Mick Hartley

After Jimmy Savile, Huw Edwards, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall… why would the BBC do this?
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It is weird. BBC puts statue by sex abuser Eric Gill back on display.

The BBC has once again unveiled a controversial statue of Prospero and Ariel created by one of the 20th century’s most influential artists who also sexually abused his own daughters.

Hardly "one of the 20th century’s most influential artists". A minor figure at best.

Maybe if it was somewhere less obvious – but this is on the front of Broadcasting House, in a big protective case, as though to say: look, this is what we're all about. A statue of a man with a naked little boy…