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Robert Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

He really wants to like play up because it's good for his later reputation.

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

But I don't think he's playing this bit up where he's talking about this, why he did this, that he just feels a compulsion to freak people out and get a reaction.

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

Yeah.

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

As an entertainer, I get that.

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

I was that kind of kid in some ways, right?

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

Sometimes you did things just to see how people react or just because you wanted to get everyone laughing, right?

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

Right.

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

Yeah.

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

And it's interesting that he's his goal is not to make everyone laugh.

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

He wanted to freak people out.

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

Like you could see how a different person could have made this a funny bit and like brought everyone in.

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

And like this is something that could make your pals laugh and could like have an impact on them.

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

He wants to scare them kind of.

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

He wants to make them to be upset with him and to feel like because then they won't pay attention to him.

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

If they think he's really weird, they'll give him a wide berth, and he'll get to continue doing his own thing alone.

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

That's something Jimmy is going to take from this experience, and it's going to be with him his whole life.

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

So the war ended and the Bevan boys started deserting the mines because they didn't want to work in a mine anymore.

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

It sucks.

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

Davies, his biographer, suspects that Savile was a repeat work skipper even before the war ended.

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

And basically that he was never working as much as he should have.