James Walton

The fiasco of Operation Yewtree: C4’s The Accused – National Treasures on Trial reviewed

Plus: startling claims and iffy theories from Sky Arts's Wonderland: From J.M. Barrie to J.R.R. Tolkien

Cliff Richards in 2018 after winning his privacy battle with the BBC. [Photo: Ian Lawrence X / Getty Images] 
issue 27 August 2022

At 4.38 a.m., one morning in October 2013, the radio presenter Paul Gambaccini was understandably asleep when the doorbell rang. He was then arrested for sexually assaulting a minor on what proved to be the word of a drug addict with a history of making false accusations.

The trouble for Gambaccini, though, was that this wasn’t proved for another 11 months.

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