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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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Babes and Boobs: 'Pleasure Ground' (1961) May 21, 2020

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With a saucy cover showing lots of flesh, Hitt’s book was never going to be sold in Ireland. But did the text deliver on the smutty promise of the cover art?

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Convent Sex Crimes: 'The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk' (186) May 14, 2020

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Why would a censor in 1964 worry about a book published more than a century earlier? Perhaps a Gothic horror story featuring fornicating nuns and priests was just too much.

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Sex in Suburbia: Yates, 'Revolutionary Road' (1961) May 07, 2020

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This classic American novel critiques marriage, gender roles and masculinity. Was it sex or reproductive choices that attracted the ire of the censor?

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Sex and Soldiers: Heller, 'Catch-22' (1961) Apr 30, 2020

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Censored in America and Ireland, Catch-22 is a controversial modern classic. Does the shagging and violence titillate or make a point?

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The First Bonkbuster: Winsor, 'Forever Amber' (1944) Apr 23, 2020

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Forever Amber is the original bonkbuster, whose commercial success led to Peyton Place (1956) and Riders (1985). Banned in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Massachusetts as indecent, it sold millions of copies in the 1940s. Restoration England was the perfect backdrop for a lush, romantic romp but does the book deliver smut galore?

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One Little Orgy: Kerouac, 'The Dharma Bums' (1959) Apr 16, 2020

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Was Jack Kerouac a pilgrim or self-obsessed misogynist? Featuring an indecent orgy in the name of religion, this book was censored in 1963.

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Single Girls, Shagging: Jaffe, 'The Best of Everything' (1958) Apr 09, 2020

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A story of three single girls navigating the dating scene in New York was censorship-worthy literature in 1958. This 52-year-old book was rediscovered after it featured in ‘Mad Men’. It's a classic, but is it smutty?

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What a Wanker: Behan 'Borstal Boy' (1958) Apr 02, 2020

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What shenanigans did Brendan Behan get up to in prison and borstal between 1939 and 1941? He enjoyed baiting the Brits, warm cocoa, snuggly blankets and … other things. In this episode, I’ll tell you about the rude bits in a book whose banning in Ireland and Australia provoked derision.

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Censored Trailer Mar 20, 2020

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Filthy-minded historian and avid reader, Aoife Bhreatnach, searches censored books for smut, swearing and shagging. The Irish censor was infamous, banning 12,491 books and magazines between 1929 and 1998. Alongside the greats like Doris Lessing and Samuel Beckett were thousands of books, now mostly forgotten. Mediocre novels, sex manuals, true crime stories, pulp fiction, racy memoirs and queer literature: the Irish censor banned them all. Join Aoife as she reads like a smut-obsessed censor, looking for the rude bits in all kinds of books.

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