Mary Whitehouse had government support
- Title
- Mary Whitehouse had government support
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 1 Jan 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:04:34
- Description
- Mary Whitehouse, a campaigner against showing sex and violence on television, talks to Paul Maurice about Cabinet papers for 1964 recently released under the 30 year rule which show many MPs were sympathetic to her views. She speaks of her campaign’s relationship with Hugh Greene, former Director-General of the BBC.
- Contributors
- Mary Whitehouse; Paul Maurice
- Keywords
- Government; Television; Violence; Censorship; BBC; Television programmes; Cabinet ministers; Sex; Cabinet (politics); Alec Douglas-Home; Communication control; Hugh Greene
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