Chris Whitehouse
Synopsis:
'My mother was a snob, says Mary Whitehouse's son'. "On the eve of a drama about Mary Whitehouse the zealot clean-up TV campaigner, her youngest son launches an astonishing attack on the mother he didn't talk to for 15 years
Chris Whitehouse last saw his mother a couple of days before she died.
They hadn't spoken for more than 15 years - following his 1983 arrest for cannabis possession - and he was stunned to discover that age had not mellowed her.
'She was 91 years old, but she was still convinced she could make a difference, she still thought that all of society's ills could be undone and that we could return to this forgotten, golden time which ceased to exist long ago,' says 61-year-old Chris. ..."
- Publish date:
- 28 May 2008
- Author:
- Helen Weathers
- Source:
- Daily Mail
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