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A Pound & A Prayer
At the time, TV and radio was the ultimate stardom.
Just like movie execs, actors, music execs, sportspeople...... they used status to nonce people.
So I think it was the fame and clout more than being BBC.
The BBC has a track record of looking the other way re: allegations with these personalities though. I won’t go as far as to say they’re complicit but they definitely don’t care as much as they should when people start getting accused of being wrong’uns.