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Topic History of: Immoral Beeb R.4Skin 'Moral Maze'
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HaventAClue |
Sweet Angel.
Wethinks that bent-media doth protest too much, 365-24/7 for BIG Bucks !
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Angel |
Hedda wrote:
I think it's time to dig up Oscar Wilde and put him on trial all over again.
afterall, he wrote books for kiddies as well.
And there was something suspect about my favourite when young, The Famous Five. Always trying to get those kids onto a secret island or something with some very dodgy old geezer..someone's uncle.
And one of them always managed to have an old chocolate bar in their pocket !!..sweets for the kiddies.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. |
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Hedda |
I think it's time to dig up Oscar Wilde and put him on trial all over again.
afterall, he wrote books for kiddies as well.
And there was something suspect about my favourite when young, The Famous Five. Always trying to get those kids onto a secret island or something with some very dodgy old geezer..someone's uncle.
And one of them always managed to have an old chocolate bar in their pocket !!..sweets for the kiddies. |
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FullFacts/WholeTruth |
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nbq68
Listen Again
Latest 'Hysterical-Revision'  17/10/2012
Still NOT ONE WORD about MILLIONS of NON-VICTIM aMused Adultophiles
Has Jimmy Savile's charity work been morally contaminated by revelations of child abuse?
Chaired by Michael Buerk with Kenan Malik, Giles Fraser, Melanie Phillips and Claire Fox.
The sculptor Eric Gill, who created the statute of Ariel and Prospero over the entrance to BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place London, sexually abused his own children, and had sex ith his sister and ith hs dog. But should that concern the worshippers at Westminster Cathedral who pray in front of his sculptures for the Stations of the Cross? The legacy of Good versus Evil on the Moral Maze.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill
His personal diaries describe his sexual activity in great detail including the fact that Gill sexually abused his own children, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and performed sexual acts on his dog. This aspect of Gill's life was little known until publication of the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy. The earlier biography by Robert Speaight mentioned none of it.
It's an interesting exercise looking back at the obituaries of Jimmy Savile. You'd never describe them as warm. Even before the child abuse revelations Savile was the kind of personality who divided opinions. But the one thing that unites the obit's is the fact that here was a man who did a vast amount of good work for charity. Savile came from an impoverished background, survived a potentially fatal accident working in the mines during the war and went on to personally raise an estimated £40 million for various charitable causes - giving away 90% of his income, including £12 million to help rebuild the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Along the way he turned "Jim'll Fix It" in to a national institution - attracting over 3 million requests in the 19 years it was on TV and fulfilling the dreams of thousands of those who appeared on it. How should we view those good works now? Have they been fatally morally contaminated by his crimes?
His charity, The Savile Foundation, is now considering changing its name and even where it spends Savile's legacy with the possibility of money going to groups helping the victims of sexual abuse. Is it possible to draw a clear line between the sin and the sinner, especially in the current climate of heightened moral anxiety that has resulted in Jimmy Savile's headstone being removed and ground-up for landfill and talk of his body being dug up for cremation so his ashes can be scattered to oblivion? Can we ever imagine a time when we look back and say "Jimmy Savile wasn't all bad?" And if good works can be morally transformed by the evil that motivated them, what about works of art? There are plenty of artists with morally reprehensible private lives whose work we still value.
Witnesses: Jo Summers -PWT Advice LLP, Alec Shelbrooke - MP for Elmet & Rothwell, Dr Constantine Sandis - Reader in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, Antoinette Fox - Assistant Principal at a Comprehensive School in Cambridgeshire. |
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