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Posted on October 29, 2020January 8, 2021

S3 E7 Queer, with cocktails: Moore, ‘Chocolates for Breakfast’ (1956)

A candid, haunting novel about the coming-of-age of a teenage girl. Full of decadent sexuality that would have given the censors a fit of the vapours.

2013 Harper Perennial Classics Edition
Posted on October 23, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E6 War is hell: Boell, ‘And where were you, Adam?’ (1951)

How did a subtle, refined war novel earn a ban? Perhaps the faeces and war crimes were more offensive than the barely-there sex.

Posted on October 14, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E5 Unzipped! Collins, ‘The Stud’ (1969)

This is a silly rather than sexy book. Why on earth was such a trashy, ridiculous banned when the censor ignored sex in serious literature?

The 1984 revised edition
Posted on October 7, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E4 Perverty Stuff: Salinger, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ (1951)

Holden Caulfield’s swearing and sex talk has offended many since 1951. This book is now a modern classic but why is a story of a poor little rich kid still read and enjoyed today?

Posted on September 30, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E3 Such badness: Hoult, ‘There were no windows’ (1944)

Hoult was banned more often than any other Irish woman writer. Only the censor’s beady eye could see filth in a novel about loneliness and dementia.

Persephone Books keep forgotten books in print – thanks to them I could read Norah Hoult for this episode.
Posted on September 23, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E1 Voluptuous Jazzing: McKay, ‘Home to Harlem’ (1928

A love letter to Harlem and it’s music, this book offended all kinds of people. McKay’s honesty about sex was brave and inflammatory.

Cover of 1987 edition
Posted on September 16, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E1 Low and Vulgar: Cross, ‘The Tailor and Ansty’ (1942)

A little book of folklore that became infamous. It was debated in parliament where nationalists denounced the elderly couple who were the subject of the book. But was the bull/cow story really that rude?

Posted on August 27, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 BONUS Smut: There’s something about Mary: Donleavy, ‘The Ginger Man’ (1954)

There was too much filth for one episode, so I made another one! I needed to rant about Mary, one of the women wronged by Sebastian Dangerfield. How did Mary, a strong woman with her own bank account and coalshed, fare when she joined Dangerfield in London? There’s shagging aplenty but it’s not a happy ending.

Posted on August 20, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E10 Filth and Faeces: Beckett, ‘More Pricks than Kicks’ (1934)

A riotous, whirling, silly read that hides it’s rudeness with classical allusions and puns. The blasphemous, punning and lewd title earned it’s ban but there was a profusion of filth within.

Mental cover image for a mental text
Posted on August 13, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E9 Rapey Noir: Keene, ‘Sleep with the Devil’ (1954)

The censor hated Keene’s pulp noir, banning his work many times. This taut thriller was full of violence but it was also a morality tale.

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