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.
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Interview With A Censor feat. John Kelleher (00:44:35)
In our last (for now) episode, we chat to John Kelleher who was appointed Irish film censor in 2003. When he left in 2009, the Irish Film Censor's Office had been renamed the Irish Film Classification...
Transparent Classification (00:39:55)
Censors have been replaced by classifiers, opaque silence by annual reports. We read recent annual reports from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and the Irish Film Classification Office...
Abject Grace: Bad Lieutenant (1992) feat. Rob Doyle (00:49:03)
This remarkable neo-noir, directed by Abel Ferrara, has never been certified by the Irish Film Classification Office (the new name for the censor’s office). Aoife and Lloyd Meadhbh are joined by autho...
Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969) (00:41:15)
In Sam Peckinpah’s film, standard Western tropes – outlaws, heroes, beautiful landscape – are used to interrogate an exhausted genre. He knows spectacular gunfights are problematic but did the cut ver...
A Celluloid Nasty: Peeping Tom (1960) (00:37:23)
One of Martin Scorsese’s favourite films and guess what? We agree, it’s brilliant. Contemporary audiences detested it, preferring to ignore why they derived pleasure from realistic, filmed torture and...
Anti-natal: Rosemary's Baby (1968) (00:38:45)
A horror fan (Lloyd Meadhbh) and not-a-horror fan (Aoife) agree that this unexpectedly feminist film did not deserve to be banned twice in Ireland. Caveat: Roman Polanski directed it.Rosemary’s Baby (...
The Full Gere: American Gigolo (1980) (00:38:47)
Ties, suits and sex - Paul Schrader's exploration of consumerism and Richard Gere's hotness was pruned of bad language and "sex scenes" by the Irish censor.American Gigolo (1980, dir. Paul Schrader) s...
Video Nasties (Part Two) (00:31:59)
What’s the worst celluloid crime committed in The Evil Dead: excessive violence or Bruce Campbell’s fringe? Lloyd Meadhbh (a fan) tries to persuade Aoife (a sceptic) to embrace this video-nasty classi...
Video Nasties (Part One) (00:35:23)
Lloyd Meadhbh rewinds the tape back to the 1980s, when a new film medium caused a new (ish) moral panic. Support usMerch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Rocky Road to Dublin (1967) (00:41:34)
How revolutionary was Ireland anyway? Journalist and director Peter Lennon asked how a nation birthed by rebels seemed to be run by Catholic priests. His caustic script allied to Raoul Coutard's capti...
Censorship by Sharpie (00:32:06)
Did you know DIY censorship was practiced by those outside the film censor’s office. Even after official censors vetted publicity material, some film posters showed too much skin, especially male arms...
The Devils is not a film for everyone (00:46:56)
Ken Russell's The Devils is definitely a film for us. Satanism, orgies, exorcisms - what's not to love? And it's a complicated censorship story of different cuts for different censors. Hosted on Acas...
Are you trying to censor me, Mrs Robinson? (00:37:30)
Banned, appealed, cut eleven times: The Graduate (1967) had a torrid time in Ireland. What narrative were Irish audiences allowed to see? And, Mrs Robinson, we stan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
(Un) Willkommen to the Cabaret (00:36:05)
A film beloved by our hosts that proved too much for the Irish censor. Was it Liza Minnelli's (as Sally Bowles) legs or men fancying other men? The answer is quite surprising. But then, so is writing ...
Ulster Says No, Absolutely Not (00:50:17)
Lloyd Meadhbh explains Northern Ireland’s special censorship sauce to Aoife. There’s cross-border agreement, even more censors than usual and a bit of flogging. Films:Ulster the Garden of Eden (1930),...
Don't mention the war (00:43:32)
War brings propaganda, and that means censorship. What happens if war is denied in favour of an 'Emergency'? We unpick why Betty Grable's legs were withdrawn from Irish cinema screens in 1941.A Yank i...
An Underground Film Scene (00:39:33)
Aoife's working title was 'Wildcard' – we went on a journey through vice-ridden streets (and garages) of Dublin city in 1954.Films:Smart Alec (1951) US 'stag' film starring Candy Barr Hosted on Acast....
Blasphemy! (00:44:17)
How did the Irish censor feel about Biblical epics? And how could a convent have ‘a sex atmosphere’? Where we discuss Mary Magdalene’s gold bikini and dangerously smouldering Englishmen. But also, El...
It Girls: Clara Bow and Mae West (00:45:29)
We investigate ‘It’, a type of sex appeal that raised the temperatures of cinema goers and censors in the 1930s. ‘It’ was personified in the screen personas of Clara Bow and Mae West but did you know ...
Caught in the Act (00:45:59)
Film censorship in Ireland is a hundred years old today. What were Irish cinema goers watching in 1923, and what would the Censor keep them from watching in the future? Find out in this bumper birthda...
Sadism: Michael Arlen, ‘Hell! Said the Duchess’ (1934) (00:48:57)
Why would Irish censors object to a satire of the English upper-classes? They probably wouldn’t but Arlen wrote something far creepier. With Dr Laura Ludtke.He's merciless on the role of sport in crea...
Gritty: Richard Wright 'Black Boy' (1945) (00:29:16)
There’s lots of indecency in this memoir – vile racism, horrific violence – but readers shouldn’t be protected from Wright’s rage and bitterness.On the floor of the US senate, a Theodore Bilbo said ...
Filthy Films: a Teaser (00:10:08)
What do you do when you’ve read a lot of smutty books? Watch dirty films, of course. This season is about films that annoyed the censors. And, to double your fun, there are now two hosts: Aoife Bhreat...
Libellous: what is indecency? (00:26:24)
When Patrick Mulloy, author of Jackets Green, heard his book was banned he did something unusual – he sued for libel. But why was this censorship trial held in London? This is a true crime special, bu...
Teasing: Mae West 'She Done Him Wrong' (1932) (00:48:26)
Mae West is remembered for her cracking one-liners but she was a helluva writer too. Guest: Dr Muireann O’Cinnéide. Her sexual persona that she creates in the film She Done Him Wrong means the Irish ...
