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Thursday, November 10, 2011
JIMMY SAVILE “brought a little bit of magic and sparkle to everybody that he met”, mourners at his funeral service were told yesterday. Savile will be buried today following more public ceremonials in Scarborough, the North Yorkshire seaside town he loved and where he had a home. Savile, who presented the first episode of Top Of The Pops, was found dead at his flat in Roundhay, Leeds, just two days before his 85th birthday. He raised millions for charity and ran more than 200 marathons in support of good causes.
Sir Jimmy Savile 'Fixed It' for the Youghal Pipe Band
Jim’ll Fix It was a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1994. It was presented by Jimmy Savile.
The show debuted on 31 May 1975, and ran until July 1994, in the Saturday teatime slot. It was devised and hosted by the late Jimmy Savile, who would “fix it” for the wishes of several viewers (usually children) to come true each week.
The standard format was that the viewer’s letter, which described their wish, would be shown on the screen and read out aloud by the letter’s writer, although initially Savile himself read the letters. This would be followed with a quick chat between Jimmy and the letter writer, where they would discuss the wish.
The wish would then be enacted (either live in the studio or shown in a pre-recorded format, which usually consisted of a segment recorded on film), and finally the viewer would be presented with a medal which had the words “Jim fixed it for me” engraved on it.
Occasionally, other people featured in the ‘Fix It’ (actors from well known series, for example), might also give the viewer an extra gift somehow relating to the Fix. Savile himself played no part in the filming or recording of the ‘fix-its’, unless specifically requested as part of the letter writer’s wish.
Youghal Pipe Band's Michael McCarthy wrote the letter to Jim'll Fix It
Fr. Tom Paul Geary "My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass"
Youghal Pipe Band march at Green Park, Youghal, back in 1984
Back in 1984 the late Michael McCarthy from the Youghal Pipe Band wrote to the Jim’ll Fix It programme asking if Jim’ll Fix It so that the pipe band could be on the tv as a request from his father, Duis McCarthy. Jim indeed fixed it for the Youghal Pipe Band and the BBC team duly arrived in town to film the pipers in different location around Youghal and nearby Ardmore. Youghal priest Fr. Tom Paul Geary and Michael McCarthy went to the BBC studios where they received the famous Jim’ll Fix It medal on St. Patrick’s Day 1984.
“Now Then” - Click on the video below to see the Jim’ll Fix It show and bring back memories of Youghal back in 1984
GEORGE ALAGIAH DELIVERS ENDEARING, ENTRANCING PERFORMANCE IN LISMORE
Christy Parker was in the audience for the BBC journalist’s IMMRAMA appearance.
Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)
George Alagiah speaking at The Blackwater Community School during the
Lismore Immrama Festival 2008
BBC newsreader and journalist George Alagiah attracted an audience of over 300 to the Blackwater Community School for his contribution to Lismore’s 2008 IMMRAMA Festival. They were richly awarded as the Sri-Lankan-born, African-raised, British citizen delivered a truly wonderful commentary on his experiences, impressions, hopes and fears garnered over ten years as a war correspondent, subsequent black immigrant and ongoing role as the a BBC news correspondent.
Anne O’Dwyer, Pat Whyte, Eason Dungarvan, Matt Houlihan, Mary Houlihan, PRO Immrama, George Alagiah, Reg O’Dwyer and Jan Rotte, Deputy Mayor Lismore
Mr. Alagiah was considerably nervous prior to going onstage and would subsequently cite the daunting difference between addressing a camera lens and a hall full of expectant faces. He cannot have realised how consummate a communicator he is. His strength is to merge a natural friendliness, a passion for his subject and an innate ability to Read more
By Michael Hussey
Actress Jessica Moynihan- Regan home on holidays in Youghal on a break from her busy schedule in London. Jessica told Youghalonline.com that she will soon be on our screens over the coming months. She recently filmed an episode of the comedy hit ‘Peep Show’ for channel 4 which will be aired in May. She is currently filming the new comedy sketch show for BBC 3 called
