In this episode we complete our journey towards cinematic eternal damnation and pick up with the release of Monty Python’s Life of Brian in the U.K.
The Pythons come up against the likes of Mary Whitehouse, Malcolm Muggeridge, Mervyn Stockwood and founder of Christian Voice, Stephen Green.
Sauces
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Robert Sellers
Life of Brian: The Gospel According to Monty Python by Leah Schnelbach
Eric Idle’s Twitter Account
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190822-life-of-brian-the-most-blasphemous-film-ever
50 Years After John Lennon’s “Bigger Than Jesus” Quote, We Forget How Shocking the Rest of That Interview Was BY RUTH GRAHAM, Slate.com
How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, The, 18 March 1966
Chabad Rabbi Who Once Called For Rabin’s Assassination Passes Away
https://failedmessiah.typepad.com
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/28/artsfeatures1
http://menardstemarie.chez.com/mp/c3.htm
Robert E. A. Lee, Who Made ‘A Time for Burning,’ Dies at 87, New York Times
Iron Maiden Meets Monty Python By Bryan Reesman
VANDALS PLAGUE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH IN 'VILLAGE' By Charles Austin, New York Times
BBC's Malcolm Muggeridge groped women uncontrollably, claims book. The Guardian
Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation 1974-1987 by Jean Seaton
Not the nine o’clock News
Friday Night, Saturday Morning BBC2
ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE’: THAT ONE TIME BRITISH SAILORS SANG MONTY PYTHON AS THEY WATCHED THEIR SHIP BURN By CLAIRE BARRETT, Historynet
In public he rails against immorality as the voice of Christian Britain but in private he is a wife beater, says his former partner By FRANCES HARDY, THE DAILY MAIL
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