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Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin
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Jolyon Jenkins recalls how the controversy surrounding a children's picture book that showed two gay men bringing up a small girl led to the now infamous Section 28.
Contemporary history series.
'Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin' was a children's picture book that showed two gay men bringing up a small girl. When a copy was found in a teachers' resource centre in 1986, it casued uproar and was denounced by the education secretary as 'blatant homosexual propaganda'.
Jolyon Jenkins traces how the book, and the policies of a small number of local authorities, led to the now infamous Section 28.
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Wed 5 Aug 2009
11:00
大象传媒 Radio 4
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