You hear his name in films and on TV as a sort of inside British joke about pedophilia, but if you didn’t grow up with him on British radio and TV, you can’t really appreciate the scale of this public betrayal.

But it turns out he was a pedophile without peer, a platinum-white blond haired monster right under everyone’s noses.

Jimmy Savile was a Star personality of the ’60s and ’70s who became a lionized public figure thanks to great success as a charity fundraiser.

Here’s the film to tell us how on Earth that happened.

April 6, only Netflix.