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Sean ([personal profile] sqbr) wrote2008-06-04 08:19 pm
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The vulgar use of such words as 'basket' must also be avoided

The Green Book: BBC content guidelines from the 50s

All impersonations need the permission of the people being impersonated and producers must reassure themselves that this has been given before allowing any to be broadcast.


As this Independent article says, some of this stuff would get decried as "political correctness gone mad" by a lot of people today. And some of it is just amusing :)

*has rant about how political correctness is just the modern form of politeness I will not go into here*

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