Censored
Aoife Bhreatnach
Censored is a podcast for the filthy minded. Explore banned films, books, magazines, newspapers and cinema like a smut-obsessed censor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 30, 2020 • 21min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 23, 2020 • 30min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 16, 2020 • 34min
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'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 9, 2020 • 43min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 2, 2020 • 38min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 25, 2020 • 27min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 18, 2020 • 32min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 11, 2020 • 2min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 4, 2020 • 30min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 28, 2020 • 28min
Amoral sex: Huxley, 'Point Counter Point' (1928)
One of the first books banned by the censor, this modernist classic is full of indecent and obscene ideas about sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
