(photographs include a grotesque computer-generated portrait of Chris Morris, a shot of 'Tasscam Holiday' (promoter of 'Sutcliffe: The Musical'), some of the cast of the musical dancing on a stage, like girls, and a neon billboard of 'Sutcliffe! The Musical in the west end). This story begins in mid-February when a national broadsheet newspaper ran an article disclosing that Chris Morris's Brass Eye series would contain a sketch where Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, was …showed first 75 words of 4476 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4476 total…gh this programme was intended as a commentary on a hysteria-filled, panic-fuelled media (not to mention one which is prone to not knowing what it's talking about) it never stood a chance of having its case debated in anything like a mature fashion. And that's hysterical.' I have corrected numerous errors of grammar and sense, incidentally. The article also includes a 'Countdown to Outrage' box-out which gives us a little time-line of the affair.