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21.23: Ruth introduces our next two award winners, 'Fiona' and 'Sue', two brave whistleblowers who revealed the awful truth of Jimmy Savile's 'reign of terror' abusing young people...
21.24: Sue was a newsroom assistant who encountered Savile at the BBC back in 1978. She tells of walking into a room seeing a 'girl of about 14 sat on his knee'. Uncomfortable over the situation she reported it to a colleague, yet at the time it was shrugged off...
21.26: Ruth introduces our second Bravest Woman 'Fiona', who was taken for 'rides in Savile's Rolls Royce'. A film is shown of 'Fiona' talking about the incidents...
21.27: 'The very first time he abused me we were in the car park and the other girls were sat at picnic tables together and I was with him on my own in the back of the car and I knew when he asked me to stay in the car, what was expected of me. I was having a wonderful day out and i was expected to pay for it,' says 'Fiona'.
21.28: Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas takes to the stage to talk about the Savile story...
21.32: He says: 'The bravery of people like these women has enabled police to prosecute other offenders. Those women for me have made a huge difference. Thank you to Best for acknowledging these women. They are the reason we are where we are now with child abuse inquiries and convictions.'
21.34: Mark pays tribute to other women who have 'made a massive difference. We owe you an awful lot.'
21.35: Sue steps up to the stage to accept her award. She pays tribute to women like Fiona. She and Ruth walk over to Fiona's table who is so visibly upset but manages to bravely say a few words. 'We wanted people to know that he hurt us and he hurt us inside and I can't stop that hurt. But it's inspired people to come forward and speak up.'
21.38: Ruth commends Fiona on her bravery.
21.39: An unexpected speaker takes to the stage - Mr Ian Royce. He is so moved by the stories he wants to talk about his own experience of abuse. 'When you're abused you feel the pain every single day of your life...' He says he was near suicide...
21.42: 'I'm so proud to be here. [By speaking up] you saved my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you...'
Was it The Bangles who sang 'I won't be sad at all when Hero Takes A Fall'?
All this 'icing on the cake' let's-push-it silliness is exceptionally unwise - especially given that fake letter, and now David Rose, the MoS and the Edinburgh University are involved to overegg the pudding like this is wave a red rag at a raging bull.
Thank you Mark, it's going to get even more interesting from hereon.
L-R: Taban, Edwina, Vikie, Viv, Fiona, Sharon, Agnes, Sue, Gina Fiona and Sue are two of the whistleblowers who appeared in the groundbreaking 2012 ITV documentary The Other Side of Jimmy Savile
There wasn't a wheelchair in the documentary. Exposure: The other side of Jimmy Savile (32:50)
Chris Retro wrote: Was it The Bangles who sang 'I won't be sad at all when Hero Takes A Fall'?
All this 'icing on the cake' let's-push-it silliness is exceptionally unwise - especially given that fake letter, and now David Rose, the MoS and the Edinburgh University are involved to overegg the pudding like this is wave a red rag at a raging bull.
Thank you Mark, it's going to get even more interesting from hereon.
the fall is going to be a long way down.
poor man obviously hasn't a clue about the media beast he is riding.
always eats it's own.
andrew wrote: Davina winning a award for doing something she wanted to do.
Yep. Its like these sponsored whatnots that are always something fabulous that people pay a lot of money to do, like bungy jumping, hang-gliding, abseiling and mountain climbing.
You never see people sponsored to sit in a bath of sh*te for a week!
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: andrew wrote: Davina winning a award for doing something she wanted to do.
Yep. Its like these sponsored whatnots that are always something fabulous that people pay a lot of money to do, like bungy jumping, hang-gliding, abseiling and mountain climbing.
You never see people sponsored to sit in a bath of sh*te for a week!
hedda wrote: the fall is going to be a long way down.
poor man obviously hasn't a clue about the media beast he is riding. always eats it's own.
The signs certainly seem to be there. In the BBC Panorama programme on Savile, they say that he, as the expert witness, was the person responsible for evaluating the evidence. It would be all too easy for them to claim to have acted in good faith and trusted his expertise, wash their hands of any responsibility and drop him right in it.
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