Censored

By Aoife Bhreatnach

Censored is a podcast for the filthy minded. Explore banned films, books, magazines, newspapers and cinema like a smut-obsessed censor.

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The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.

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August 06, 2020 Queer Ireland: Broderick, 'The Pilgrimage' (1961)
Is it a book about a promiscuous wife, a pilgrimage or queer life in 1960s Ireland? Banned for indecency and blasphemy, Broderick's short novel is a multi-layered text.
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50min
July 30, 2020 Bestial Behaviour: Endore, 'The Werewolf of Paris' (1933)
Endore combined violence and blasphemy in this classic of the werewolf genre. It’s hard to know whether the radical politics or freaky sex most offended the censor.
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22min
July 23, 2020 Love, not sex: Wallace, 'The Chapman Report' (1961)
America was horrified when the Kinsey report proved that women were sexually transgressive. Wallace’s book trashed Kinsey but it still too sexy for the Irish censor.
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31min
July 16, 2020 Lesbionic Lit: Highsmith, 'Carol' (1952)
Is it a subversive lesbian romance or a psychological thriller? The hetronormative censor saw a dangerous text with a 'general tendency to deprave'.
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35min
July 09, 2020 Evil Contraception: Stopes, 'Married Love' (1918)
Marie Stopes' sex manual was banned for 50 years. Her promotion of contraception was radical in 1918 but it remained too controversial for the Irish state until 1980.
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43min
July 02, 2020 Pure filth: Donleavy, ‘The Ginger Man’ (1955)
Was it literature or porn? With sex on nearly every page, it wasn’t surprising this Irish novel was banned for decades.
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38min
June 25, 2020 Thrusting ecstasy: Nin, 'A spy in the house of love' (1954)
A novel that explores gendered notions of sex and love with some dodgy sex metaphors.
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28min
June 18, 2020 A lot of ridin': Keane, 'Two Days in Aragon' (1942)
A Big House novel where ordered tennis parties are subverted by fucking in the fields and bondage in the basement.
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32min
June 11, 2020 Welcome to Season Two
From great Irish writers to sex manuals, Aoife Bhreatnach will search for smut in ten more banned books. Season two will include dodgy sex metaphors and werewolves.
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3min
June 04, 2020 Freaky Foreigners: Murdoch, 'The Flight from the Enchanter' (1956)
Why is so hard to find sex in a book saturated with sexual tension? Trigger-happy censors overestimated the filth in this rich and inventive novel.
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31min

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