17 NOVEMBER 1979, page 25

Mrs Moral Vigilante

Nicolas Walter Whitehouse Michael Tracey and David Morrison (Macmillan £7.95, 0.95) Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association are the best-known......

Blair's Boy

Paul Potts Orwell: The Transformation Peter Stansky and William Abrahams (Constable £6.95) In the Suffolk village of Southwold where George Orwell grew up, a plaque was placed......

Oakum Hokum

Jonathan Keates Dion Boucicault Richard Fawkes (Quartet 210.95) The 19th-century English theatre is never to be thought of without a shudder. Given the sheer, unredeemed......