Items removed from 1988 diary, 1988
Press cuttings and correspondence on subjects including: Mary Whitehouse; the BBC; violence and sex on television; Eastenders; blasphemy; artwork English Heritage - Humpty Fucking Dumpty; television programme The Fear; [ The Play on One] episode titled Airbase; Mary Whitehouse's back injury; repeat of Dennis Potter television series The Singing Detective; Ronald Reagan; obscenity laws; appointment of William Rees-Mogg as Chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Council; film The Last Temptation of Christ; Spitting Image; film Rumble Fish.
Correspondents include Marmaduke Hussey, Sir Hugh Leggatt, Ronald Reagan, Lord Chalfont [Alun Gwynne Jones], Robert Runcie, Gerald Howarth, Brian Mawhinney, Bernard Braine, Margaret Thatcher, William Rees-Mogg, James Ferman, David Wyatt (on behalf of Prince Charles: CLOSED), Bernard Levin, James Mackay, Z.H. Hurwitz (on behalf on Yitzhak Shamir) and Lord Thomson of Monifieth [George Thomson], among others.
Also includes: typed copies of prayers by Queen Elizabeth I; copy of sheet music for song In The Garden.
Dates
- Creation: 1988
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Conditions Governing Access
Some material (one letter) is closed.
Shelfmark
MS. 12864/43
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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