A former BBC and Children In Need Governor from the late 1990s took the decision to ban Jimmy Savile from further appearances on the appeal’s main show around the time that his biggest show, Jim’ll Fix It, was nearing its conclusion. The BBC has the story with video clips here.
Linking in with my review of Robbie Garner’s Book Nobody Came, The Guardian has published a feature in its Weekend magazine section two years on from the start of the enquiry and thus updating anything you might have read in the Daily Mail’s story trail from the same post. You can view it below; Jersey…
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
CNN broke a story today about a doctor arrested for abusing 102 girls and a boy on his patient lists. The video report is here and being a new story, we’re not sure how much of it will remain online so catch it quickly. It’s more shocking that one single disclosure after a decade was…
Today marks one day to go before the BBC’s annual Children In Need Appeal, from 7pm to 2am across the BBC on 19th November. The appeal is 30 years old in its modern telethon format but has roots dating back to Christmas Day 1927 on BBC Radio before going to Black and White television in…
