BBC emails spark civil war over Jimmy Savile

Newsnight row described by John Simpson as 'worst crisis that I can remember in 50 years at BBC' Newsnight journalists were worried the programme's editor, Peter Rippon, was feeling under pressure from his bosses to axe an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by the one-time BBC star Jimmy Savile. As barely hidden internal tensions at the BBC burst into the open, a Newsnight reporter, Liz MacKean, told a BBC Panorama programme due to be broadcast on Monday that she believed Rippon woul...