On Saturday May 5th 1973 the first episode of Clunk Click was transmitted on BBC1 at 6.15pm. I don't know offhand who Jimmy Savile's guests for that week were, but I do know that a lady journalist from the Radio Times, visited Jimmy in his dressing room. And - as if one Savile wasn't enough for any lady to cope with, poor Jenny Lees, got three of them.
I write this because it's a nice article and it cropped up in my Twitter account a few days ago, quite begging to be shared - so here it is.
That week in May 1973, Jimmy Savile O.B.E wasn't just on the telly - he was on the radio too. He may even have hosted that week's Top Of The Pops, I haven't checked. It seemed like he was everywhere, one simply couldn't escape him.
Anyway, I hope this gives someone a lift as there's not much to smile about at the moment. And in that gloomiest of glooms - that den of inequity known as our parliament, another awful man has just been elected to the highest office. October/November 2011 seemed a nicer place somehow, even in that den, some 26 nice people did something nice for someone else.
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/43425/sir-jimmy-savile-obe
It's a shame Mr Corbyn never got a chance to lead us. Good people always seem to be punished. I wonder why ?
