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Tonight you'll get to spend some time in the dark with David Thompson, the film critic whose reviews are always worth five stars.

We'll also ask what the Jimmy Saville case tells us about the nature of institutions, including the one from which I'm talking to you now, and what celebrities get out of charitable work.

Virtue. That's what the poor give the powerful in these situations. They give them virtue. Now, isn't that horribly ironic in this particular situation? Because we've got, as it were, Jimmy Saville

gaining virtue from the people he's actually abusing. I just, I mean, I just think that's the most

horrific transaction going. The Reverend Giles Fraser, later you'll hear his conclusions

and those of the criminologist David Wilson.

First, though, you've heard of sock puppets.

Well, now encounter the finger puppets who are performing a role rarely asked of them,

mobilizing opposition to a murderous political regime.

I'm not me a manhizun, I'm not a manhiz you. The puppets of Top Goon, an internet phenomenon in Syria, where satire is surprisingly important in a country convulsed by what's now customarily described as a civil war.

While Assad's forces put the Free Syrian Army in their sights, writers, artists and cartoonists are attacking the regime with words and images,

as they might have done had Syria been permitted its own Arab Spring.

An exhibition in Amsterdam is bringing Western attention to this work.

It's called Culture and Defiance, Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the struggle for freedom in Syria.

And its curator Malou Halasa is with me now.

Malu, your case for the importance of this kind of protest is made, I think, by a little acknowledged fact.

I think something that has escaped the notice of most people, the fact that the first waves of protest against Assad began

with a piece of street art and its consequences.

Definitely the Syrian uprising began when a group of kids, some as young as 10.

They spray painted on the walls of a town in Dera, in the south of the country near the Borden of Jordan,

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