{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/c446fed8-3792-4a23-9aef-4756e7190286/63ff67e324a4200011df65f1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Skeptical: Sean O'Casey 'I Knock at the Door' (1939)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ed7c4cf1734ba0e93d0e68/cb2b34e7-0272-4bb0-b1b1-3cfe0aad933c.png?height=200","description":"<p>What happens when an Irishman whose dramas offended audiences writes an autobiography? The state censors ban it. &nbsp;</p><ul><li>One censor asked: are you going to allow the truth to be told about everything to everyone without qualification and at all times? </li><li>On a practical level, reading O’Casey’s memoir like a censor is not easy.</li><li>Obviously Catholic censors don’t approve of Protestants – they were all apostates and heretics, on a fast train to hell – but they didn’t like anti-clericalism either.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;Fancy supporting the show? Do so here <a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/censoredpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.patreon.com/censoredpod</a> </p><p>Or buy stickers here: <a href=\"https://censoredpod.bigcartel.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://censoredpod.bigcartel.com/</a></p>","author_name":"Aoife Bhreatnach"}