ONLY men of a certain age, I suspect, will remember Whitehouse magazine. will wonder, did Mary Whitehouse have a point? Last Saturday, Samira Ahmed was the latest to do just that on Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse, the latest Archive on 4 (Radio 4), which looked into Whitehouse’s archives at the Bodleian library. “I grew up with the idea of Mary Whitehouse as a puritanical harridan permanently disgusted and obsessed with sex on TV,” Ahmed explained at the start of this hour-long retrospective. The lawyer who led her blasphemy case against Gay News was himself, it turned out, a serial abuser of young boys.

Source: The Herald March 12, 2022 08:02 UTC