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Series 10

Episode 4: Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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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. Show less

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