“Old friends in the morning, then wanting us dead in the afternoon”, says one of the men in Silence, repeating the line over and over. Decades after the event, he still can’t understand the speed at which hate and violence ignited in the wake of the 1947 Partition of India.
Mark Williams-Thomas, the former detective-turned-TV journalist who exposed the broadcaster, said the drama fails to always make clear that the BBC management knew and did not take action .
The friend of a schoolgirl who killed herself after Jimmy Savile s abuse says the BBC s The Reckoning changed her skin colour and suicide for their drama.