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Ban This Filth! - Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive (Paperback, Main)
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Ban This Filth! - Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive (Paperback, Main)
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In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she
called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured
into homes through the nation's radio and television sets.
Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school,
became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship:
the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now
Mediawatch-uk. For almost forty years, she kept up the fight
against the programme makers, politicians, pop stars and
playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer
of blasphemy and obscenity. From Doctor Who ('Teatime brutality for
tots') to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel and won)
to the Beatles - whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her
intervention by the skin of its psychedelic teeth - the list of
Mary Whitehouse's targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll
of honour. Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow
reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country's
intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more
real than they imagined? Ben Thompson's selection of material from
her extraordinary archive shows Mary Whitehouse's legacy in a
startling new light. From her exquisitely testy exchanges with
successive BBC Directors General, to the anguished screeds penned
by her television and radio vigilantes, these letters reveal a
complex and combative individual, whose anxieties about culture and
morality are often eerily relevant to the age of the internet. 'A
fantastic read . . . I can't recommend it highly enough.' Lauren
Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music
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