BBFC Podcast

In this episode BBFC Chief Executive David Austin answers questions from three BBFC twitter followers on topics including: working at the BBFC; banned films; and the classification categories

In this episode we discuss the classification history of the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Starring Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Lana Wood and Charles Gray, the film was released with an A classification in the UK in 1971.

In this Halloween edition of the BBFC podcast, we discuss the classification issues in Wes Craven's 1997 horror film, Scream. Please note this podcast includes descriptions of violent acts depicted in the film.

In this episode BBFC Chief Executive David Austin explains how the BBFC classifies depictions of drug misuse.

We answer a question from one of our twitter followers about why Zootropolis is rated PG, while the Jim Henson fantasy film Labyrinth (1986) is rated U.

In this episode we discuss the 1986 film Something Wild, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta.

We're joined by Richard Daniels and Sarah Mahurter from the Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London to talk about the classification history of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, plus the materials from the film preserved in the Stanley Kubrick archive.

In this episode we discuss the classification history of Victim (1961), a suspense film starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Sims.

In this episode BBFC Chief Executive David Austin, talks about how we handle, and try to avoid, spoilers in the BBFCinsight you see on the BBFC black card before a cinema film begins.

To mark 400 years since Shakespeare's death, we're using the podcast to delve into the files for some of his plays that were translated to the silver screen. In this episode we discuss Roman Polanski's Macbeth (1971).