0:00:02 > 0:00:05Ahead of two major inquiries into Jimmy Savile's abuse,
0:00:05 > 0:00:07Panorama reveals the extent
0:00:07 > 0:00:10of the BBC star's links to the British Establishment.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13He'd swan in, a bit like a prince himself,
0:00:13 > 0:00:15and do the sort of...the royal wave.
0:00:15 > 0:00:16Prince to Prime Minister,
0:00:16 > 0:00:21he exploited friendships in high places to give himself cover.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Thank you for everything you do for every good cause.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25If he duped a whole lot of people,
0:00:25 > 0:00:28OK, you can add Margaret to the list of people who got duped.
0:00:28 > 0:00:34Rare footage shows Savile was even calling the shots at Broadmoor.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37So, there's many people say, "How come a showbiz punter
0:00:37 > 0:00:42"is doing a job like this at the world's number-one mental hospital?"
0:00:42 > 0:00:47And confidential documents reveal just how he abused his power there.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48That sounds like blackmail.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50That sounds like blackmail to me as well.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53With new allegations of abuse at Broadmoor,
0:00:53 > 0:00:58how were so many clues missed at some of Britain's best-known institutions?
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Even the bosses would laugh.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02We all knew. We knew!
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Now, fresh evidence suggests the BBC failed to act
0:01:06 > 0:01:09on advice that might have stopped some of Savile's abuse.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12They went there for the experience of their lives,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15and they came away scarred for life.
0:01:15 > 0:01:21Tonight: How Jimmy Savile had the power to abuse for so long.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Yes, indeedy! Yes, indeedy.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35It's been 18 months since Jimmy Savile was first unmasked
0:01:35 > 0:01:37as a predatory paedophile.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39He's not what you think, you know?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42And still the question remains - how was he able to use some
0:01:42 > 0:01:47of Britain's biggest institutions as cover for his child abuse?
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Whether they were in a children's home,
0:01:49 > 0:01:53whether they were in a hospital or whether they were going to the BBC,
0:01:53 > 0:01:58they all deserved protection from the organisation that they were at,
0:01:58 > 0:01:59and they didn't get it.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06The institution that earned Savile the trust of the nation was the BBC.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10And the celebrity status nurtured there helped him open doors
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and escape justice his whole life.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20How important were the celebrities?
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Oh, they were the bee's knees. I mean, that's why you were there,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27it was... Everything was about the star of the show.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Marion Horton-Smith was a receptionist
0:02:30 > 0:02:33at the BBC's Lime Grove studios in the early '70s.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34They were different times,
0:02:34 > 0:02:39and she says some stars behaved as they pleased.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41When you're young and a bit naive
0:02:41 > 0:02:47and somebody famous says something possibly near the edge...
0:02:47 > 0:02:49You laughed it off, because that was...
0:02:49 > 0:02:54In a way, you found it flattering, whether that's wrong or right.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00One night at reception, Marion plucked up the courage
0:03:00 > 0:03:03to ask Jimmy Savile for a request on his radio show.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07He invited her outside to his caravan to record it.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13I got up to go and he said, "Does it deserve a kiss, then?"
0:03:13 > 0:03:16And I went to give him a kiss on the cheek
0:03:16 > 0:03:20and suddenly I was pushed back on the bed,
0:03:20 > 0:03:25and he was on top of me and from somewhere he put a light out.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27He was very strong.
0:03:27 > 0:03:33I mean, he pinned me down, but he was slobbering up and down my neck.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37The attack was interrupted by a knock at the door.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40It was another BBC employee bringing a teenage girl to see Savile.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45My goodness, if we hadn't been disturbed...
0:03:45 > 0:03:47I mean, there's no way if he had taken things further
0:03:47 > 0:03:49I would have fought him. No way.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Marion blamed herself,
0:03:50 > 0:03:54and has never talked publicly about what happened until now.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57If you'd told somebody, they'd have probably just told you to just,
0:03:57 > 0:04:01"Keep quiet, dear." You know, that's what happens in television.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04It happened as Jimmy Savile was becoming
0:04:04 > 0:04:07one of the BBC's biggest stars.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11By 1975, when Jim'll Fix It starts and starts getting ratings
0:04:11 > 0:04:14that, on occasions are even outstripping Coronation Street,
0:04:14 > 0:04:18suddenly there's this sort of golden-goose aura
0:04:18 > 0:04:19that develops around him.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26We now know this was the peak of Savile's offending.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31There have been dozens of reports of abuse by him on BBC premises.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34This woman was 14 when she met Savile
0:04:34 > 0:04:36following a BBC talent audition.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38She doesn't want to be identified.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41She's never spoken publicly about how he groomed her
0:04:41 > 0:04:44in his Top Of The Pops dressing room.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49He would speak to you and put his arm around you
0:04:49 > 0:04:53and give you a cuddle, and then he would say, "Come and sit on my lap."
0:04:54 > 0:04:56And you would sit on his lap and...
0:04:56 > 0:04:58And he had an erection.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03It was vile.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06You feel disgusted with yourself.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09How would he get you to keep coming back?
0:05:09 > 0:05:13Every time he did a bad thing, he would do a good thing.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15You know - "I promise I'm going to get you an agent,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19"and they're going to get you paying gigs."
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Boo! Very nervous, she is, when I go "Boo".
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Around the time Savile began grooming the girl,
0:05:24 > 0:05:27the BBC had to investigate allegations
0:05:27 > 0:05:29of a sex scandal on its premises.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33The author of an internal inquiry in 1972 raised concerns
0:05:33 > 0:05:37about the supervision of young people at Television Centre.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Sir Brian Neill found that there was uncertainty
0:05:39 > 0:05:41about who was ultimately responsible
0:05:41 > 0:05:44for all the teenage girls coming to see Top Of The Pops.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48And his recommendation was that there should be clear guidance
0:05:48 > 0:05:51as to who's to be ultimately responsible
0:05:51 > 0:05:53for the behaviour and control of these audiences.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57But how seriously was that advice taken?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00We've seen a memo written in August 1972
0:06:00 > 0:06:05by the BBC's Controller of Television Administration, who said...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12But for three years after that,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15this woman went unchaperoned to Savile's dressing room,
0:06:15 > 0:06:19where she says she was molested many times.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22I don't remember there being any supervision at all.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25So when you went to Jimmy Savile's dressing room,
0:06:25 > 0:06:27was there another adult accompanying you?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30No, only Jimmy himself.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33He would always just say, "When the show's over,
0:06:33 > 0:06:36"just wait over there by that door there on the set,
0:06:36 > 0:06:37"and I'll come and get you."
0:06:39 > 0:06:42We've been told Savile abused at least five young people
0:06:42 > 0:06:44in BBC dressing rooms
0:06:44 > 0:06:48after the advice to improve supervision of audiences.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Here we have youngsters who were visiting the BBC
0:06:53 > 0:06:56for maybe one day, going to a recording of Top Of The Pops
0:06:56 > 0:07:00or appearing on Jim'll Fix It - they were absolutely starstruck.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05They wouldn't have known anyone at the BBC to report it to.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07They went there for the experience of their lives
0:07:07 > 0:07:10and they came away scarred for life.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15The BBC says it's...
0:07:15 > 0:07:18It's unable to give a commentary on 40-year-old documents,
0:07:18 > 0:07:23but is fully co-operating with the ongoing inquiry into the BBC.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Does anybody fancy riding a thousand miles with me?
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Savile's offending went far beyond the BBC.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34New research for Panorama by children's charity the NSPCC
0:07:34 > 0:07:38shows it also happened in hospitals and children's homes.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43There have now been 500 reports of his abuse, across six decades.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47The most common age group for victims was 13 to 15,
0:07:47 > 0:07:49the youngest alleged victim was two.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54There's no doubt that Savile is one of the most, if not THE most,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58prolific sex offender that we at the NSPCC have ever come across.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02What you have is somebody who, at his most prolific,
0:08:02 > 0:08:07lost no opportunity to identify vulnerable victims and abuse them.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Jimmy Savile's fame gave him
0:08:10 > 0:08:14extraordinary access to many well-known institutions.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Nowhere more surprising than here,
0:08:16 > 0:08:20at Britain's top-security psychiatric hospital, Broadmoor.
0:08:22 > 0:08:28This film was shot at the hospital by the BBC 25 years ago.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30It's never been shown since.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34To get access to film, the BBC had to negotiate with its own star,
0:08:34 > 0:08:37who had, incredibly, just been given a top job
0:08:37 > 0:08:39at Broadmoor by the Government.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43So, there's many people say, "How come a showbiz punter
0:08:43 > 0:08:48"is doing a job like this at the world's number-one mental hospital?"
0:08:48 > 0:08:52And what they don't know is that I've been here 20 years already.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55The footage reveals that Savile certainly considered himself
0:08:55 > 0:08:57in charge at Broadmoor.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59If you want to win any popularity awards,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01you don't take the job as the boss here.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06So, how had the BBC entertainer
0:09:06 > 0:09:09become so embedded with the British Establishment
0:09:09 > 0:09:11that for a few months he was entrusted
0:09:11 > 0:09:14with a senior role at a high-security hospital?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17The story starts in the late '60s,
0:09:17 > 0:09:21when Savile was invited into Broadmoor by a hospital charity
0:09:21 > 0:09:25to organise entertainment for staff and patients.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Savile got his own set of keys, and even had a house on the grounds.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36In 1971, he was able to bring the girl from the BBC audition
0:09:36 > 0:09:39into the hospital to sing for patients.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41It's where he first molested her.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45What do you think of the fact that Jimmy Savile was allowed
0:09:45 > 0:09:47to bring a 14-year-old into Broadmoor?
0:09:47 > 0:09:49I think really it was awful.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55The authorities should have said, "No, she's only 14.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58"She's too young to come in here and see this place."
0:10:00 > 0:10:03It was the scariest experience, I think, of my life.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Broadmoor had a violent reputation.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Chandra Ghosh worked there in the late '80s.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Back then, it was notorious for treating
0:10:14 > 0:10:17its mentally ill patients like prisoners.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20It felt like the Government's asylum. It literally did.
0:10:20 > 0:10:25You had women with long, blonde hair covering their faces
0:10:25 > 0:10:26sitting there rocking...
0:10:26 > 0:10:30The wards were Victorian, very old.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32It was a very dark place.
0:10:33 > 0:10:38By the late '80s, Broadmoor was a hospital in crisis.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40So the Government set up a task force,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43and at its head they put the TV celebrity
0:10:43 > 0:10:46with a reputation for sorting things out.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51The staff felt as though they had a DJ that was telling them what to do.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55Keith Palmer and Neville Sandiford were nurses at Broadmoor at the time.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59They could barely believe the role the Government had given him.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Savile was actually in charge of the hospital?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03In charge of Broadmoor - lock, stock and barrel.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Morning. How are you?
0:11:05 > 0:11:08And the charges and the doctors were dead against it.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12But Jimmy Savile was Jimmy Savile.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13He could do anything.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Whoever gave him that permission, with the keys
0:11:16 > 0:11:20and then the task force, had to be a lunatic.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22They had plenty of people to choose from.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25The man was only a celebrity.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Now, this is where money is thrown away in building.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31There was a £17 million bill to start with,
0:11:31 > 0:11:34we spent £32 million on top of that...
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Peter Jeffreys was a regular inspector of Broadmoor
0:11:38 > 0:11:43in that period. He was concerned about the way patients were treated.
0:11:43 > 0:11:49At the time I thought, "How on earth can Jimmy Savile sort out
0:11:49 > 0:11:52"the serious accountability and management problems at Broadmoor?"
0:11:52 > 0:11:57My understanding was he was allowed a free pass to go in and go out
0:11:57 > 0:12:00whenever he wanted, to see individual patients of his choosing
0:12:00 > 0:12:03when he wished to... That is quite extraordinary.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Edwina Currie was Health Minister and briefly responsible for Broadmoor
0:12:08 > 0:12:10when Savile was appointed to the task force.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12She says there was no reason then
0:12:12 > 0:12:16to think his access to the hospital was odd.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19My feeling is that it's not shocking that he had keys
0:12:19 > 0:12:23or that he had access and was in and out on a regular basis.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Really?
0:12:24 > 0:12:29Because he proved himself to be very useful at Broadmoor,
0:12:29 > 0:12:35in the sense that when we asked his help in trying to improve matters,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39he went above and beyond what anyone had suggested he might do.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Have you got everything that you need here?
0:12:41 > 0:12:45We've obtained confidential Government documents from the time,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48that suggest Savile's appointment to the task force
0:12:48 > 0:12:51was pushed by a senior civil servant.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54They also reveal that officials seemed starstruck
0:12:54 > 0:12:56by the BBC celebrity.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01This is a confidential memo for the personal attention of Mrs Currie
0:13:01 > 0:13:03from a senior civil servant.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07And throughout the document, it refers to "Dr Savile".
0:13:07 > 0:13:09The document says that, "Dr Savile
0:13:09 > 0:13:14"is going through each of the main departments like a dose of salts."
0:13:14 > 0:13:16And it even lists ten points
0:13:16 > 0:13:20that Dr Savile would like to see for further action at Broadmoor.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Jimmy Savile was no medical doctor.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27He had an honorary doctorate in law.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30We showed the documents to the former nurses.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Well, it says here, "Dr Savile promised he could improve Broadmoor
0:13:34 > 0:13:38"beyond recognition within eight weeks, if he got the go-ahead."
0:13:38 > 0:13:39What do you think of that?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- Did you just say, "Dr Savile"? - THEY LAUGH
0:13:41 > 0:13:44That's what it says. That's what they're calling him.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Does that surprise you, that the Department of Health
0:13:46 > 0:13:48- would call him "Dr Savile"? - Yes. Yes.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Well, that is awful.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54It makes him out to be a doctor, in psychiatry.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Nurses in Broadmoor were at the time represented
0:13:59 > 0:14:02by the Prison Officers' Association.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05You look to me like a prison officer rather than a nurse.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Yes, it was basically a prison. We're jailers.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14The Government wanted Broadmoor run more like a hospital.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19When Savile took over, the union had just voted for an overtime ban.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23And here, the story gets even stranger.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27The confidential memos reveal that Savile told another civil servant
0:14:27 > 0:14:33he could deal with the unions, and quickly transform Broadmoor.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36The civil servant offers her own view of Jimmy Savile.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38She says, "I doubt he'll let anyone stand in his way,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41"and he clearly doesn't mind how many people get trampled
0:14:41 > 0:14:43"underfoot in the process."
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Savile told the Health Minister his unorthodox plans
0:14:47 > 0:14:49to break the overtime ban.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53He said he'd discovered some nurses were sub-letting staff houses
0:14:53 > 0:14:55and fiddling their overtime claims.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58He made it quite clear, he told me,
0:14:58 > 0:15:02that he would use that against the staff if they misbehaved
0:15:02 > 0:15:04and didn't call off the overtime ban.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08- That sounds like blackmail.- That sounds like blackmail to me as well.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11And if it sounded like blackmail to you at the time
0:15:11 > 0:15:13did you not think to say, "Hang on a minute,
0:15:13 > 0:15:18"you can't run a top-security psychiatric hospital like that"?
0:15:18 > 0:15:22I made a note of it at the time, because I was so surprised.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26It was the 1980s. Some unions were at war
0:15:26 > 0:15:28with the Conservative Government.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Back then, it seems, the DJ's plan wasn't so strange.
0:15:33 > 0:15:39If this meant that we broke the strike and could help the patients,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42then we had an issue of ends justifying means.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Within a month of Savile at the helm,
0:15:47 > 0:15:49the overtime ban was called off.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53The documents reveal just how influential he was at Broadmoor.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57He drew up a list of dismissible offences for staff,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00and was even given a say in hiring and firing.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04The memo talks about the need to appoint
0:16:04 > 0:16:06a new general manager to Broadmoor.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08And it says, "Dr Savile may wish to press
0:16:08 > 0:16:11"for Mr Franey in this position."
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Alan Franey was an administrator at Leeds General Infirmary,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17where Savile volunteered as a porter.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20They became lifelong friends.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Soon after the memo was written,
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Alan Franey was appointed General Manager of Broadmoor.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30We are a special hospital, very special, providing
0:16:30 > 0:16:35a very special service to some of society's most disordered offenders.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Alan Franey didn't want to be interviewed, but told us
0:16:39 > 0:16:43he was first seconded to Broadmoor by his employer,
0:16:43 > 0:16:47then applied in an open competition for the role of General Manager.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Whether through blackmail or charitable works,
0:16:52 > 0:16:55the manipulative celebrity had a habit of getting his own way.
0:16:55 > 0:17:00He let slip to Trevor Smith that he had his sights set on one thing.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03I ask him,
0:17:03 > 0:17:08"Why do you want to be in a place like this, with all your money?"
0:17:08 > 0:17:11And his words to me, and I quote -
0:17:11 > 0:17:14"When I obtain a knighthood, I will then stop."
0:17:14 > 0:17:20"Because", he said, "I want a pit boy - which I was -
0:17:20 > 0:17:24"to end up with a knighthood." He said, "Look how that would look."
0:17:24 > 0:17:27And I've been friends with the last four, five Prime Ministers,
0:17:27 > 0:17:34and I think they like a change from 365 days' total politics.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36In his quest for a knighthood,
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Savile made lots of friends in high places.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42The former pit boy lunched with Margaret Thatcher at Number 10,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44and took tea at Chequers.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- (You can knock on the door.) - KNOCKING
0:17:47 > 0:17:51This is their first TV encounter - Jim'll Fix It in 1977.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Hello, welcome.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55I thought you were going to fix my getting into Number 10?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59I've already done so. But I wanted to see you privately about that.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02The relationship began because of advice from political advisors.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06"You've got to reach out to ordinary people,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09"to people who watch Jim'll Fix It and Coronation Street."
0:18:09 > 0:18:13For Savile, the friendship was yet another cloak to hide behind.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17Can I just point something out to you? Do you see what this says?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Hello, my dear Jimmy...
0:18:19 > 0:18:23'He used to boast, didn't he, that he had connections in Number 10.'
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- He said that to staff here?- Yeah.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Yes, "I'm well-known at Number 10," and this sort of thing.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32He would go over for tea with Margaret.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Savile bragged he'd spent 11 Christmases with Margaret Thatcher.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38That's disputed by her close friend.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Well, if he did, he must have been hiding in a cupboard,
0:18:42 > 0:18:45because I spent every Christmas Day at Chequers when Margaret
0:18:45 > 0:18:48was Prime Minister and I never saw him there once.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53From early on, power mattered to Savile.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Dan Davies interviewed him in his later years.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Savile told him about befriending powerful people back in Leeds.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04I think it was insurance, really, for himself.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07He had a reputation in the dance hall days for being
0:19:07 > 0:19:11somebody who was heavy-handed and dealt with troublemakers,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14you know, in a fairly physical fashion.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20In 1983, Savile told The Sun about his violent past
0:19:20 > 0:19:22and sexual exploits.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Honours Committee papers from the time show the expose nearly
0:19:26 > 0:19:29scuppered his chances of a knighthood.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41But the Prime Minister, impressed by the millions he'd
0:19:41 > 0:19:45raised for Stoke Mandeville Hospital, kept putting his name forward.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46That's lovely, Jim.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49And can I thank you for everything you do for every good cause?
0:19:49 > 0:19:53In 1990, Savile finally got his wish and became "Sir Jimmy".
0:19:53 > 0:19:56It's mine, I'm telling you! It's mine! Tell them it's mine!
0:19:56 > 0:19:59If he duped a whole lot of people,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01OK, you can add Margaret to the list of people who got duped.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Savile's connections went to the very top
0:20:05 > 0:20:06of the British Establishment.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09For a time in the '80s, through charity work,
0:20:09 > 0:20:11he became friendly with Prince Charles.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13He'd swan in, a bit like a prince himself,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and do the sort of...the royal wave.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20And then sort of make his way up to the office without any
0:20:20 > 0:20:24accompaniment by a member of the household, and then disappear again.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27When Charles and Diana's marriage was in crisis,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30the BBC star even offered to help.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33I think the general belief was that because he was a celebrity,
0:20:33 > 0:20:38because everybody sort of thought that he was the bee's knees,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41that he could do something to sort out the marriage
0:20:41 > 0:20:44between the Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales,
0:20:44 > 0:20:45a sort of Jim'll Fix It type of thing.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47But there's no way it could have happened
0:20:47 > 0:20:51because Diana wouldn't have had anything to do with him.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54A spokesman for Prince Charles said...
0:20:59 > 0:21:03On the few occasions Jimmy Savile visited St James's Palace...
0:21:09 > 0:21:12We've been told the Prince called a meeting at his home
0:21:12 > 0:21:15in Highgrove in the late '80s, about the closure
0:21:15 > 0:21:19of emergency services at his local hospital at Tetbury.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Senior health officials were apparently gobsmacked
0:21:22 > 0:21:24to find Jimmy Savile there.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28In private, the DJ resorted to bully-boy tactics.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32A manager with the Health Authority at the time told us
0:21:32 > 0:21:35he understood that after Charles left,
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Savile said the Prince wasn't happy, and even suggested
0:21:39 > 0:21:41the Chairman wouldn't get a knighthood
0:21:41 > 0:21:45if the downgrading of services at the hospital went ahead.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47The Prince's spokesman said...
0:21:52 > 0:21:54..after the Prince left the room.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04And there's nothing like the kiss of life from a real lady
0:22:04 > 0:22:07for to make you feel better again. Mwah!
0:22:07 > 0:22:09And one from a young lady.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12At St James's Palace, Savile's trademark greeting to women
0:22:12 > 0:22:17raised eyebrows. But, even here, nothing was done about it.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21He'd walk in and sort of go up to each one of the female employees
0:22:21 > 0:22:24and take their hand. His bottom lip would curl out
0:22:24 > 0:22:26and he'd run his bottom lip up their arm.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29They sort of giggled at it, not wanting to complain about it.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31When I do that, ladies and gentlemen,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33I can clock the diamonds at the same time.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37- Did anyone object?- They didn't show any signs of objecting.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38I suppose the feeling was that
0:22:38 > 0:22:41if anybody complained, it would get back to the Prince of Wales.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44I remember saying to him that I thought he was a dirty old man.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47And he looked at me and said, "Not so much of the old."
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Oh! As it happens!
0:22:49 > 0:22:51The Prince's spokesman said...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03At the Department of Health, one official put in writing
0:23:03 > 0:23:06her own personal experience of Jimmy Savile in a memo.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11The female civil servant signs off at the end,
0:23:11 > 0:23:13"You might have warned me of his penchant
0:23:13 > 0:23:16"for kissing ladies full on the mouth."
0:23:16 > 0:23:20And, at Broadmoor, staff saw for themselves the way Savile
0:23:20 > 0:23:23behaved with young girls. But again, nothing was done.
0:23:23 > 0:23:29At a hospital charity day, he was exchanging autographs for kisses.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34He kissed these girls, who were about 13,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36smack-bang on the lips,
0:23:36 > 0:23:39held his hand behind their neck to pull them forward.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41And he virtually was giving them French kisses.
0:23:41 > 0:23:47Now, the girl who I saw the most passionate kiss, was my niece.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50- Did you say anything to him about it?- No, I walked off,
0:23:50 > 0:23:54because, you know, the girls were queuing up for him.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Even the bosses would laugh.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59We all knew. We knew!
0:24:01 > 0:24:05We've discovered serious allegations about Savile's behaviour
0:24:05 > 0:24:06with patients at Broadmoor.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11It suggests that Savile used his access at Broadmoor
0:24:11 > 0:24:14to sexually abuse damaged and vulnerable women.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17And some of them did try to complain at the time.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21When Naomi Stanley was a nurse at a psychiatric hospital
0:24:21 > 0:24:26in Cambridge, a woman was transferred there from Broadmoor.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28The patient said that she and others
0:24:28 > 0:24:31had been sexually assaulted by Savile.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33I believed her absolutely.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37The way she looked, everything about the way she came across,
0:24:37 > 0:24:43she was traumatised, she was angry, she was incredibly upset.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Naomi says she told a manager
0:24:46 > 0:24:50and two local police officers during a routine meeting at the hospital.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55The nursing officer became quite angry with me,
0:24:55 > 0:24:59and took me out of the room, gave me a verbal warning and said
0:24:59 > 0:25:05I would probably be sacked if I ever said anything like that again.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Trust said
0:25:09 > 0:25:12it couldn't comment because...
0:25:14 > 0:25:19Cambridgeshire Police said they've found nothing on record about it.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23We've been told by a former patient that other complaints
0:25:23 > 0:25:27were made about Savile from inside Broadmoor 20 years ago.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31A member of the Patients' Council at the time has told Panorama
0:25:31 > 0:25:34that three women wrote to him in the mid-'90s
0:25:34 > 0:25:39detailing serious complaints of sexual abuse by Savile.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42He says he forwarded the complaints to Alan Franey,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44then Chief Executive of the hospital.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47But, in the end, still nothing was done.
0:25:48 > 0:25:53Alan Franey, who was recommended to Broadmoor by Savile, told Panorama...
0:26:00 > 0:26:02He said no issues about Savile were raised
0:26:02 > 0:26:04at regular staff and patient meetings.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10West London Mental Health NHS Trust, which now runs Broadmoor,
0:26:10 > 0:26:15expressed sympathy for his victims but says it can't comment
0:26:15 > 0:26:19while its joint investigation with the Department of Health is ongoing.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28We've learned that the police have now received
0:26:28 > 0:26:31at least 16 reports of abuse at Broadmoor.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Chandra Ghosh understands why few patients
0:26:34 > 0:26:36complained during Savile's lifetime.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40These were people that nobody believed.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43So if they had in fact turned round and said that he had abused them
0:26:43 > 0:26:48or raped them, nobody would have believed them.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52You know, this was Mr Savile, you know, Jim'll Fix It.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57Edwina Currie was responsible for Broadmoor for just four months.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02She approved the decision to make Savile head of the task force.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Do you have any regrets about
0:27:04 > 0:27:09playing a role in increasing his influence at Broadmoor?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11It's a source of huge regret -
0:27:11 > 0:27:15to me, to everybody that was ever involved with Savile.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17During the time that I was responsible
0:27:17 > 0:27:21we did not have a single complaint.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Had we known, we'd have stopped him,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25and it would have been very easy to stop him.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28I'd have just said to him, "Jimmy - the keys."
0:27:28 > 0:27:31That decision for him to lead the task force
0:27:31 > 0:27:34was not just a wrong decision, it was a bad decision
0:27:34 > 0:27:38and a dangerous decision, because it gave authority
0:27:38 > 0:27:42to a man who not only wasn't competent, but also was dangerous,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44and manipulative and abusive.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48The Department of Health
0:27:48 > 0:27:51and the BBC will soon publish the results of their inquiries.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55The hope is they'll shed more light on how Savile fooled
0:27:55 > 0:27:57so many at the highest level.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01A lot of people who I have the highest regard for
0:28:01 > 0:28:04spoke highly of him at the time -
0:28:04 > 0:28:07and do I question their judgment? No, human beings make mistakes.
0:28:07 > 0:28:12There were so many mistakes, so many missed opportunities.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16I think it is a very revealing story about the nation at large
0:28:16 > 0:28:20because he cultivated this sense of oddness,
0:28:20 > 0:28:21he was proud of standing apart -
0:28:21 > 0:28:26but there was no desire or appetite for finding anything beneath that.
0:28:27 > 0:28:32Jimmy Savile hid in plain sight his whole life.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34And hundreds of victims have been denied the chance
0:28:34 > 0:28:38to see Britain's most notorious sex offender brought to justice.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44And on Wednesday at 10:35:
0:28:44 > 0:28:46In the shadow of the World Cup stadiums.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Panorama explores Brazil's dark side.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51A world of poverty, drugs,
0:28:51 > 0:28:53and children forced into prostitution.