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5326: 5312: 1062:, "a manual of children's rights" on sex, drugs and attitudes to adults, which was successfully prosecuted for obscenity in July 1971. It was originally published in Denmark where, according to Whitehouse, it had done "incalculable damage" and was "a revolutionary primer", in which "open rebellion against the 'system', be it school, parents or authority generally, was openly advocated, while children were constantly exhorted to collect evidence against teachers of alleged injustices or anything which was likely to enhance revolution." 741:, she rejected any attempt to show a 'copycat' correlation in academic studies, but urged its acceptance as a fact arrived at by common sense. In December 1974, she wrote of the "deliberate propagation" of the idea that there is no proof of the effects of television on "standards and behaviour". To reject its effect, and its ability to "declaim or pervert truth, is to deny the potency of communication itself, it is crazily to question the ability of education to affect the social conscience and to train the human mind". 1321:, came into being in 1979. Maureen Duffy, the group's honorary president, described the group as driven by an "ethics of compassion", best characterised "a fluid morality, based on a perception of fellowness, fellow feeling, fellow suffering". Ever since its foundation, LGBT Humanists UK has continued to organise events, assist those seeking asylum who are fleeing anti-LGBT+ prejudice and/or religious discrimination, and to provide a site of fellowship and community for non-religious LGBT+ communities in the UK. 503:. He was, according to Whitehouse, "the devil incarnate" who "more than anybody else ... responsible for the moral collapse in this country." The CUTV manifesto asserted that the BBC under Greene spread "the propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt ... promiscuity, infidelity and drinking". In place of this, the authors argued, the corporation's activities should "encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the hearts of our family and national life." Interviewed by 576:. Reportedly, for some time Downing Street intentionally "lost" her letters to avoid having to respond to them. It has though been suggested that her contact with parliamentarians helped give her some leverage over the BBC which her own direct communication with the corporation's executives could not achieve. Although accepting the differences between them, Whitehouse wrote to Wilson on 1 January 1968: "You have always treated our approaches to you seriously and with courtesy." 1269:, published the poem in the 3–16 June 1976 issue on the basis that the "message and intention of the poem was to celebrate the absolute universality of God's love". Whitehouse told Michael Tracey and David Morrison, the authors of a book about her: "I think it shook me more than anything I had seen or come into contact with all the time I had been campaigning. ... I don't think Jesus Christ has ever been more real to me as a person than he was at that particular moment." 1602: 55: 1169:, which received public money, to produce a booklet on paedophilia, which was to have been published by the Trust. Whitehouse mentioned the connection in a speech, asserting that public funds were being used to subsidise paedophile groups, and the Trust withdrew its support for the production of the pamphlet in 1977. However, PIE itself did not receive public funding. 1026:
I don't think she has had any effect at all. She never sees things in context. She will see something in an exploitation video and condemn it in the same breath as she will condemn a Dennis Potter classic. I respect her fortitude in fighting the battles over the years, trying to get her point of view
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Since Whitehouse had not seen the play, the prosecution evidence rested on the testimony of her solicitor, Graham Ross-Cornes, who claimed he saw the actor's penis. However, cross-examination revealed that he had seen a performance of the play from the back row of the stalls, 90 feet from the stage.
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editorial on 15 July commented: "The prosecution was perverse, the verdict misguided. As for the punishments, given that this was in effect a test case, they are excessive" and "left the law on obscenity even more muddled and confused than it was before, and have served no useful purpose whatsoever,
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for its Christmas 1965 issue, Whitehouse thought the BBC loaded its programmes in favour of the 'new morality'. She commented about one unnamed television programme, believing it to be "unbalanced" and biased, in which "youngsters were asking questions there was not a single member of the panel who
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In a speech Greene delivered in 1965 he argued, without naming Whitehouse direct, that the critics of his liberalisation of broadcasting policy would "attack whatever does not underwrite a set of prior assumptions" and saw the potential for "a dangerous form of censorship ... which works by causing
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editorial after the verdict said of the trial: "No evidence was called, or allowed to be called, about the merits of the poem in literature or theology", despite the case concerning blasphemy, or to suggest that Kirkup's intention had been to "scandalise" which, given the poet's "list of serious
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rather than the BBC. Nuclear war was "too serious a matter to be treated as entertainment. For a producer to be allowed, as now appears possible, to prejudice the effectiveness of our Civil Defence Services, or the ability of the British people to re-act with courage, initiative and control in a
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on their small list of publications. For Whitehouse it was a "fundamental right of a child to be a child" and "the duty of mature people to ensure that childhood is protected against the inroads of those who would exploit its immaturity for political, social or personal gain." A modified second
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she argued that "owever good the cause ... the horrific effects on men and terrain of modern warfare as seen on the television screen could well sap the will of a nation to safeguard its own freedom, let alone resist the forces of evil abroad." Trying to reconcile this "pacifism" with her
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attacked many of the things Whitehouse cherished. She objected to its profane language: "I doubt if many people would use 121 bloodies in half-an-hour", and "Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication."
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in July 1967 with a full apology and substantial damages, after Speight implied in a BBC radio interview that the organisation's members and its head were fascists. Shortly after Speight's interview, she was mocked in an episode of the series entitled "Alf's Dilemma" (27 February 1967).
815:) survives an encounter with a giant carnivorous plant monster, she commented: "Strangulation—by hand, by claw, by obscene vegetable matter—is the latest gimmick, sufficiently close up so they get the point. And just for a little variety, show the children how to make a 937:(1979) for consideration by other IBA board members to decide if Channel 4 should transmit it. The channel had screened the theatrical remake, based on a then-banned BBC television play, in June 1983. The High Court decision was overturned on appeal when it reached the 1249:
between 4 and 7 July 1977. It was the first prosecution for the offence since 1922. "I simply had to protect Our Lord", said Whitehouse at the time, Kirkup's poem being in her opinion "the recrucifixion of Christ by 20th-century weapons". The prosecution counsel
271:, using it as a platform to criticise the BBC for what she perceived as a lack of accountability and excessive use of bad language and portrayals of sex and violence in its programmes. During the 1970s she broadened her activities and was a leading figure in the 1759:. The title was an oblique reference to Whitehouse's campaigning against her perception of declining values on TV and radio, although she was rarely satirised directly. The show later transferred to television and made household names of its four protagonists. 473:. Richard Whitehouse, one of her sons, recalled in 2008: "Coaches arrived from all over the country. Two thousand people poured in and suddenly there was my mother on a podium inspiring them to rapturous applause. Her hands were shaking. But she didn't stop.” 1354:
Whitehouse had hoped to use the blasphemy laws against material other than Kirkup's poem and was interested in pursuing a possible action against allegedly blasphemous content for some time. She had hoped that it could be used as a basis for prosecution if
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The Clean Up TV petition, using the manifesto, gained 500,000 signatures. Whitehouse complained in 1993 that during Greene's period at the BBC "hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me". Whitehouse's critics responded quickly. The playwright
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artists and writers not to take risks". He defended the right of the BBC "to be ahead of public opinion". Greene ignored Whitehouse, blocked her from participation in BBC broadcasts, and purchased a painting of Whitehouse with five breasts by
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opined, "Even if her campaigning did not succeed in 'cleaning up TV', still less in making it more fit to watch in other ways, she was of serious intent, and was an influence for good at a crucial stage in the development both of the
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then ruled that it did. After three days, the action was withdrawn after the prosecution counsel told Whitehouse that he was unable to continue with the case; the litigation was ended by the Attorney General putting forward a plea of
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was prepared to say outright that pre-marital relations were wrong. In fact, when a girl asked a clergyman, 'Do you think that fornication is sin?' he replied, 'It depends on what you mean by sin and what you mean by fornication.
432:, from 1960, taking responsibility for sex education. Shocked at the moral beliefs of her pupils, she became concerned about what she and many others perceived as declining moral standards in the British media, especially in the 4778: 4709: 952:" series of films in 1986, so named after the warning preceding them which featured a red triangle with a white centre. The broadcasting of these films with the triangle had received criticism from opponents of Whitehouse. 468:
With Norah Buckland, the wife of a vicar, she launched the Clean Up TV (CUTV) Campaign in January 1964 with a manifesto appealing to the "women of Britain". The campaign's first public meeting, on 5 May 1964, was held in
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Whitehouse's campaigns continue to divide opinion. Her critics have accused her of being a highly censorious, bigoted figure, and her traditional moral convictions brought her into direct conflict with advocates of the
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objection to fictional violence, she saw such news coverage as "desensitisation" in which the media use the "techniques of violence" to raise "impact" in order "to satisfy an apparently insatiable demand for realism".
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The backlash that Whitehouse received led her to suggest that an "intellectual/homosexual/humanist lobby" was to blame, a comment that did not escape the attention of members of this as yet non-existent group. The
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and Thatcher, who had declared the show her favourite programme, presented the award. Whitehouse sat laughing next to Thatcher as the Prime Minister acted out a sketch, written principally by her press secretary,
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was successful. Cooper sent her a bunch of flowers, since he believed the publicity helped the song to reach number one. The NVALA had around 150,000 members at its peak, but claimed 30,000 in April 1977.
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in 1980. In 1988, she suffered a spinal injury in a fall, which severely curbed her campaigning activities. Whitehouse retired as president of the NVALA in 1994. She died, aged 91, in a nursing home in
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as "offensive, indecent and embarrassing" after a comic account of a conversation following sexual intercourse. In return, comedy writers during this era saw her as possessing humorous potential.
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and others. She was said to have had a role in the establishment of the Broadcasting Standards Council in 1988, which later became the Broadcasting Standards Commission and was subsumed into the
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dispute. NVALA organised a publicity campaign, which resulted in Thorsen's intentions gaining significant public condemnation in September 1976 from leading public figures, including Queen
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believes "Mary Whitehouse was a significant figure. Some of her battles were justified, even prophetic. Today her attacks on 'kiddie porn' would be widely supported." The academic
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She was "greatly relieved—for the sake of the children" at the £50 fine and £115.50 costs imposed on Richard Handyside and Geoffrey Collins, its publishers, who also had works by
465:, his deputy, a Roman Catholic who she felt listened to her with understanding. Over the next few months though, she continued to be dissatisfied with what she saw on television. 3698: 1562:(1981) considered by her "the number one nasty". It was "a highly effective means of lobbying the government to introduce tight state controls on the burgeoning video industry". 547:, Shropshire, hosting its first office, replacing what they themselves perceived as CUTV's negativity with an active campaign for legislative change. The former cabinet minister 3269: 4107: 2879: 2651: 1972: 4964: 3878: 486:
commented the following day: "Perhaps never before in the history of the Birmingham Town Hall has such a successful meeting been sponsored by such a flimsy organisation.”
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across, but it is a point of view which would have totally destroyed British television if it had become the set of values by which we had commissioned programmes.
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crisis, surely goes far beyond the responsibility" which should be given to someone in this role. The letter was leaked at the time and extracts were published.
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using a potential extension of the "deprave and corrupt" provision in the Obscene Publications Act 1959. The plan was abandoned because the Home Secretary,
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million people. Whitehouse urged the Conservative opposition to push for a bill on the subject, in the absence of interest from the Labour government. The
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lost the case; the jury decided the case on a 10–2 majority. Lemon and his paper were fined, and Lemon received a nine-month suspended prison sentence. A
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as BBC chairman in 1967, whereby she could be given some credit for his departure, it was more to do with a political struggle between the BBC and the
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observed: "her main focus was on sex, followed by bad language and violence. Odd: if she had reversed the order, she might have been more effective."
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Around 1986, papers released in late December 2014 indicate, Whitehouse met Thatcher on at least two occasions to discuss the possibility of banning
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cliffhanger ending to the third episode, in which the Doctor appeared to drown, was altered for repeat showings. The series' next producer,
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It has been claimed by commentators not necessarily in agreement with her that Whitehouse's efforts played a part in the passage of the
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as a children's programme, for little children, and it wasn't ... so she was really coming at the show from the wrong starting-point."
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herself, whose support base partially consisted of social conservatives. It has been claimed by the Conservative journalist
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Richard Stanley "Dying Light: An Obituary for the Great British Horror Movie" in Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley (eds.)
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Whitehouse took private prosecutions in a number of cases where official action was not forthcoming. The action against
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had heckled her at Birmingham Town Hall; his work was criticised during the meeting. Within a few months, an episode of
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Some years earlier, Potter had publicly defended Whitehouse on several occasions without agreeing with her arguments.
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pressure group, established in 1964, in which she was the most prominent figure. The following year she founded the
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Whitehouse became an art teacher, at the same time becoming involved in evangelical Christian groups such as the
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edition was allowed to be published in the UK, but the original verdict in the prosecution was sustained in the
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to refuse the film a certificate, were successful in persuading some councils in Britain to ban screenings of
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in 2008, saying: "Her fear of homosexuals was visceral". He describes the beliefs she reveals in her book,
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A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to "The Thick of It"
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Whitehouse and a letter writing campaign from the Festival of Light, after unsuccessfully lobbying the
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was attended by 50,000 people in September 1971. On 25 August that year she had had an audience with
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on 6 October. In her view, a decision over whether to broadcast Watkins' film should be taken by the
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that the market orientation of the Thatcher government prejudiced it against Whitehouse in private.
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Whitehouse stepped down as President of the National Viewers and Listeners Association in May 1994.
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Lord Thomson of Monifieth "A Defence of the Independent Broadcasting Authority" in Peter Catteral
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Mary Whitehouse 'Promoting Violence', Royal College of Nursing in the UK Professional Conference,
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to deny Thorsen entry. Whitehouse gained more widespread support regarding Thorsen than in the
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on 30 April 1966, and acted as a contact between his parliamentary colleagues and Whitehouse.
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Prime Minister, Wilson. However Hill was prepared to meet Whitehouse at Broadcasting House.
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works", the newspaper thought should have been proven. The judge in at the prosecution,
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shared some of her opinions and was present on the platform with her at this meeting.
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feminist anti-pornography campaigns to the executive naming and shaming strategies of
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Permission and regulation: Sexual morality and the criminal law in Britain, 1955-75
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Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die—An Unofficial Companion
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Philip Hinchcliffe later remarked, "I always felt that Mary Whitehouse thought of
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before qualifying in 1932. She became an art teacher at Lichfield Road School in
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Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power From 1586 to the Present Day
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The papers of the NVALA for 1970–1990 have been deposited at the library of the
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regarding 'moral pollution', in which she attempted to present the pontiff with
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dismissed appeals, although Lemon's suspended prison sentence was overturned.
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both declined Whitehouse's invitation for them to give evidence at the trial.
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Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement
3016: 2637:, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972, p.95, 96 890:
in November 1982, Whitehouse was objecting to swear words in the soap opera
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Whitehouse and the NVALA won a libel action against the BBC and its writer
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received a letter from Whitehouse complaining about his decision to repeat
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War coverage met with her objections. During his brief period as editor of
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Report by Toby Neal, part of 'Great Lives' series on Midlands worthies.
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Whitehouse's early campaign and her disagreements with the BBC under
945: 887: 812: 544: 482: 411:"as a loyal housewife and subject" and wrote an extensive article on 3871:"No evidence that Home Office funded paedophile group, review finds" 3228:""Whitehouse 'kept TV on its toes'", BBC obituary, 23 November 2001" 1456:
of Celtic Britain in 54 BC and the contemporary British presence in
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Whitehouse's supporters have asserted that her campaigns helped end
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Whitehouse returned to teaching in 1953. That year she broadcast on
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Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses
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by her socially liberal opponents. Her motivation derived from her
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on BBC Radio, Whitehouse confused the playwright with his hero in
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The grave of Mary Whitehouse's husband, Ernest Raymond Whitehouse
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Jones, Peter (April 1980). "Blasphemy, Offensiveness and Law".
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contains some typographical errors, these have been corrected.
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Mary Warnock "Whitehouse , (Constance) Marywhitehouse, Mary",
4202:"Humanist Heritage: From the archives: Separate Development?" 1591: 1036: 982: 395: 356: 212:; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and 4706:"A life spent trying in vain to preserve the suburban idyll" 3566:, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995) and Ben Thompson (ed) 2460:
The Third Floor Front: A View of Broadcasting in the Sixties
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Although he regularly clashed with Whitehouse, the academic
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Bound and Gagged: A Secret History of Censorship in Britain
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The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Volume 5
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were the basis of a drama first broadcast in 2008 entitled
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Whitehouse began her activism in 1963 with a letter to the
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The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
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Patrick Murphy and John Cook "The War Game" in Ian Aitken
2513:, London: Little, Brown (Hatchette Digital) 2008, p.111-12 1521:
By the 1980s, Whitehouse had found a powerful ally in the
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Knewstub, Nikki (10 February 1977). "Thorsen sent back".
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Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
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Ban This Filth!: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive
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The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain: Modern Britain
1986:
Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
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Following the release on appeal of the defendants in the
718:", 1971) with the principal objective of irritating her. 450: 433: 229: 3979:, 15 July 1977, in a version republished 3 February 2006 3816:"Groups linked to paedophile network given state grants" 2635:
The New Documentary in Action: a Casebook in Film Making
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Later in 1965, the decision by the BBC not to broadcast
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Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits From Propaganda
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Fight and Kick and Bite: Life and Work of Dennis Potter
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Channel 4: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy
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A much used description, see for example Daniel Hallin
2138:"Mary Whitehouse: To some a crank, to others a warrior" 1878:"Mary Whitehouse: 'Sometimes I denied she was my mother 1684:(winner of NVALA's Best Family Viewing Award in 1967), 672:
Programmes: comedy and drama from the mid-1960s to 1980
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to appear as "character" witnesses for the newspaper.
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by the early 1970s. She objected to the UK edition of
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State of Emergency, The Way We Were: Britain 1970–74
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State of Emergency, The Way We Were: Britain 1970–74
2669:, transmitted on 23 May 1994. See the BFI site also 2598:(subscription required) Also see Geoffrey Robertson 2019:"Fearsome Mary and her fight to rid TV of 'filth'". 1052:
Whitehouse had taken up other campaigns against the
3545:, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p.10 2187:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, p.332, 334 3610:All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture 2698:, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2013 , p,974 2164:, London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979, p.41 1452:, a play that "drew a direct parallel between the 1434:In 1982 she pursued a private prosecution against 632:on 6 August 1965 led to Whitehouse writing to Sir 25:. For the television film with Julie Walters, see 4623: 3558:, 16 February 1973, quoted in W. Stephen Gilbert 3344:"Whitehouse wins Scum television film court case" 2931:"Television: Controlling the explosive influence" 2622:Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960–75 2590:"The Mary Whitehouse Story: Mary, quite contrary" 2274:, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, p.159 1516: 1501:Whitehouse's account of the trial is recorded in 224:. She was the founder and first president of the 5333: 3646:Whitehouse (1977) p.180, cited in McEnery, p.143 3633:Whitehouse (1977) p.181, quoted in Tony McEnery 3523:, Manchester University Press, 1998, p.350, n.82 3409:"Mary Whitehouse: Moral crusader or spoilsport?" 3246: 2743:, The Museum of Broadcast Communications website 2449:, London & New York; Bloomsbury, 2014, p.136 2286:"Crusader was dubbed Britain's 'Queen of Clean'" 2261:, 6 May 1964, cited by Tracey and Morrison, p.44 1172:Her subsequent petition against paedophilia and 5302:"Archival material relating to Mary Whitehouse" 4563:State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945 2232:"Valid arguments lost in an obsession over sex" 1157:Opposition to paedophilia and child pornography 4918:"National Viewers' and Listeners' Association" 4557: 4555: 4553: 4551: 4027:"1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy, July 11" 3991: 3989: 3987: 3985: 3206:David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen Walker. 3175:The full quote is in Tracey and Morrison, p.85 2763:, 5 April 1970, quoted in Tracey and Morrison 927:against John Whitney, director-general of the 257:Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship 5362:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 5187:Cleaning-up TV: From Protest to Participation 3459: 3457: 2869: 2767:, London: Macmillan, 1979, p.86-87, 205, n.27 2706: 2704: 2483: 2481: 2249:, was not transmitted until 24 February 1965. 1935:"Mary Whitehouse, 91; Led British TV Cleanup" 931:, who had failed to forward the feature film 702:Whitehouse was critical of comedians such as 489: 4908:, Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex 4601: 4599: 4597: 4595: 4351:Aspects of Toleration: Philosophical Studies 4021: 4019: 3162:Mary Whitehouse quoted by Dominic Sandbrook 2078: 1577:Later years and assessments of her influence 1359:succeeded in his effort to produce the film 896:and two feature films the channel screened, 541:National Viewers' and Listeners' Association 269:National Viewers' and Listeners' Association 226:National Viewers' and Listeners' Association 138:National Viewers' and Listeners' Association 4754: 4752: 4548: 4523: 3982: 3690: 3688: 2226: 2224: 2055: 2053: 2051: 2049: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 1556:in late 1983, which included extracts from 568:Through the letters she frequently sent to 382:She joined the Wolverhampton branch of the 371:, where she stayed for eight years, and at 5324: 5310: 4824:"Campaigner Mary Whitehouse dies, aged 91" 4727: 4725: 4433:"What did 'Life of Brian' ever do for us?" 4063: 4061: 3587: 3585: 3454: 3403: 3401: 3085: 3083: 2755: 2753: 2751: 2749: 2701: 2478: 1964: 1962: 1960: 1929: 1927: 424:She taught art and was senior mistress at 53: 4850:"Mourners pay tribute to Mary Whitehouse" 4770: 4768: 4592: 4016: 3433: 3156: 2681: 2679: 2648:"Television: Mary, Mary, quite contrary " 2587: 2521: 2519: 2339: 2337: 2312: 2310: 2308: 2306: 2199: 2197: 2195: 2193: 2179: 2177: 2113: 2111: 2084: 1107:, Whitehouse was a leading figure in the 785:met with her heaviest disapproval during 16:British conservative activist (1910–2001) 5112:""Endeavour" Canticle (TV Episode 2017)" 4749: 4568: 4370: 4244: 3685: 3220: 2907:, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p.24 2797:"A Family at War: Till Death Do Us Part" 2663:The Late Show: The Mary Whitehouse Story 2583: 2581: 2579: 2462:, London: The Bodley Head, 1969, p.100-1 2407: 2405: 2386:"Television: Freedom and Responsibility" 2221: 2132: 2130: 2128: 2126: 2046: 2003: 1600: 1427: 1043:Other campaigns and private prosecutions 363:art teaching, she was involved with the 353:Cheshire County Teacher Training College 128:Cheshire County Teacher Training College 5006: 4938:"Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story BBC2" 4722: 4430: 4399: 4300: 4058: 3843: 3813: 3582: 3398: 3080: 2957: 2791: 2789: 2746: 2343:Mary Whitehouse quoted by David Stubbs 2119:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2085:Moorehead, Caroline (31 October 1977). 2033: 2031: 1957: 1924: 1872: 1870: 1301:except to delight Mrs Whitehouse". The 1153:, who deliberately named it after her. 959:on the British TV discussion programme 737:(1971). In the case of the violence in 497:, knighted in January 1964, became her 183: 1940; died 2000) 5334: 4765: 4492: 3898: 3896: 3436:"Was Mary Whitehouse right all along?" 2676: 2516: 2334: 2303: 2272:The Production of Political Television 2190: 2174: 2108: 1733:In 1989 a sketch comedy show began on 706:and his use of dancers; she described 5014:"Mary Whitehouse drama heads for BBC" 4461: 4431:Bhaskar, Sanjeev (29 November 2009). 4412:from the original on 20 December 2016 4263: 3868: 3862: 3535:British Television Drama in the 1980s 3300:. London. 26 November 1982. p. 3 3097:(NY Times News Service), 7 April 1977 3064:"The post-Mary Whitehouse experience" 2576: 2402: 2283: 2123: 1544:, which concerned sex shops, and the 1331:in the case, described Whitehouse as 1265:Denis Lemon, the editor and owner of 1221:The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name 923:In 1984 Whitehouse won a case in the 615:'s coverage of the liberation of the 596: 263:. She became a public figure via the 4348:John Horton and Susan Mendus (eds.) 4267:British Journal of Political Science 3958: 3844:Thomson, Mathew (28 November 2013). 3415:from the original on 26 January 2009 3334:, London: I.B Tauris, 2008, p.39, 41 3197:, Toronto: ECW Press, 2013, p.148-49 3166:, London: Allen Lane, 2010, p.461-62 3118:from the original on 6 November 2012 2786: 2371:, London: Little, Brown, 2006, p.544 2028: 1867: 1542:Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 1406:British Board of Film Classification 1209:and other cases of alleged blasphemy 407:on the day before the coronation of 5130:"Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story" 4177:"Humanist Heritage: LGBT Humanists" 4152:"Humanist Heritage: LGBT Humanists" 3997:"James Kirkup: poet and translator" 3902: 3893: 2960:"Morals Campaigner Mary Whitehouse" 2588:Robertson, Geoffrey (24 May 2008). 2503:The Remarkable Lives Of Bill Deedes 2023:. 11 October 2021. pp. 20, 29. 1703:In 1984 the NVALA gave an award to 331:Whitehouse was born in Croft Road, 13: 5148: 4686:from the original on 21 March 2009 4400:Sellers, Richard (28 March 2003). 4361:, Abingdon: Routledge, 1985 , p.24 3659:, Junction Books, 1982, p.111, 113 3560:The Life and Work of Dennis Potter 3434:Rees-Mogg, William (7 June 2010). 3372:, Abingdon: Routledge, 1999 , p.75 3136: 2970:from the original on 13 April 2012 2916:Michael Tracey and David Morrison 2870:Brooke-Taylor, Tim (24 May 2008). 2471:Michael Tracey and David Morrison 1711:, writers of the situation comedy 1149:was launched in 1975 by publisher 988:In August 1989, in a broadcast of 929:Independent Broadcasting Authority 721:Whitehouse criticised the work of 440:Clean Up TV campaign and the NVALA 291:, which had been performed at the 14: 5388: 5322:National Portrait Gallery, London 5272: 4536:from the original on 8 March 2017 4505:from the original on 8 March 2017 4474:from the original on 7 March 2017 4443:from the original on 1 March 2017 4037:from the original on 7 March 2008 3923:from the original on 6 March 2016 3881:from the original on 3 March 2016 3780:, London: Macmillan, 2004 , p.490 3767:, London: Allen Lane, 2010, p.462 3469:, p.86. See also Stuart Jeffries 2882:from the original on 15 June 2011 2777:"Damages For Mrs Mary Whitehouse" 1945:from the original on 6 March 2016 1777:Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story 1743:, starring alternative comedians 1047: 1037:Broadcasting Standards Commission 714:comedy team created an episode (" 655:The contemporary coverage of the 640:on 5 September, and again to the 216:activist. She campaigned against 5377:Schoolteachers from Warwickshire 5259:Quite Contrary: An Autobiography 5122: 5104: 5079: 5054: 5030: 4991:. London. 19 May 1967. p. 3 4973: 4956: 4944:from the original on 30 May 2010 4930: 4911: 4892: 4868: 4842: 4816: 4792: 4762:, London: Routledge, 2002, p.184 4698: 4672: 4645: 4517: 4493:Travis, Alan (18 October 2004). 4486: 4462:Jones, Nelson (16 August 2011). 4455: 4424: 4393: 4364: 4342: 4329: 4316: 4294: 4257: 4219: 4194: 4169: 4144: 4121: 3814:Kennedy, Dominic (8 July 2014). 3637:, London: Routledge, 2006, p.143 3234:from the original on 30 May 2008 2992:, London: Faber, 2012 cited by 2958:Coleman, Sarah (February 2002). 2380:The full manifesto is quoted by 2284:Lewis, Paul (20 December 2001). 1671:played her husband, Ernest, and 1656:Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story 1623:Dictionary of National Biography 28:Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story 4981:"Best Family Viewing Award for 4876:"In defence of Mary Whitehouse" 4098: 4074: 4049: 3935: 3837: 3807: 3783: 3770: 3757: 3745: 3732: 3712: 3662: 3649: 3640: 3627: 3615: 3602: 3548: 3526: 3521:Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen 3513: 3489: 3427: 3375: 3353: 3337: 3315: 3286: 3262: 3200: 3178: 3169: 3130: 3100: 3056: 3032: 3010: 2982: 2951: 2923: 2910: 2895: 2863: 2839: 2817: 2770: 2726: 2640: 2627: 2614: 2611:, London: Vintage, 1999 , p.136 2554: 2532: 2494: 2465: 2452: 2429: 2374: 2361: 2277: 2264: 2252: 2154: 1538:Protection of Children Act 1978 1200:Protection of Children Act 1978 1163:Paedophile Information Exchange 886:Within a week of the launch of 180: 5218:(pbk: Hodder & Stoughton, 4565:, London: Faber, 2007, p.305-6 4495:"Medieval law has had its day" 3720:"Whitehouse, Mary (1910–2001)" 3411:. BBC News. 23 November 2001. 3230:. BBC News. 23 November 2001. 2665:, which was, according to the 2529:, Profile Books, 2000, p.231-2 1898: 1740:The Mary Whitehouse Experience 1678:Her favourite programmes were 1517:Margaret Thatcher's government 1286:QC, had only allowed novelist 1080:European Court of Human Rights 822:Following her complaint about 22:The Mary Whitehouse Experience 1: 4680:"BBC 'On This Day', 18 March" 4524:Brooke, Michael (2003–2014). 3869:Mason, Rowena (7 July 2014). 3184:Graeme Burk and Robert Smith 2458:Reprinted in Sir Hugh Greene 1860: 1473:Obscene Publications Act 1959 1421:The Last Temptation of Christ 854: 773: 444: 326: 5318:Portraits of Mary Whitehouse 5189:, Blandford, ISBN B0000CNC3I 2988:See also Ben Thompson (ed.) 2367:Quoted in Dominic Sandbrook 1848:, which mentions Whitehouse. 1525:government, particularly in 1411:Monty Python's Life of Brian 1194:proposed by Conservative MP 1109:Nationwide Festival of Light 659:, "the first 'television war 273:Nationwide Festival of Light 156:Nationwide Festival of Light 7: 4682:. BBC News. 18 March 1967. 4653:"Sir Christopher Staughton" 4055:Tracey & Morrison, p.12 3848:. Oxford University Press. 3669:Letter from Mary Whitehouse 3294:"Channel 4 Serial Attacked" 1836:Pigs (Three Different Ones) 1806: 1581:Whitehouse was appointed a 1393:screenplay. Home Secretary 1229:Royal Society of Literature 1165:had been asked to help the 990:In the Psychiatrist's Chair 830:Director-General of the BBC 341:Chester City Grammar School 118:Chester City Grammar School 10: 5393: 5352:Anti-pornography activists 5261:, Sidgwick & Jackson, 5194:Who Does She Think She is? 3114:. London. 10 August 2006. 2667:BFI Film & TV database 2399:, no.553, June 1966, p.453 1906:"Mary Whitehouse obituary" 1762:In 2017, in episode 15 of 1129:Who Does She Think She Is? 1085:Handyside v United Kingdom 859:Whitehouse criticised the 695:is shown reading her book 490:Sir Hugh Greene at the BBC 365:Student Christian Movement 253:Student Christian Movement 18: 5247:, Kingsway Publications, 5208:Whatever Happened to Sex? 5159:Ramsey Campbell, Probably 5020:16 September 2016 at the 4923:29 September 2011 at the 4712:13 September 2011 at the 4280:10.1017/S0007123400002064 3503:27 September 2016 at the 3208:Doctor Who: The Seventies 3029:, BBC Four, November 2011 2659:The Independent on Sunday 2211:13 September 2011 at the 1546:Video Recordings Act 1984 1341:Whatever Happened to Sex? 1059:The Little Red Schoolbook 617:Belsen concentration camp 201:Constance Mary Whitehouse 190: 170:Ernest Raymond Whitehouse 164: 143: 133: 123: 113: 94: 64: 52: 38: 19:For the comedy show, see 4967:6 September 2008 at the 4464:"The afterlife of Brian" 4133:14 December 2013 at the 4118:, 13 July 2012 (reprint) 3791:"Top shelf gathers dust" 3497:"Watching the detective" 3025:27 December 2011 at the 2654:11 November 2012 at the 2445:20 February 2015 at the 1975:12 November 2012 at the 1722:, alongside a reluctant 1496:Sexual Offences Act 1956 1469:Sexual Offences Act 1956 1397:explained, to cheers in 1327:, QC, the barrister for 983:Office of Communications 879:of the series' creator, 665:Royal College of Nursing 534:James Lawrence Isherwood 69:Constance Mary Hutcheson 5257:Mary Whitehouse (1993) 5245:Mightier Than the Sword 5243:Mary Whitehouse (1985) 5229:Mary Whitehouse (1982) 5206:Mary Whitehouse (1977) 5196:, New English Library, 5192:Mary Whitehouse (1971) 5185:Mary Whitehouse (1967) 5002:(subscription required) 4669:(subscription required) 4322:Tracey & Morrison, 4310:University of Leicester 4250:Tracey & Morrison, 4110:3 February 2017 at the 4013:(subscription required) 3972:7 December 2013 at the 3833:(subscription required) 3532:George W. Brandt (ed.) 3476:13 January 2017 at the 3451:(subscription required) 3387:17 October 2014 at the 3362:The Making of Channel 4 3311:(subscription required) 3275:10 January 2013 at the 3252:Documentary on the DVD 3095:Sarasota Herald-Tribune 3046:21 January 2013 at the 3018:Mark Lawson Talks to... 2999:13 January 2017 at the 2892:(subscription required) 2803:12 October 2010 at the 2734:"Vietnam on Television" 2418:16 January 2014 at the 2392:2 November 2012 at the 2104:(subscription required) 1822:"Mary Long", a song in 1389:carrying a copy of the 1362:The Many Faces of Jesus 863:adventure/drama series 4904:24 August 2010 at the 4882:15 August 2010 at the 4805:3 January 2015 at the 4781:1 January 2015 at the 4067:Tracey & Morrison 3948:9 October 2010 at the 3942:Obituary: James Kirkup 3796:16 August 2016 at the 3139:"The Brain of Morbius" 2144:1 October 2010 at the 1829:Who Do We Think We Are 1606: 1503:A Most Dangerous Woman 1317:, later GALHA and now 1125:Little Red School Book 1029: 373:Brewood Grammar School 333:Nuneaton, Warwickshire 5231:Most Dangerous Woman? 5171:Max Caulfield (1976) 4927:, Archive Hub website 4760:British Horror Cinema 4738:19 April 2017 at the 4613:19 March 2017 at the 4582:19 March 2017 at the 4082:Obituary: Denis Lemon 3966:"Protecting Our Lord" 3903:Ost, Suzanne (2009). 3701:19 March 2017 at the 3259:, BBC Worldwide, 2004 3193:19 April 2017 at the 2901:Quoted by Boris Ford 2351:19 April 2017 at the 2324:17 March 2017 at the 2247:The Confidence Course 2238:19 April 2017 at the 1604: 1449:The Romans in Britain 1429:The Romans in Britain 1371:shadow home secretary 1192:private member's bill 1024: 1004:psoriatic arthropathy 995:The Singing Detective 873:, in an obituary for 792:Genesis of the Daleks 679:Till Death Us Do Part 676:The situation comedy 426:Madeley Modern School 288:The Romans in Britain 5372:People from Nuneaton 5306:UK National Archives 4889:(blog), 10 June 2010 4733:"Let there be blood" 4638:6 March 2016 at the 4576:"Look back in anger" 4437:The Sunday Telegraph 4357:6 March 2016 at the 4337:Offensive Literature 4088:13 June 2012 at the 3740:Offensive Literature 3725:28 June 2011 at the 3674:2 April 2014 at the 3657:Offensive Literature 3575:7 March 2016 at the 3541:7 March 2016 at the 3368:6 March 2016 at the 3350:, 14 April 1984, p.5 3330:6 March 2016 at the 3069:3 March 2016 at the 2853:11 June 2011 at the 2847:Obituary: Dave Allen 2832:6 March 2016 at the 2783:, 28 July 1967, p.11 2739:28 June 2011 at the 2719:7 March 2016 at the 2694:6 March 2016 at the 2607:6 March 2016 at the 2569:7 March 2016 at the 2547:7 March 2016 at the 2509:6 March 2016 at the 2345:"The moral minority" 2160:Tracey and Morrison 1941:. 26 November 2001. 1888:29 June 2011 at the 1485:Mr Justice Staughton 1438:, the director of a 955:In 1988 she made an 798:The Brain of Morbius 763:" being featured on 471:Birmingham Town Hall 5048:1 July 2016 at the 5036:Ben Thompson (ed.) 4811:The Huffington Post 4561:Michael Billington 4377:. London. pp.  4141:, 15 July 1977, p.3 3953:The Daily Telegraph 2936:14 May 2015 at the 2761:The Violent Society 2093:. London. p. 8 2072:The Daily Telegraph 2066:6 June 2010 at the 1893:The Daily Telegraph 1681:Dixon of Dock Green 1667:played Whitehouse, 1644:University of Essex 1391:Many Faces of Jesus 1357:Jens Jørgen Thorsen 1219:in 1977 concerned " 998:. She claimed that 957:extended appearance 825:The Deadly Assassin 554:The Daily Telegraph 506:The Catholic Herald 430:Madeley, Shropshire 236:, she was termed a 234:social conservative 151:Social conservatism 5367:British Christians 5132:. 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