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Here’s a few curios from the newspapers about The Mary Whitehouse Experience. First up, from the Dublin Sunday World, on 15th July 1990, there’s a review of what sounds like an horrendous episode of The James Whale Radio Show.

This is a review, from The Stage, of the TV show on 17th January 1991. There’s a bit about The New Statesman too, as a bonus.

I saw this at the Bristol Hippodrome.

I never saw Newman and Baddiel though. But here’s a review from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle on 7th November 1992. How about that for an opening line …

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