Summary
IT WAS well after the watershed that the first f*** of the night was uttered on the BBC on Sunday. That it came from the mouth of Lord Louis Mountbatten and was directed at Dame Barbara Cartland should have made it all the more shocking. But it wasn't. It was appropriate, adult and genuinely funny. The f-word in question was about the only profanity to be found in the biopic In Love With Barbara - which is why it was so effective and not in the least bit offensive. This dramatised life and times of the Queen of Romance was everything we should expect from the BBC - intelligent, well- scripted and beautifully acted, especially Anne Reid, as Cartland, and David Warner, as Mountbatten.
It was also, well, terribly British, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. I fear that the distressing, foul-mouthed antics of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in relation to Andrew Sachs and his family are also terribly British these days - smug, superficial, self-indulgent and spiteful. Now I'm the last person to complain about swearing, in its place.See the full content of this document
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