BBC Two has commissioned an original television drama about renowned taste and decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse – 40 years after her battle with the BBC Director-General over the Beatles’ use of the word “knickers.”

With Julie Walters starring as Mary Whitehouse and Hugh Bonneville playing her arch-enemy, BBC Director-General, Hugh Carleton Greene, Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story will bring to life the battle for Britain’s morals that raged in the Sixties.

Julie Walters said: “I am very excited to be playing Mary Whitehouse, and to be looking at the time when she attacked the BBC and started to make her name.” Read more & comment »