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"So there I was slinging names about and accusing them of all sorts of things – dastardly deeds and vile occurrences!" Feuding and in crisis, Deep Purple combined two high-profile figures to create an anti-censorship classic

The story of a song that merged Mary Whitehouse's infamous clean-up campaign with tensions caused by Ritchie Blackmore

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‘Naked homophobia’: play revisits BBC’s first programme on gay men in 1950s

Original script from 1954 referring to ‘troubles of this kind’ to be brought to life on stage for LGBT+ History Month

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"John Lennon walked past me and said, 'Great record'": The story of the Alice Cooper song that began as a failed single on an album one critic called "a tragic waste of plastic" but finished as a worldwide smash hit

Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

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The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse review – Maxine Peake takes us behind moral crusader’s curtain

Deft and witty drama follows the religious conservative campaigner as she rails against blasphemy, porn and homosexuality

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‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse

She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it

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Alice Cooper: ‘We had censors breathing down our necks every inch of the way’

INTERVIEW: With ‘School’s Out’ and their gruesome stage show, they caused a moral panic in the Seventies; then they broke up. Now band and singer are reunited with producer Bob Ezrin on a new album. They talk to Michael Hann

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‘My testicles were on fire for weeks’: the sex movie craze that swept 70s Britain

In the 1970s, huge crowds – even royalty – packed cinemas to watch bawdy ‘sexploitation’ films. Ahead of a documentary, their stars talk pain, secrets – and being ‘the most famous bare bum in British screen history’

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Arlene Phillips at 80: on Strictly, scandal, survival – and still being a sizzling hot choreographer

She outraged Mary Whitehouse, worked with Tina Turner, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and is up for an Olivier for choreographing a smash hit production of Guys & Dolls. Will she ever slow down? Not likely ...

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By 1972, the wild rumours surrounding new shock rock superstar Alice Cooper were even freaking out Alice Cooper

"If I believed everything I'd heard about myself, then I'd kill myself" Alice Cooper told a journalist in summer 1972

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Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nuns

There are currently more than 3,000 secular LGBT+ nuns around the world whose mission – as part of a network known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – is to promote joy and liberation. And corner the market in crude puns. Rachel Flynn meets some of them

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‘Effectively a tool of Satan’: how the UK authorities were utterly terrified by TV

For decades, politicians feared that breakfast TV would turn Brits into zombies – or that broadcasting might decimate the workforce. This is the story of our long journey to 24-hour television

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'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

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Best podcasts of the week: Kim Kardashian, reality star turned legal activist, pivots to true crime

In this week’s newsletter: the reality star examines the case of Kevin Keith in The System – can she pull off another rebrand? Plus: five of the best podcasts about money

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Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep! Why singalong 70s pop was edgier than you think

A new book, In Perfect Harmony, explores the pop hits of the 70s, long derided as mainstream and meaningless. But there was more to it, argues its author

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What is driving the anti-sex backlash?

From Mary Whitehouse to the new ‘puriteens’, there is a growing anti-sex movement gathering pace

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Pic to pork – shifts in language from field to fork

Brief letters: Farm animals | Mary Whitehouse effect | The Guardian’s batting average | Silencing The Archers | When AI is helpful

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My herpes advice for Mary Whitehouse

Letter: Stan Godfrey on almost losing his job after sending a stock reply from the health department to a prolific correspondent

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TV tonight: Ellie Simmonds investigates the drug that could end dwarfism

Its supporters claim vosoritide could change lives, but the Olympic swimmer is not so sure. Plus, Matt Lucas is made to get baking. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The week in TV: Hacks; Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars; Falklands War: The Untold Story

Jean Smart is on top form as an ageing comic seeking inspiration from a younger one, Gordon Ramsay dials it down for once and the deadly blunders of the 1980s conflict are explored

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Surviving the Mary Whitehouse experience

Letter: A BBC Two production of Zola’s Nana prompted a furious letter of condemnation, writes David Conroy

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Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story review – this documentary will make you oddly proud of the BBC

The corporation has put its toys back in the pram to deliver an even-handed, unmalicious documentary about the Christian campaigner’s fight against the evil Beeb

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TV tonight: was Mary Whitehouse right?

Well-rounded documentary revisits the legacy of the ‘avenging angel of middle England’, while Holby City airs its final-ever episode. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Don’t bet on gambling firms changing with paltry fines

Brief letters: Betting companies | MPs could do better | Mary Whitehouse’s phoney morals | Talking Welsh

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Ahead of her time? Programme re-evaluates Mary Whitehouse’s legacy

Radio 4 programme presented by Samira Ahmed argues case for nuance in judging campaigner mocked as ‘puritanical harridan’

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