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To go back to Richard Hoggart. As a younger person he was called as a witness in the trial of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications act for publishing D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. He said that the book, with its explicit sexual scenes, rather than being pornographic, was puritanical. There is a video showing David Tennant (later ‘Doctor Who’) playing the part of Richard in this trial. Click here to see it. It seems that Simon, Richard’s son, the Guardian columnist, thought it a good representation of his father in the court scene.
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