Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2022 UK TV documentary In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how successful was the original
cancel culture warrior?
Offsite Review: The BBC's faint praise for Mary Whitehouse A new documentary claims to be even-handed but can't quite manage it See
article from unherd.com by Charlie Bentley-Astor Banned! is a new BBC documentary that dubs the 1960s
teacher-cum-morality campaigner, Mary Whitehouse, the original cancel culture warrior. A flawed but vindicated woman is the headline. But was she a reactionary or a revolutionary? Was she right in her conviction that Britain was in a media-driven moral
decline? |