The Queen of Clean | No Sex, Please! | 1
British Scandal
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4.4 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In the early 1960s, a housewife from Birmingham is shocked by the changing tide of culture, and decides to do something about it. Mary Whitehouse goes up against her first adversary: the BBC and its liberal Director General, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene. In a battle for the future of the BBC, who will win?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British scandal at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:11.7 | Hey, Matt. Hi, Alice. Big question, but what do you feel about censorship? |
| 0:16.0 | I think so, a load of f***ing. I think it's peddled by |
| 0:19.3 | pernicious people who want to control what we think and say. I think it's effectively in a |
| 0:23.9 | assault on free speech and people who do it are absolutely f***ing. Totally couldn't agree more. |
| 0:30.0 | And it's just great to work on a platform where I'm completely free of it. |
| 0:35.0 | The 9th of September 1971, Westminster Central Hall, London. |
| 0:41.2 | From the lectern where she stands, Mary Whitehouse casts a rise across the packed hall. |
| 0:47.2 | Taking in the huge banners of support being waived, the sea of people raising their hand |
| 0:51.8 | skywards in joyful prayer. She could burst with pride. |
| 0:56.0 | The exploitation of sex and violence by various different branches of the entertainment industry |
| 1:01.4 | is the single greatest current threat to the nation's moral wellbeing. As Christians, |
| 1:07.8 | we can come together and say no to this. |
| 1:14.0 | Mary Whitehouse is the audience erupt. After she's finished speaking here, |
| 1:18.4 | she'll be marching to Hyde Park, where fellow Christian and good friend Cliff Richard |
| 1:23.2 | is due to play a set as the festival's star attraction. 25,000 people are expected to turn out. |
| 1:31.4 | But just as she's about to resume her speech, she hears a ruckus. Several men and women |
| 1:36.9 | charge into the back of the hall. Mary gasps as she makes out the words dorked across the banners |
| 1:42.5 | they're holding. Festival of blight. A surge of anger grips her. She knows immediately who |
| 1:50.0 | these people are. The newly formed gay liberation front. Mary spoken out against homosexuality a great |
| 1:57.3 | deal recently and has targeted several publicity campaigns and magazines produced by these sinners. |
| 2:04.8 | Mary stares in disbelief as more interlopers invade the hall's large balcony, |
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