Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive

In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now Mediawatch-uk.

For almost forty years, she kept up the fight against the programme makers, politicians, pop stars and playwri...