Programmes (Violence and Brutality)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wireless and Television – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 7 Rhagfyr 1960.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr Reginald Bevins Mr Reginald Bevins , Liverpool Toxteth 12:00, 7 Rhagfyr 1960

My hon. Friend may or may not be right in his view, but his Question asks me to direct the B.B.C. and the I.T.A. to refrain from showing violence on the television screen. That, in fact, would mean a ban on some of the greatest British literature, including most of Shakespeare—and most of Bernard Shaw, too.