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Mary Whitehouse, the campaigner who embarked on a one-woman mission to clean up British television, will be played by Julie Walters in a new BBC drama, it was revealed yesterday.
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story will bring to life the battle for morals that raged in the 1960s, the BBC said. Hugh Bonneville will star as Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the former Director-General of the BBC, whom Whitehouse held mainly responsible for the moral collapse of the country.
The animosity between the two culminated in a bitter fight to broadcast the word “knickers” in the Beatles song I Am the Walrus.
Whitehouse was an unknown housewife and teacher from the Midlands when she began campaigning in 1963.
Backed by her loyal husband Ernest (Alun Armstrong), Whitehouse set out to fight a war to stop “filth” entering family homes via the television.
The programme will be broadcast on BBC Two on May 28 at 9pm.
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My Auntie wrote this, i'm looking forward to watching it, i don't know much about Mrs Whitehouse but i guess i'm about to find out :)
Alex Coe, Doncaser,
I see that Julia has decided to have her memoirs written. Good for her. I look forward to reading that. If the Times serialise it I will buy it day. It is bound to be more interesting and stimulating than that of the ramblings of the Blair woman.
Bob, warrington, cheshire
Some brave person or group should take up Mary Whitehouse's activities to clean up TV and videos instead of making a film about her life. People bemoan the rise in criminal and disgusting behaviour in this country over the last 40 years but refuse to understand that TV/video teaches this behaviour.
SMITH, Kent,
Great choice. When I was growing up in Wolverhampton in the 1960's and 1970's it was a well known fact that both Mary Whitehouse and Enoch Powell were neighbours on the Merridale Road. Just imagine the over the wall conversations which must have brightened up each others day !!!!
Ian Payne, WALSALL,