Fellwanderer

I don't think we'd disagree much on that! Certainly, I would like to see good television - I watch virtually nothing new that would be classified as entertainment because most appears to be so poor.

I may be wrong but I think some of the ground-breaking television of the 60s, such as Cathy Come Home and TW3, felt the wrath of the misguided one.

We seem to agree on that as well - don't understand what the fuss is about JW.

All the best
FELL

A signature is no substitute for a life

nandywell

I've just seen a 2 minute ad for this program, I don't suppose anyone would know what the art deco style bulding is featured in the ad?

Mark O

It's the BBC's very own Broadcasting House!.........it's in Langham Place which is just to the north of Central London's Oxdford Circus



BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Walters plays Mary Whitehouse

Mark

nandywell

Cheers for that.

Steve Crook

Above the main door are statues of Prospero and Ariel by Eric Gill. Their choice was fitting since Prospero was a magician, and Ariel, a spirit of the air, in which radio waves travel. And you use an ariel to receive them



Mary Whitehouse probably complained about Ariel's being naked

Steve

john audley

Remember Steve that in the 'old days' nudes (at the Windmill!) had to say still
I appreciate that the BBC building is art deco and looks great from the outside. I have never been inside but the shape suggest to me the most inefficient use of working areas.

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!

CaptainWaggett

The new radio theatre is very nice. They're building a new BH just behind the old one. If you peek through the fence you can see a hole about 50 feet deep - clearly they're planning to save money by employing a race of mole-people.

Steve Crook

Efficiency? BBC?

Steve

Freddy

Good job she didn't go shopping at Lewis's in Liverpool.

'We meet under a statue exceedingly bare'




by Jacob Epstein

Regards

Freddy

john audley

I suppose Fell that she was pointing out the thin end of a very wide wedge that we now have to suffer. Personally I do not find nudity (if well placed and relevant) a problem it is the language and vile behavior that I think should be curtailed.
It is our front room after all and personally I would not invite most of TV people into the house to behave like this so why should they inflict the same whether I like it or not?
I know answers could be 'then switch it off' but why should I have to? I am sure most viewers feel the same. Honestly, just via switching channels one can be affronted with some remark or other, not so much embarrassing but annoying. A kind of Russian Roulette

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!

Steve Crook

The Radio Times did a survey to find out what their readers thought were the biggest problems on TV. This was probably as a part tie-in to this broadcast about Mary Whitehouse

Their main findings were:
Do you think there's too much swearing in TV?
Yes 69%; No 31%
So that's Gordon f*ing Ramsay out of a job

Do you think there's too much sex on TV?
Yes 52%; No 48%

Do you think there's too much nudity on TV?
Yes 40%; No 60%
Their survey didn't have an option for "not enough"

Do you think there's too much violence on TV?
Yes 74%; No 26%

Which offends you most?
Violence: 45%
Swearing: 32%
Sex: 10%
Other: 10%
Nudity: 3%

Steve

GRAEME

Everybody's threshold of decency is different. The point with MW is that she wanted to impose her own bizarre right-wing Christian narrow mindedness on everybody else.

As far as I can remember she never made "explicit" what she did consider good wholesome TV. I suspect that if she had outlined her own ideal schedule she would have lost supporters in droves.

She did once praise the Goodies, much to their chagrin!

Whitehouse was also astonishingly ignorant - she couldn't understand context, had no idea about artistic value. She was a censor for Jesus. Good riddance to her.

All men leak.

earlb

No - I keep falling off - Too damned uncomfortable. Have trouble with the horizontals.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

dremble wedge

That'll be these new flatscreens...

john audley

Steve - I had not seen this survey but it seems most agreeable to me

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!