Claire McAlpine was a fifteen year old girl who committed suicide. It was later discovered that she had recorded in her diaries that she had experienced sexual encounters with two DJs (Though neither were specifically named).
Surely it goes without saying that this girl deserves to have her story told, and told truthfully.
Not content with their part in enabling the abuse that Savile was regularly dishing out, they add insult to injury by appropriating this girl's tragic story and using her to further push their own ideology - While of course forcing the licence payer to fund it.
The fact is, Claire McAlpine was a white girl with blonde hair. She was not Asian and she did not have dark skin.
The BBC apparently deem the telling of HER story and representing who SHE really was, to be less important than their own obsession with pushing diversity.
This is no reflection on Tia Dutt who performed admirably and bravely, and the acting overall is superb, particularly that of Coogan. Fenella Woolgar as Margaret Thatcher too is excellent.
But Claire McAlpine was a real person. She was not a fictional Disney character. It is inexcusable that she should be portrayed as something she was not.
If indeed Savile did abuse Asian children, they too deserve to have their stories told, and portrayed accurately.
Unfortunately the BBC is less interested in telling us how things really were, and more concerned with their arrogant and sanctimonious need to tell us how they think things should have been - Hypocritical, considering that they were part of the reason they were how they really were.
Surely it goes without saying that this girl deserves to have her story told, and told truthfully.
Not content with their part in enabling the abuse that Savile was regularly dishing out, they add insult to injury by appropriating this girl's tragic story and using her to further push their own ideology - While of course forcing the licence payer to fund it.
The fact is, Claire McAlpine was a white girl with blonde hair. She was not Asian and she did not have dark skin.
The BBC apparently deem the telling of HER story and representing who SHE really was, to be less important than their own obsession with pushing diversity.
This is no reflection on Tia Dutt who performed admirably and bravely, and the acting overall is superb, particularly that of Coogan. Fenella Woolgar as Margaret Thatcher too is excellent.
But Claire McAlpine was a real person. She was not a fictional Disney character. It is inexcusable that she should be portrayed as something she was not.
If indeed Savile did abuse Asian children, they too deserve to have their stories told, and portrayed accurately.
Unfortunately the BBC is less interested in telling us how things really were, and more concerned with their arrogant and sanctimonious need to tell us how they think things should have been - Hypocritical, considering that they were part of the reason they were how they really were.