Marcus Parks

And Margaret Jones either wasn't paying attention or she was too dazzled by Jimmy's celebrity status to care about what he was doing.

See, the girls at Duncroft were basically controlled by cigarettes and records.

Which doesn't sound like it would work, but I will admit that at certain times in my life, the only things that mattered to me in this entire world were cigarettes and records.

And I would have done almost anything to get more of both.

Now it's nicotine gum and records.

Well, I'm on the patch now.

He's got three patches on.

I've been on Nicorette.

It's only been like six years.

That's all.

He's not addicted to that.

They use the addiction to control these girls.

It's using addiction and joy.

As far as how the girls at Duncroft were controlled by these twin sirens of cigarettes and records, their days revolved around cleaning the facility and working in the kitchen.

And if they were well-behaved and did all their assignments, they got 40 cigarettes a week that they could smoke in the commons room while listening to records.

That's fun.

But if the girls were ill-tempered or didn't do their work...

Their cigarettes were taken away and they would be sentenced to solitary confinement in a silent padded room for an indeterminate amount of time.

Yeah.

When Jimmy Savile showed up at Duncroft in 1974, he immediately saw how to take advantage of this situation.