OBSCENITY CLAIM

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 18

OBSCENITY CLAIM

I Investigation By 8.8. C. (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright' LONDON, Dec. 17. The 8.8. C. is to investigate 'a complaint of obscenity against the late night radio programme “Night Ride” in which an apology was made last month to the Prime Minister (Mr Harold Wilson) for remarks about his handling of the Biafra-Nigeria war. The Rev. John McNicol. aged 40. a Baptist minister and founder of the National Association of Drug Addiction, complained that last Wednesday’s programme was on the whole suggestive and at times verged on the obscene the “Daily Telegraph" [reported. He said yesterday: “I objected to a discussion with Yoko [Ono (friend of the Beatlc, (John Lennon) about her rcicent miscarriage. Ido not [think listeners who switch on | their radib late at night ex|pect this sort of thing.” Mr John Peel, who intro- | duces the programme, and | took part in the discussion. I said: “The radio has a responsibility to be open and honest, and too much time is spent at present on bland and trivial things. “A serious discussion like the one on miscarriages certainly in my opinion has a place in ‘Night Ride.’ ”