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Robert Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Appearances Over Time

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Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

It's a very, like, 20s, 30s thing.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

The sick kids get free milk and malt.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

This is also something he writes and talks about constantly because it reinforces his underdog narrative.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Agnes drove the family and they were Agnes is like the wearing the pants in the household.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Right.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

His dad is a very retiring and kind of shy figure.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

He's going to die much earlier than Agnes.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And she is she's the force to be reckoned with.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

They are extremely Catholic.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Jimmy Savile is raised Catholic and is a hardcore Catholic his entire life.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

They almost never miss mass.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And she makes sure that even with the family budget as tight as it was, they always have money to put in the collection plate for arguably the wealthiest institution in human history at the time.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Yeah, the Catholic Church couldn't have gone by without that tuppence that you dust in there.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

They wouldn't have been able to afford to move all those priests who were molesting kids to different places so they could molest more kids.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Of his mom's faith, Savile said, she was an old-fashioned religioso.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

She went to mass because she had a guilty conscience.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Now, that's interesting to me because he'll emphasize this a lot.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Guilty over what?