In this episode we complete our journey towards cinematic eternal damnation and pick up with the release of Monty Python’s Life of Brian in the U.K.

The Pythons come up against the likes of Mary Whitehouse, Malcolm Muggeridge, Mervyn Stockwood and founder of Christian Voice, Stephen Green.

Sauces

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Robert Sellers

Life of Brian: The Gospel According to Monty Python by Leah Schnelbach

Eric Idle’s Twitter Account

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190822-life-of-brian-the-most-blasphemous-film-ever

50 Years After John Lennon’s “Bigger Than Jesus” Quote, We Forget How Shocking the Rest of That Interview Was BY RUTH GRAHAM, Slate.com

How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, The, 18 March 1966

Chabad Rabbi Who Once Called For Rabin’s Assassination Passes Away

https://failedmessiah.typepad.com

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/28/artsfeatures1

http://menardstemarie.chez.com/mp/c3.htm

Robert E. A. Lee, Who Made ‘A Time for Burning,’ Dies at 87, New York Times

Iron Maiden Meets Monty Python By Bryan Reesman

VANDALS PLAGUE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH IN 'VILLAGE' By Charles Austin, New York Times

BBC's Malcolm Muggeridge groped women uncontrollably, claims book. The Guardian

Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation 1974-1987 by Jean Seaton

Not the nine o’clock News

Friday Night, Saturday Morning BBC2

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE’: THAT ONE TIME BRITISH SAILORS SANG MONTY PYTHON AS THEY WATCHED THEIR SHIP BURN By CLAIRE BARRETT, Historynet

In public he rails against immorality as the voice of Christian Britain but in private he is a wife beater, says his former partner By FRANCES HARDY, THE DAILY MAIL