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As for almost everyone who grew up in the 1970s, BBC children’s television took hold of me and never quite let go. For hours every week, I lived in a safe and cosy world with my friends, Lesley Judd and John Craven, Peter Purves, Noel Edmonds – and Jimmy Savile. The horror of this scandal is not only what Savile did to dozens, or hundreds, of trusting children. In a much smaller way, he – and the people who let him do it – have violated the childhoods of millions