Popular Culture
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley is set at Thackers, the fictional name for the Babington manor house actually at Dethick in Derbyshire. Narrator Penelope Taberner witnesses young Anthony Babington's growing involvement with Mary, Queen of Scots, as Penelope finds herself passing between her world of the 1940s and the year 1582.
On 2 December 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an Afternoon Play by Michael Butt entitled The Babington Plot and directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. with Stephen Greif as "The Presenter", done in documentary-style and told from the perspective of several of the conspirators - some genuine, some government spies that had infiltrated the group. Babington is portrayed as homosexual and having a relationship with Thomas Salisbury (played by Sam Barnett) and then Robert Poley (played by Burn Gorman).
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
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