Recent articles by Mark Lawson (The day I thwarted Jimmy Savile, 1 April) and Lucy Mangan (Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story review, 6 April) reminded me vividly of the sentiment expressed by Dr Anthony Clare, the late presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series In the Psychiatrist’s Chair. In his 1992 book of the same title, Clare noted that “there is something chilling about this 20th-century ‘saint’”. The weirdness of Jimmy Savile was in plain sight, but was never, it seems, linked to criminality. The enigma will remain, as will the paralysis of those at the time who could have called him out.
David Handley
Gargrave, North Yorkshire
There was something chilling about the presenter, but no one seemed to link it to criminality, writes David Handley