John Kelleher
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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And that was a pretty widespread attitude among authority figures at the time.
I mean, things changed.
And one of the things I find fascinating about this area is that, and I'm really glad to have had a part to play, if you like, in it,
is that what you saw or didn't see on the screen actually
reflected the sort of social and cultural history of our country as the years went by.
That was a really interesting aspect of street censorship.
totally my my all-time favorite movie casablanca it was first banned by the way but that was for a different reason it was banned under the emergency powers legislation because it was deemed to contravene our neutrality in the uh in during the second world war after the war as you say hayes passed it but he passed it with butts and the cuts
literally suppressed any reference to the relationship, the Paris romance between the Ingrid Bergman character, Ilse, and the Humphrey Bogart character, Rick.
Ilse had believed herself to be a widow.
In fact, she wasn't a widow because her husband, a freedom fighter, who she had thought had been murdered by the Nazis,
Actually, it was alive, and in fact, it played a big part in Casablanca.
But at the time, she believed that she had the relationship.
She believed herself to be a widow.
But in the eyes of the film censor, Richard Hayes, she was still a married woman, and therefore, that had to come out.
So the Irish audience never had powers.
I can remember that so well.
That's almost 20 years ago.
And the background to it was that this movie, Nine Songs, was the most sexually explicit film ever to be certified.
And that created quite a row at the time.
There were thousands of
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