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Cultural Censorship

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News North America

Mary Beard and her panel of guests - Peter Hitchens, Shappi Khorsandi and Giles Fraser - discuss censorship in culture. In the year of the 30th anniversary of the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie following the publication of The Satanic Verses, Mary talks to playwright Jo Clifford about her production The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, which centres on a transgender Jesus, and which has sparked protests both in the UK and Brazil. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Mary Beard
Series Producer:
Mark Crossan
Executive Producer:
Tanya Hudson

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Front Row

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