[garinda]

Even in the historical plays there are rude jokes that the live audiences of the time would have wet their breeches at.

As for Victorian values...........on the surface the model of a decent moral society, underneath, out of a then population in London of five million people there was about 25,000 children working in prostitution, total hypocrisy.

I think parents should have an input into what their children are taught at school, and I applaud both Willow and her daughter's stand. I do however fear that it might result in the censoring of anything that might be deemed unsuitable not being taught at all.

Educating Rita is the story of a working class Liverpudlian mother who found a new life through the studying of literature at university. Her language reflected her background, and could be talked about in context with a good teacher.

Talking of swearing, it's another bug bear of mine that when bad language is reported in the press as a quote, it is always asterixed. We all know the words alluded to, and it just seems stupid because our brains read it as a swear word anyway. F***ing daft.