Diary 1973

Title

Diary 1973

Shelfmark

MS. 12864/12

Summary

Also contains diary entries for 29-31 December 1972 and for 1-2 January 1974.

Subjects discussed in this diary include: press coverage of Mary Whitehouse, broadcasting and morality; Britain joining the European Union; a Chuck Berry film on the BBC [probably a performance of song My Ding-a-Ling] (4 January); Petition for Public Decency; banning of ITV documentary on Andy Warhol (discussed in various entries 21 January-4 May); proposal to show film Ulysses on the BBC (26-28 January); speaking engagements, debates and interviews; Nationwide Festival of Light; National Viewers' and Listeners' Association; legal cases with Ink magazine regarding a cartoon of Mary Whitehouse, and Curious magazine regarding an article that had been promised by Mary Whitehouse but not delivered (14 February); BBC television programmes including Open Door and Play for the Day episode Baby Blues (7 December); the publishers of The Little Red Schoolbook by Søren Hansen and Jesper Jensen and European Court of Human Rights case Handyside v. United Kingdom (18 February); film Last Tango in Paris (16 February-7 March); obscenity summons made to rock band Lucifer (discussed in various entries 24 February-13 April); film A Clockwork Orange (8 and 27 April); Watergate scandal (6 May); Mary Whitehouse's illness with malaria; Cinematograph and Indecent Displays Bill (29 November-1 January 1974); film Blow-Out [ La Grande Bouffe] (12-31 December); Claire Rayner (18 December).

Date

1972-1974

Bulk, 1973

Language

English

Physical extent

1 volume