Night Waves - 26/05/2008

In a special programme, Philip Dodd and guests discuss the subject of censorship. To coincide with the screenin of the television drama Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story - which tells the story of the tireless taste and decency campaigner and her battle to keep 'filth' out of the family home, Philip asks whether Mary Whitehouse was right after all and things have now gone too far. They trace the history of censorship in this country and ask whether society has become dangerously desensitized to sex and violence on our screens, and to what extent does the consumption of violent films, video games and pornography lead to violent behaviour and unhealthy attitudes towards the opposite sex? And with a seemingly limitless availability of such images, is it time liberals reappraised their position and recognised that the buck must stop somewhere?