Jimmy Savile: Attempting to Unmask A Monster in 2001

From the intro to the podcast: " 

As I say at the end of the show, I said to my girlfriend at the time, within minutes of walking away from Savile, “I feel spiritually polluted having been in his presence, though I don’t know why.” I now know why. In fact, listening nineteen years later to my nervous laughter throughout the interview, I suspect that a part of me sensed instinctively something of all we have since come to learn about that abomination called Jimmy Savile.

I also say in the original show that I felt morally torn when it came to the question of giving Savile airtime again – in any sense. The same applies to my now deciding to make the show available as a Podcast. But I made the original decision to turn the original tapes into a broadcast for my radio series The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited because I did at least try, to explore the psychology of an interviewee, as has always been my tendency. Did I succeed in doing so? You decide. The most I will claim for this 2001 interview is that it can be seen as a snapshot of the psycho-pathology of a sociopathic monster called Jimmy Savile."