Asked during an interview whether he [Kenneth Tynan] would allow the National Theatre to stage a play in which there was sexual intercourse, he had replied 'Oh, I think so' - and then added with characteristic mischief, 'I doubt if there are very many rational people in the world to whom the word "fuck" is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden.' It was, a Daily Express columnist declared with predictable irrationality, 'the bloodiest outrage' he had 'ever known'.
D. Hendy, Life on air: a history of Radio Four (2007), 101
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