Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture

Coming up in part 2 we discuss the formation of the BBFC (that’s the British Board of film classification to you and I) the birth of VHS…
And the Video Nasties craze hits boiling point as infamous titles such as ‘Driller Killer’, The Evil Dead and Cannibal Holocaust cause public outrage!

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Britain in the early 1980s. A nation gripped by fear.
Not of war. Not of crime.
But of what was lurking... on the video shelf.
Cheap horror films. Violent exploitation movies. Unregulated VHS tapes passed from hand to hand…
They became known by one unforgettable name...
...the Video Nasties.
At the centre of the storm stood one woman - Mary Whitehouse
To some she was a campaigner. A Champion. A moral crusader.
To others a puritanical, self-appointed moral guardian…
She argued Britain was losing its moral compass...
Her critics argued Britain was losing something else...
It’s freedom.
The debate raged over who decides what we're allowed to watch?
And when does protecting society become controlling it?
Police raids… banned films… media-fuelled moral panic…
This is the story of a cultural battle that changed British censorship forever.
This is Video Nasties: Mary Whitehouse and the Battle Over Censorship.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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NEIGHBOURS - PART 4
A sun-drenched rival soap is launched over in Summer Bay - sadly they both go the way of the Dodo. But ultimately, what matters is the friends and neighbours we made along the way...

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NEIGHBOURS - PART 3
Scott and Charlene get married... what more is there to say.
Is this the biggest wedding of the decade?

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NEIGHBOURS - PART 2
We meet the iconic cast who made the show famous, and some bizarre celebrity cameos who have appeared over the years. And disocver the story behind the iconic theme music...

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