Apology Sought For TV Sketch

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 13

Apology Sought For TV Sketch

(N.Z.PA. -Reuter— Copyright) LIVERPOOL, Feb. 28. Three M.P.s tonight asked for an immediate correction and a full apology from the 8.8. C. about a sketch in the television show “Not So Much a Programme,” last night. The sketch depicted a harddrinking Liverpool family, a Roman Catholic priest, and touched on the current controversy about the Roman Catholic Church’s attitude to birth control. If the apology and correc-

tion are not forthcoming, the three M.P.s have said they will put “searching questions” to the Postmaster-Gen-eral.

They are Mr S. Mahon, M.P. for Bootle, and two Liverpool members, Messrs W. Alldritt and J. Dunn. Mr Mahon, a former mayor of Bootle and a prominent north England Roman Catholic, said tonight he had been bombarded throughout the day by people who said they had been outraged by the sketch.

They had said it portrayed a considerable section of the population of Liverpool as “porter-drinking, sex-ridden horrors with no sense of responsibility.” Mr Mahon added: “It is an insult to every mother of a sizeable family in the area.” Mr Alldritt said tonight: “Unless the 8.8. C. is prepared to apologise immediately, and we feel they might have done so at once, we shall certainly have some searching questions to put to the Postmaster General later this week.”