Jim'll Fix It

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This was a programme that made kids dreams come true. Children could write in asking to live out a (within reason) fantasy, and Jimmy Saville would do his best to fulfil it.People use to ask to do things like "eat school dinner on a roller coaster" or "be a stuntman for a day." I think at one point I wrote in, but my request to be able to fly wasn't read out.I loved the letters that began "Dear Jim'll"

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