It took the sublime Sandi Toksvig on The News Quiz, ironically a BBC Radio 4 production, to give some background to Roger Gale`s comments. Sir Roger, a former pirate radio DJ, was appointed Director of BBC Children`s Television in 1976 just as the second series of Jim`ll Fix It went to air. The soon to be ex Director General George Entwistle that Gale seeks to blame was 14 years old at the time. That is just about the same age as the victims.
The sound you hear is not just the closing of establishment ranks but the slamming of cupboard doors that the light of truth will almost certainly never penetrate. There is something very, very wrong in all of this and with the stakes being so high we are unlikely to know the full story.
