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Posted on February 5, 2021

S4 E5 Original Sin: Spark ‘The Bachelors’ (1960)

An entertaining and elegant look at singledom in London that challenged censor’s ideas on sex and conception.

The novel opens with the single lads doing their shopping – the cover captures Spark’s wit
Posted on May 12, 2020December 13, 2020

S1 E7 Anon, ‘The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk’ (1836)

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. Or maybe this historical curiosity was packed in a racy, titillating cover?

 

Posted on April 26, 2020December 13, 2020

S1 E5 Joseph Heller, ‘Catch-22’ (1961)

An instant bestseller in Britain, ‘Catch-22’ was banned in Ireland from 1962 to 1974. There’s lots of sex in this book but the first sentence was the reason it was banned.

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