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Robert Evans

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

And he does this a lot.

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

He writes and talks about the war years often and about his cognition of what's happening as if he was a small boy then.

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

And he's not.

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

He's a late teen, like young adult while the war is going on.

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

So that part's really weird to me.

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

I don't know what to say about it other than he does that.

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

And it's kind of strange that he does that to me.

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

In March of 1941, he and his mom have to run for cover during an air raid.

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

A cop near them was killed by the bomb.

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

And after the raid, Jimmy claims that he picked up a black glove with a hand still inside it.

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

In Davey's book, In Plain Sight, he writes, it is a morbid detail and one that Saville savored.

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

He's going to tell this story a lot with a degree of relish, like he's excited to

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

And you get the feeling that he's excited at the time.

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

Again, this is all going to be important much later on.

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

Yeah.

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

He's not well.

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

That's not a healthy reaction.

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

From age 15 to 16, he just keeps working at the Mecca and taking on odd jobs, mainly to provide his mom with money for food, both of which earn him praise, right?

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

The fact that he's making money and the fact that he's like an entertainer, he gets a lot of praise early on from this.

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

He also starts training with the Army Air Corps because he's expecting, he's gotta be like 18 when the war ends, he's expecting to be called up to the RAF in another year or two when he's like 16 or 17.