Mary Whitehouse
Constance Mary Whitehouse, CBE (née Hutcheson, 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was an English social activist known for her strong opposition to social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). A staunch social conservative, she was disparagingly termed a reactionary by her socially liberal opponents. Her motivation derived from her traditional Christian beliefs, her aversion to the rapid social and political changes in British society of the 1960s and her work as a teacher of sex education.
Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Whitehouse became an art teacher, at the same time becoming involved in evangelical Christian groups such as the Student Christian Movement and Moral Re-Armament. She became a public figure via the Clean-Up TV pressure group, established in 1964, in which she was the most prominent figure. The following year she founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, using it as a platform to criticise the BBC for what she perceived as a lack of accountability, and excessive use of bad language and portrayals of sex and violence in its programmes. As a result, she became an object of mockery in the media.
Songs of Praise (The Adicts album)
Songs of Praise is the debut studio album by The Adicts. It was originally released in 1981 on Dwed Wecords and was rereleased a year later by Fall Out Records. When the album was reissued on CD by Cleopatra Records in 1993, it included two bonus tracks which came from the Bar Room Bop EP. In 2008, the album was rerecorded by the band and released as the 25th Anniversary Edition.
Track listing
All songs written by Keith Warren and Pete Davison.
1993 Cleopatra bonus tracks
Personnel
The Adicts
Release history
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
The Mary Whitehouse Experience is a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts - David Baddiel and Rob Newman, and also Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, all of whom had graduated from Cambridge University. It was broadcast on both radio and television in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The show was named after Mary Whitehouse, a campaigner against what she saw as a decline in television standards and public morality. She became the target of mockery in the UK for her attitudes. The BBC feared Whitehouse would initiate litigation for the use of her name in the show's title, and for a period the alternative title The William Rees-Mogg Experience was considered.
BBC Radio One show
A radio pilot of the show was broadcast on 10 March 1989 on BBC Radio 1 and a series of 13 began on 7 April the same year. The format was devised by Bill Dare. The two pairings of Newman and Baddiel and Punt and Dennis were central to the show, with support from Nick Hancock, Jo Brand, Jack Dee, Mark Thomas and Mark Hurst. The show also included musical interludes from Skint Video and The Tracy Brothers.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Cast
- David Baddiel
- Steve Punt
- Rob Newman
- Hugh Dennis
- Melanie Hudson
- Robert Smith
- Adie Allen
- Doon Mackichan
- Nick Hancock
- Season 1
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Episode 1: (#1.1)
UK:3 January 1991...
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Episode 2: (#1.2)
UK:10 January 1991...
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Episode 3: (#1.3)
UK:17 January 1991...
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Episode 4: (#1.4)
UK:24 January 1991...
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Episode 5: (#1.5)
UK:31 January 1991...
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Episode 6: (#1.6)
UK:7 February 1991...
- Season 2
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Episode 1: (#2.1)
UK:2 March 1992...
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Episode 2: (#2.2)
UK:9 March 1992...
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Episode 3: (#2.3)
UK:16 March 1992...
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Episode 4: (#2.4)
UK:23 March 1992...
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Episode 5: (#2.5)
UK:30 March 1992...
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Episode 6: (#2.6)
UK:6 April 1992...
Mary Whitehouse
She don't like pornography
When it's on the BBC
She won't even look at me
Oh no no no she don't love me
I love Mary Whitehouse
She don't love me
I love Mary Whitehouse
She don't love me
I know she ain't that wonderful
She's only trying to be helpful
When she sees all those nudes
She'll speak out and say
That's very rude
Mary Mary they think you're crazy
How does your mind work
With silver bells
And ..... shells
