Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

The case was the subject of a radio play Mark Lawson's The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.

As a result Mary Whitehouse became an object of mockery in the media especially by the BBC. The campaigns of Mary Whitehouse continue to divide opinion. Another private prosectution was brought against the director of the play The Romans in Britain which had been performed at the National Theatre.