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Rock’n’Roll Years of Censorship
From the Sunday Herald

The Evil Dead, Sinn Fein and Ian Dury are to star in a new Channel 4 season on censorship made by a Glasgow-based independent producer. The Banned season, which will air in the early spring, will consist of four one-hour documentaries and 10 films which were previously banned by censors.

Blackwatch Productions won the commission to make the documentaries after successfully pitching the idea to Channel 4 late last year, in a deal thought to be worth about £500,000.

Channel 4 then decided to build a season of films around the programmes, and extended the commission to include five-minute introductions for each film. They will include The Idiots and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The documentaries are being dubbed the Rock’n’Roll Years of Censorship, and tell the story of censorship during the 1980s and 1990s. They include slots on the Video Recording Act 1984, which banned films like The Evil Dead and The Exorcist.

There are also reports about the ban on broadcasts of the voices of Gerry Adams and other Sinn Fein leaders; Ian Dury’s Spasticus Autisticus record; and the selective media coverage of the Falklands conflict. Each programme will go out at 11pm on consecutive week nights, with the films probably going out slightly later.

Andy Mackenzie, the commissioning editor for the series, said: “The theory is that you can learn more about our modern social history through what society banned than what it permitted.There is a fair argument to say that with the coming of the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, censorship seemed to thrive.

Taken from http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/

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spooky donkey

Evil Dead! They banned commidies? Next thing you know trading places gets a ban!

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spooky donkey wrote:

Evil Dead! They banned commidies? Next thing you know trading places gets a ban!

Check out the Edits and Bans section at http://www.withinthewoods.co.uk/

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