrandizing prick.
He was a high level Mason and they protected him, so did the police, so did the BBC stop paying your licence immediately if you have any sence... to think the public where paying to be abused and brain washed
Much was made of his charity work, but one wonders if there was an ulterior motive behind it all? I did my first London Marathon in 1989 and passed him in South London glad handing the crowd. He never never passed me, but finished earlier than I did!
My dads job involved working to a tolerance of 100 thousands of an inch. He sliced the ham for British rail sandwiches. They later trained him to weld so he could put the crusts on the meat pies
The Captain of QE2 confined him to his cabin and threw him off at the next port for misdemeanours to young children. Some people wouldn't rightly go along.
why people saw savile as a national treasure when he walked on this planet i will never truly understand apart from the fact he did much to charity, which was only a disguise for his charitable acivities
catholic..........he was allegedly a practising Roman Catholic - maybe he thought instead of doing a few "Hail Mary's" for his Sins that doing 'good deeds' would somehow absolve him of them.
He was very clever and manipulative. He had the right image; he was a miner (working class), DJ at Radio Luxembourg (people's radio station), Top of the Pop's presenter, children's entertainer etc... which made him a household name. When he started raising millions for charity and became catholic, he was bullet proof. He had the keys to the nation. Smoke and mirrors.
It was a spell. The collective said “he was a great guy” and everyone went along with it, although they knew deep down he was a wrong un. People just go with the herd. It’s sad.
I met Saville briefly at a conference centre we were at to see someone else. He was busy doing some squats etc trying to look fit. We were 12 at the time and thought he looked ridiculous. Then he walked through the awning aisle we were standing in as if we were awaiting him and leered at us. Makes me sick to think of it. I had written to him a couple of years before with another friend hoping to get on his show. So glad we were unoriginal in our request to be dressed up in ballgowns and were rejected.
js was known about for decades! All the nurses at a certain large hospital in the capital would tell the children on the ward “if uncle jimmy walks on to the ward pretend to be asleep!” It makes me feel physically sick to hear/watch/read about the things he was said to have done that came out to the public after he died, why was he protected? 🤢😤🤯
one of the ways he got away with it was people would say things like "at a certain large hospital" what difference does it make saying the name. no one is going to sue you.
@@G4RY1159 I mean, they sometimes weren't, Gary. I remember there being a replacement bus service on Sundays for what felt like an age. It was especially annoying because I worked on Sundays and had to get the last bus back to Ardrossan. A person could lose their will to live on the replacement bus service. Fortunately, having grown up in Ardrossan; I never had one to begin with.
As a young kid, only seeing Saville on tv, I looked up to him. I had no sense of the creepiness and thought he was benevolent and kind. I'm sure many kids in the UK felt the same- those of us fortunate enough not to have had one of those terrible encounters
The sad thing was that children at the time saw Jim’ll Fix It as a means of achieving their dreams. The truth is that a despicable pervert had inveigled his way into this situation and used it to lure kids into sitting on his “special chair” and who knows what else? Even the Jim’ll Fix It badge necessitated every “successful” kid at least getting Jim up close and personal with them. A master manipulator in plain sight. This monster used Jim’ll Fix It, Top of the Pops, charity work, Radio 1, and anything else he could deploy to create a celebrity smokescreen/attraction. If there is a God, let’s hope the opposition claim him.
I just saw him as annoyingly "show-off"-ish. Didn't stop me writing in to Jim'll Fix It, in hopes f getting a wish fulfilled. (Got no reply, as far as I recall, let alone a positive one.)
Everybody says 'the bbc protected him' but why would they have known? Youd do better to ask why Broadmoor and Stoke Mandeville hospitals allowed him to roam around children wards unsupervised out of hours.
@@lexiwilson9501 Really miss the Hogmanay ritual of getting back from the pub in time for a bit of Scotch & Rye and some Black Bun. But they would more likly have it deep fired these day's, if you know what I mean .. 🙂
Ricky Fulton's sketches on Hogmanay night are comedy gold. There's no doubt he was throwing that plate at Savile not only because of his train ads. Savile was one creepy mf at the time.
That's what sickens me the most. Think of how many people must've known what Savile was up to and hushed it up. I still think the overall thing was poorly policed and dozens of protectors of Savile got away unpunished.
Might wish to write to the script-writer about that one.....maybe it was personal. Songwriters do similar when they inject lyrics into songs...can be clever stuff.
It said in the title : 'for the wrong reason' - Jimmy Savile used to be the face & voice for British Rail. He used the train to get between his homes in Leeds, Scarborough (pronounced Scar - bru and Glen Coe) also London. He was well known enough he used to say 'This is the age of the train' , before they said 'let the train take the strain' . In the sketch the Scottish feller had spent 9 hours on a train. Enters a BR caff (emblazoned with the BR logo) We think he wants a meal, but is merely getting enough slop together to throw at the leering ugly mug of Sir Jimmy the Paedo Savile!
I is from Yorkshie innit Bro. This is aimed at the numptys from across the pond who say Scar-bo ro. as 3 sylables . I could have said 'Scar-burra' But they'd still go Scar-ro ro. So Scar-bru is the best compromise. But that is how we say it in Yorkshire. Scarborough is on the east Coast of Yorkshire! Where we would say Edin-bru. Scar-bru Luff-bru, and Middles-bru!
The reason why Jimmy Saville's picture was his target was because the man had just had a 9 hour train delay and at the time Saville headed up an advertising campaign for British Rail. Nothing to do with his abuse, back then the public didn't have a clue.
The biggest myth "they censored Rotten" NO THEY DIDNT. And Rotten didn't reveal anything. All he said was JS looked creepy. The Pistols and Public Image Limited were on the bbc with every new record release. Rotten/Lydon was on things like Pop Quiz throughout the 80s, the clips are all on here. Lydon loves saying this but in no way what so ever was he banned from the bbc.
@@Cloughjordan23 Johnny's exact words were "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...". 0:57 here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rjy8oLVOvi4.html
@@Cloughjordan23 A ban, no. But the part of the interview he gave which is in that video was not broadcast at the time. All interviews are edited for broadcast, so whilst it might be somewhat OTT to call it censorship too, it's most definitely true that many people inside and outside the BBC knew what Saville was getting up to, or had heard those rumours, and they were prevented from doing anything because Saville was too powerful. No, Johnny didn't reveal any of the rumours, but he was careful not to step over a libellous line, as he says there. Watching a show about TOTP in the seventies (I think it was) there were recollections from people who were regular audience attendees on the show back then - applying for tickets when their favourite bands released singles in the hope of seeing them - and it was stated that they would hope and pray that Saville would not be the presenter on those occasions, because they knew from experience how creepy the guy was. Back in the days before long overdue reform in the last decade, UK libel laws were routinely used by rich and powerful people to, basically, silence people saying things they didn't want to be heard; and it didn't necessarily have to be libellous either. It was a case of money not just talking but shouting down those without riches. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2011/mar/10/english-libel-law-simon-singh
I have to love how everybody says now, “Oh, I always knew Savile was a creep and a pervert”. Come on, let’s face it. He had us all fooled as we sat laughing our heads off at Jim’ll Fix It.
@@mewesquirrel6720 Ugly doesn't equate to nonce in every scenario though. I agree with the OP. So many bs artists here claiming they knew. No you didn't. I believe some thought him odd and full of himself but unless you had inside information you didn't 'know'.
To me...lt seems that people in the BBC and in the media, knew about Savile and what he was doing from way back...But of cource didn't do anything about it...
@ Nik Reece - The guy's attacking the poster because JS was the face of British Rail's promotional TV adverts and poster campaign. it's got fuck all to do with his sex abuse antics.
Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab.... really?....l think you'll find their actually had been rumours about savile for years at the BBC...
My dad who passed away 2 years ago age 79 never like jimmy. Always said there was something off about him and he wasn't surprised when it all came out about him.
That show knew what everyone else knew back then, Saville was the face of British rail advertising and after a dreadful journey the passenger took his frustration out like that.
The BBC has & had always known about it! The BBC protects all paedophile employees! The BBC makes sure any employee who gets "noisy" about the BBC paedophiles ends up either with cancer, stroke, or simply a bullet in the head, such as the poor woman called Jill Dando! Funny enough, Jill Dando's fiance was promoted to be the gynaecologist for the royal family!
Funny clip I remember it and the br adverts. The BBC knew exactly what Saville and others were up tp and chose to turn a blind eye - John lydon' exposed the fu*#£r in a live bbc interview resulting in the BBC banning John lydon from BBC TV and radio in order to protect Saville - the wankers at the BBC not only allowed Saville and others (Gary glitter - rolf Harris for example) to commit abuse but helped hide/cover up what was going on either in the name of profits or because other people in high positions at the BBC were also involved.
@user-yl1xy5eg7b Not really. The context is a 9 hour train journey to Scotland and nothing to do with the crimes of Savile. You can't look at this with the eyes of 2023 because it does fit.The joke and it was funny is the standard custard pie in the face. The Savile advert was huge in the 70"s and that is the only context to see this joke.
@@chrismarsh8162 I lived through those times. When I was posted to BAOR people I served with used to make 'nervous' jokes about Savile and what he did. Many people in show business knew. Peter Parker despised the man.
@@user-yl1xy5eg7b I worked in Television Centre and I even knew personally one of the TOTP production team. Notwithstanding all the wise-after-the-event statements, there _was_ no open secret, there were no rumours.
So, a little story. I met a guy who ended up being really good friend of mine. The first time we met was around the mid nineties when he was due to.make a kids dream come true on jim'll fix it. Ill never forget what he said to me. He said savile was a "known paedophile". Taken back, i asked what he meant. He said his manager had told him as it was the worst kept industry secret, and he'd been told to watch where he puts his hands. Ill never forget that chat. They all knew!
Jimmy Saville used to call into the restaurant where my mum worked and she always said that there was something creepy about him. She died before he was found out.
Really? Then how come the public don't remember the rumours? Think about it (if you're capable); if we'd all had our suspicions, it wouldn't have been such a shock when the truth came out.
One of the rumours I heard about when I was a young soldier. No one gave specific evidence, but everyone was certain that 'Uncle Jimmy' liked children. Too much.
@@SiliconBong The distressing part is the BBC's complicity, and it was not just Savile. Even his driver, and others. Glitter's 'This is your life' slot, with him telling someone to be quiet about young girls, well that said a lot about the man who 'put the gang in bang'. I used to sing his songs when I was very young. The Beeb appears to have been a haven for them.
'..the BBC's complicity, and it was not just Savile. Even his driver, and others...'@@user-yl1xy5eg7b That's the edge of an 'iceberg of allegations' that still remains hidden. Considering the amount of people working on a television set of the times.
I met J.S. at a 'Speak Easy' broadcast in 1973. I only spoke to him for a few moments and he came over as obnoxious then, but I was only 17 years of age, at the time, and I could not quite put my finger on why I felt so put off by him. I was not surprised when years later it all came out in the media about his abuse activities
Mate a wanted a simple “fuck off” or suhin ,calm down Pedophilia is the most vile form of human behaviour, it happens everywhere and I hope they all get what’s coming to them !
Michael. Oh, trust me they will! Please don't come at me with Kenmora, I'm aware of that, and no so called 'church' was directly behind that, not like the R.C. church is! By the way I don't need to swear to communicate!
Ulster 1690 lots of uneducated thick inbred retarded northern jock/mick scum on this thread... wish we could nuke the peasant North & just have South East England, Devon & Cornwall & Wales left... England would be great again without having to support all these northerners leeching off the benefit system
The BBC has & had always known about it! The BBC protects all paedophile employees! The BBC makes sure any employee who gets "noisy" about the BBC paedophiles ends up either with cancer, stroke, or simply a bullet in the head, such as the poor woman called Jill Dando! Funny enough, Jill Dando's fiance was promoted to be the gynaecologist for the royal family!
He was my fave radio dj when I was a kid. I was approached by paedos a couple times and had a highly developed radar for that sort of thing, yet strangely never suspected Savile was creepy.
@@MBM1117727 Trust me, Jimmy Savile was never popular. The BBC gave him popular, prime time TV shows to front like 'Top of the Pops' and 'Jim'll Fix It', great formats produced to the highest standard. Those shows were absolute gifts for a predatory pervert to enjoy power over others, and access victims. But the man himself was beloved by precisely NO ONE. The Savile scandal is the story of a highly dangerous psychopath and malignant narcissist at the extreme end of the scale, able to exploit and dominate people to commit heinous crimes against at least hundreds possibly thousands of victims, unpunished (though not undetected) for 60 years. I was a TV producer/celebrity booker for 20 years, from 1990-2000 and was never once asked by any TV show I worked on (chat shows, entertainment shows, reality shows etc for every broadcaster and umpteen independent production companies), to book Savile. Why not? Because it was an open secret in TV he was not only a rapist and child molester, but a necrophile. If I, who had never worked with Savile, had heard he had a key to the morgue at the hospital/psychiatric facilities he ran to enjoy sex with corpses, you can be sure MANY people knew. It maybe wasn't common knowledge among the general public, because Savile's victims were the most vulnerable and least able to report him, and he was protected by powerful people at the top level. But as this TV comedy sketch proves, the public perception of Jimmy Savile was entirely negative. Had he been 'popular' as you suggest, the punchline to this sketch would not have worked.
@@glamdolly30 I'm not doubting his crimes weren't known among the entertainment industry or that there weren't a lot of people in the public who hated him. But I lot of the public loved him at the time too.
On the world service this morning they did an interview with a former radio Caroline DJ, they failed to mention Jimmie's involvement with radio Caroline which lead to his employment at the BBC. I wonder if any girls bodies ever got tossed from that ship as so many of the people that worked as DJs went on to serve jail time
Error: JS's "involvement" was with Radio LUXEMBOURG (not Caroline). I highly doubt that Caroline's founding-manager, Ronan O'Rahilly (since deceased) would have had any time for someone of his character and presentation style in any case. Caroline was at that time the epitome of anti-establishment. Luxembourg was instead corporate and locked in with the major record companies of the time - which wouldn't play Ronan's bands etc. - prompting him to start his own independent radio station - at sea, beyond the (then) UK law (since changed).
He always came across as a creep on TV I remember he assaulted a girl on top of the pops he clearly touched her somewhere forbidden she jumped and looked at him he was so used to getting away with it he did it in front of the camera
