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Blasphemy at the Old Bailey

Country: UK, Language: English, 50 mins

  • Director: Hugh David
  • Producer: Daniel Wolf

CGiii Comment

A fascinating look at LGBT recent history...

How a pugnacious and audacious woman - Mary Whitehouse - wreaked havoc...on the media, the creative industries and life in general...just because she didn't approve.

Mrs Whitehouse...the world is a better place without you and your hateful contagion.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In 1977, Gay News, UK, was committed to trial at the Old Bailey for publication of a blasphemous poem, entitled "The Love That Dare Speak its Name" by James Kirkup, which featured a Roman centurion having sexual fantasies about Christ on the cross. Media morals campaigner, Mary Whitehouse, initiated the charge against Gay News for the publication of a blasphemous poem. The programme features re-enactments of the scenes in court as the trial progressed, as well as interviews with Mary Whitehouse and Gay News editor, Denis Lemon.

Cast & Characters

John Beardmore as The Court Usher;
Donald Eccles as His Hon. Judge King-Hamilton QC;
Peter France as Himself - Reporter;
Terrence Hardiman as Mr. John Smyth;
Peter Machin as Denis Lemon;
Norman Rodway as Mr. John Mortimer QC;
Norman Rutherford as The Clerk of the Court;
Chris Sanders as The Foreman of the Jury;
Gareth Thomas as Mr. G. Robertson;
Mary Whitehouse as Herself - Documentary Interviewee