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Original cast of BBC‘S narnia The chain has said that they were warned about it jimmy saville As children.
Broadcast for six weeks in 1988, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The first of four Narnia books written by cs lewis To be adapted into three series for the BBC.
The show stars relative newcomers as the Pevensie children, who discover a magical portal to a new world inside a country house cupboard. Sophie Wilcox stars as Lucy, Richard Dempsey as Peter, Sophie Cook as Susan and Jonathan R. Scott as Edmund.
Nearly 40 years after the show aired, the original cast reunites for a two-hour documentary return to narnia,
in a new interview many timesThe actors talk about the investigation suddenly thrust into the spotlight – as well as the warnings about serial sex offender Jimmy Savile.
“It was a very strange time,” said Cook, who was 13 when she started playing Suzanne.
“I don’t know if anyone told you the story of Jimmy Savile being in the studio next when we were filming at TV Center [in White City, west London]And a floor manager came up to us and said, ‘Don’t go near him, he’s a small player.’
Cook continued: “It was just known… [I’m] No hole in bbc. i think that [it] It was just…culturally accepted. You know, this level of knowledge about what’s going on, a blackout, is just one studio away.
Although allegations against Savile surfaced in the eighties, police began investigating his abuse in 2012, a year after his death. Over six decades, Savile sexually abused hundreds of children and women – using his status as a major celebrity and his connections in the church, the NHS, the royal family and the government to facilitate and conceal his crimes.
In response to Cook’s claim, the BBC said: “Following the revelations about Savile, the BBC commissioned former Court of Appeal judge Dame Janet Smith DBE to conduct an in-depth, independent review of the BBC’s culture and practices during her years working there, which was published in 2016. We accepted the findings and recommendations in full and have since implemented a number of changes to help prevent anything like this happening again.”
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the artists told many times He felt that the show’s production team was taking care of him.
Elsewhere in the interview, the actors recalled having fingers pointed at them in restaurants and being followed after the show aired. He also found some of the negative reviews particularly hurtful.
Wilcox, who played Lucy, said that she had seen the press saying that she was “‘coming out of my cardigan’ or something like that. Really fat-shaming. And I was a chubby kid”.
The Chronicles of Narnia Remastered Blu-ray edition including boxset return to narnia Released on 24th November.
If you are a child and you need help because something has happened to you, you can call the NSPCC free of charge on 0800 1111. If you are an adult and you are worried about a child, you can also call the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NEPAK) provides support for adults on 0808 801 0331.