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Mary Whitehouse

September 2022

  • (L-R) Millie Small, Tina Charles and Brian Connolly of the Sweet.

    Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep! Why singalong 70s pop was edgier than you think

    A new book, In Perfect Harmony, explores the pop hits of the 70s, long derided as mainstream and meaningless. But there was more to it, argues its author

April 2022

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    What is driving the anti-sex backlash?

    Eva Wiseman
    From Mary Whitehouse to the new ‘puriteens’, there is a growing anti-sex movement gathering pace
  • Mary Whitehouse

    My herpes advice for Mary Whitehouse

    Letter: Stan Godfrey on almost losing his job after sending a stock reply from the health department to a prolific correspondent
  • Mary Whitehouse - 1981 Mrs Mary Whitehouse Tourssoho Fleshspots Today Also Pix Of The New Sign.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Clive Limpkin/Daily Mail/Shutterstock (1213565a) Mary Whitehouse - 1981 Mrs Mary Whitehouse Tourssoho Fleshspots Today Also Pix Of The New Sign. Mary Whitehouse - 1981 Mrs Mary Whitehouse Tourssoho Fleshspots Today Also Pix Of The New Sign.

    Surviving the Mary Whitehouse experience

    Letter: A BBC Two production of Zola’s Nana prompted a furious letter of condemnation, writes David Conroy

March 2022

  • Mary Whitehouse started her campaigning in the early 60s.

    TV review
    Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story review – this documentary will make you oddly proud of the BBC

    The corporation has put its toys back in the pram to deliver an even-handed, unmalicious documentary about the Christian campaigner’s fight against the evil Beeb
  • The online gambling website of 888 holdings is pictured surrounded by a deck of cards.

    Brief letters
    Don’t bet on gambling firms changing with paltry fines

    Brief letters: Betting companies | MPs could do better | Mary Whitehouse’s phoney morals | Talking Welsh
  • A black-and-white image of campaigner Mary Whitehouse with an unnamed partner campaigning against video pornography in 1984.

    Ahead of her time? Programme re-evaluates Mary Whitehouse’s legacy

    Radio 4 programme presented by Samira Ahmed argues case for nuance in judging campaigner mocked as ‘puritanical harridan’

February 2022

  • BBC One’s Cheaters

    Turn on or turn off: is there too much sex on UK television screens?

    Despite the post-#MeToo era, TV sex is hotting up and on the increase. What does all this mean for actors and audiences?

July 2021

  • Niamh Algar in Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor

    ‘Mary Whitehouse is living in my head’: how the video nasty scandal inspired a hot new film

    Censor, Prano Bailey-Bond’s horror debut, was inspired by the 80s home video scandal. She discusses art versus offence, while the BBFC’s head makes the case for its relevance today

September 2020

  • Owen Jones meets...
    From Mary Whitehouse to the proms: Owen Jones on how ‘woke’ became a dirty word - video

    By 2020 everything from the proms to sausage rolls were said to be at risk from 'woke' online warriors. But what does it even mean to be woke? Who were the original anti-woke campaigners? And who benefits and suffers when these manufactured culture wars divide us? Owen Jones – often described as 'too woke' himself – tries to find out

March 2020

  • Woody Allen

    Woody Allen’s memoirs: this is the behaviour of censors, not publishers

    Jo Glanville
    Hachette has succumbed to moral outrage in rejecting his autobiography

April 2017

  • After the seven-play Wars of the Roses in 1989, Michael Bogdanov won the Olivier best director award and went on to produce Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale and Beowulf.

    Michael Bogdanov obituary

    Theatre director and founder of the English Shakespeare Company whose 1980 production of The Romans in Britain led to an obscenity trial

March 2015

  • Roger Gartland, Greg Hicks and Michael Fenner in The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre, London, 1980.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 19 March 1982: The Romans in Britain obscenity trial dropped

    Originally published in the Guardian on 19 March 1982: Mary Whitehouse, who brought a private prosecution against the play’s director, felt that it was quite unnecessary for her to see the play to appreciate its insidious quality

November 2014

  • Sylvia Kristel in the 1974 erotic film Emmanuelle.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 6 November 1976: Tory MP seeks tax on sexy films

    Originally published in the Guardian on 6 November 1976: ‘If people must really see X or AA films then I think they should not object to paying a little extra for the privilege’ - Richard Body MP

October 2014

  • Mary Whitehouse image projected onto the side of Broadcasting House

    Media Monkey
    Broadcasting House has Mary Whitehouse experience

    Media Monkey: Mediawatch-UK projects image of group’s founder onto BBC building

August 2013

  • Nicholson

    Saturation point
    The C Word in cinema - a very brief history

    As Hit Girl swears again, Charlie Lyne remembers Hollywood's other broken taboos

May 2013

  • The Inbetweeners: surely it would have offended Mary Whitehouse?

    Shortcuts
    Sex on television: what is the right amount?

    The latest Ofcom survey of viewers shows that, for the first time, more than half of those over 65 think there is the right balance. But aren't programmes more explicit than ever before, asks Mark Lawson

November 2012

  • mary whitehouse

    Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive, edited by Ben Thompson – review

  • Mary Whitehouse

    Media Monkey
    BBC's unbelievable Mary Whitehouse experience

October 2012

  • Michael Bogdanov

    Ban This Filth!: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive by Ben Thompson – review

    An entertaining look at the correspondence of TV's self-appointed moral monitor. By Stuart Jeffries
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