Summary
FORTY years ago, I dismissed Mary Whitehouse as a bad joke. It seemed absurd that a middle aged woman with a crinkly face and West Midlands accent should aspire to lead a national campaign to 'clean up' radio and television.
My friends took her more seriously. Some simply resented the impertinence of 'being told' what programmes they should watch or hear. Others, believing she was more sinister, feared that if her ideas caught hold, British broadcasting would be subject to the sort of censorship they associated with totalitarian regimes.See the full content of this document
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I Hate to Say It, but I Was Wrong About Mary Whitehouse
I just laughed. It was the Sixties - and although they did not 'swing' in my part of the world, I had no doubt that the new age of intellectual and moral freedom would last for ever.
In a sense, I was right. The restraints which Mrs Whitehouse's National Viewers' And Listeners' Association called for have never been imposed. But the...See the full content of this document
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