Filth. The Mary Whitehouse Story...
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That wasn't a dig at you. The BBC has done several of the "dramas presented as documentaries" and they repreatedly waste a good story.
Whatever your thoughts on Mary Whitehouse (and there was at least a little merit in her arguments back when it started off) the drama ignored the truth in favour of cheap laughs. It's just a quick potter through a sequence of events with a bit of spin for good measure - no real consideration of motivation or justification. The real story, especially rationalised from the modern perspective (the current moral viewpoint, programmes like "Take Me Out" aired in primetime) against the standards of the 1960s would probably be eye-opening.
They did the same with the Thatcher one. A proper BBC4 three hour documentary covered similar ground, and again, the real creation of the Iron Lady was far more interesting.
Whatever your thoughts on Mary Whitehouse (and there was at least a little merit in her arguments back when it started off) the drama ignored the truth in favour of cheap laughs. It's just a quick potter through a sequence of events with a bit of spin for good measure - no real consideration of motivation or justification. The real story, especially rationalised from the modern perspective (the current moral viewpoint, programmes like "Take Me Out" aired in primetime) against the standards of the 1960s would probably be eye-opening.
They did the same with the Thatcher one. A proper BBC4 three hour documentary covered similar ground, and again, the real creation of the Iron Lady was far more interesting.
HiRich said:
Except it's a pack of lies and totally unrepresentative of what it claims to portray.
A whole pack of lies?This review say's it was written as a comedy.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_an...
I will be plussing this.
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