Unappealing

19 days to go to the BBC's Annual Children In Need day. It tends to help children now, not people who  suffered when they were children - so Jimmy Savile didn't necessarily add to its current case load. But CiN started in 1980, and  a former BBC Governor, Sir Roger Jones, has indicated sharper antenna inside Children In Need, who positively warded off the tireless charity worker.

"I think we all recognised he was a pretty creepy sort of character. When I was with Children in Need we took the decision that we didn't want him anywhere near the charity and we just stepped up our child protection policies which again would have put him at risk if he tried anything.

"So the way that we dealt with it was by stepping up our child protection policies.If you're going to go on the attack and make claims against him then you'd need evidence, hard evidence that simply wasn't there. But if you're protecting yourself you can do that without evidence."