The Trial Of Christine Keeler

[237SJ]

BBC 1 29th December. That should be interesting. First of 6 episodes. Will anyone else be watching?

[Jackdaw33]

As I remember she was not on trial. She was a witness in the trial of her pimp, Steven Ward.

[tonyav]

Who can forget that pic, even has a small boy at the time I remember it.
http://facsimilemagazine.com/2007/04/images/christinekeeler.jpg

[hereIam]

Yes, I'll be watching/recording both these programmes. Also the Ghost Story on BBC4 Christmas Eve, love a good ghost story ..

[Bobbisox1]

What was her crime? Sleeping with MPs
Lol @ Sharon, by today’s standard in Westminster that’s mighty tame

[gulliver1]

Well whats new about tory MPs jumping into the wrong beds . it's still going on now , to this day.

[Ken4155]

Don't remember Profumo actually being accused of being a Soviet spy, tonyav. He slept with Keeler who was in turn sleeping with a Russian who was a senior Naval Attache at the Russian Embassy. There were suggestions that 'pillow talk' may have been passed to the Russians by Keeler. Whether any secrets were spilled during said 'pillow talk', no-one knows, but Profumo had to resign because he lied to the house when denying that he had slept with Keeler.

[Rosie29]

Part of the fall out of that whole sorry business was the suicide of Stephen Ward who was somehow made out to be involved in the affair .

[emmie]

i might, it is a fascinating story and one that probably has more secrets to come out.

[horselady]

I remember not knowing what a prostitute was and my mum's squirming embarrassment as she tried to explain it to me. :-))

[Rosie29]

You suppose 6 episodes does seem a bit long but morals and standards and attitudes were so very different then that maybe time has to be given to sketching in the backgrounds of the main participants and setting the scene of a very different Britain.

[Rosie29]

"I suppose " not you suppose !

[shoota]

Tony: 'Who can forget that pic' - I have one of those chairs, not an original but a period copy.
What do I use it for?
Sitting on, what else...? ;-)