Blasphemy at the Old Bailey - Season 1
1 - Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
Air Date: September 18, 1977
A re-enactment of the Whitehouse v Lemon court case. In 1976, British magazine Gay News publishes a poem, 'The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name', describing Jesus as a practising homosexual, and Christian activist Mary Whitehouse brings a private prosecution for blasphemy against its editor Denis Lemon.