At about 08:15 a presenter, in a joke based on a pornographic movie, mentioned, as part of what was intended to be a comical story, intimate acts performed in the movie, including oral sex, bestiality and so-called “golden showers”.
On a re-hearing of the matter, the Commission held that there was insufficient evidence that a large number of children was in the audience on that date, since both public and private schools within the area reached by the Respondent were open on the relevant date. The rule concerning children was, accordingly, not transgressed.
Secondly, it was held that the references, although in questionable taste and coarse, also did not reach the level of “indecency or obscenity or offensiveness to public morals,” since details of the acts were not conveyed.