Jimmy Savile Scandal Deepens, Threatening Reputation of BBC
The investigation into pedophilia charges against a former BBC host Jimmy Savile continues to widen.
Christina Patterson is a columnist at the British newspaper The Independent.
She tells host Marco Werman about new email evidence alleging the BBC shelved a documentary exposing Savile’s pedophilia because the victims involved were “teenagers, not too young.”
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