Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008 TV Movie)

Hugh Bonneville: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene

Quotes 

• David Turner : I've just had a spot of bother in Birmingham - I was ganged-up on by a group of schoolgirls and that demented housewife.

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : Ah yes, of course. Now what *is* her name? No, don't tell me. Well you know what they say, old chap? Writing well is the best revenge.

  [he turns to walk away] 

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : Though garrotting your enemy with cheesewire runs a close second.

• [at breakfast, with his wife and two teenage sons] 

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : Pass the butter.

  Elaine Carleton Green : What's the magic word?

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : Pass the *fucking* butter.

• [Mary Whitehouse has just sent a supposedly obscene script to the Postmaster General who has ordered an episode of Swizzlewick which lampoons her to be pulled mid-way through its broadcast. Sir Hugh is fuming] 

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : Who? Who? I want the traitor flushed out. I want strict controls of all scripts issued to anyone and everyone - anywhere and everywhere. Contrive some memo to that effect.

  Miss Tate : Yes, Sir Hugh.

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : And! And! I am issuing a directive with immediate effect. No-one connected to the Corporation is to have anything whatsoever to do with that woman, either socially or professionally. Though Christ knows why anyone would want to!

  Miss Tate : Yes, Sir Hugh. You *do* mean Mrs Whitehouse?

  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : I don't want to hear her name.

• Sir Hugh Carleton Greene : The woman wants to censor us, Hill. If she had her way, all we'd show would be Andy bloody Pandy - and she'd stop him climbing into that basket with Looby Loo, let alone Teddy, lest some innocent child be corrupted by the whiff of puppet troilism. And bestiality, I suppose - or *would* it be bestiality with a teddy bear rather than a real bear?