Mary Whitehouse founded the National Viewers and Listeners Association in 1965 in protest at a whole range of programmes such as the Play For Today series that dealt in real social issues and had titles such as Cathy Come Home about homelessnesses and Edna The Inebriate Woman about alcoholism and people sleeping in the streets.
She launched several prosecutions against publicly performed plays and magazines, notably against Gay News in 1977 and against the National Theatre production of Romans In Britain which contained nudity and homosexuality.
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