24 September 2013
Perhaps even Kenneth Tynan would have blushed hearing the last episode of Stephen Fry’s Radio 4 show, Fry’s English Delight, which aired last night. Entitled WTF? it explores the use of the word “f**k” — the Londoner counted around 100 uses of the word in the programme.
In fact, so remarkable is the profusion of the word throughout the programme that there is a YouTube mash-up of the broadcast, in which all the occurences of the words are spliced together. Tynan was reputed to be the first person to say “f**k” on television in 1965 to the horror of the nation. How has the great British public taken to Fry’s programme? “There were only five complaints,” says a spokesman for the BBC.
